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was on board the ill-fated steamer Ruth when destroyed by fire, and 
g distance, the exertion proved too much for 
his emaciated frame. He went on to New Orleans, and returned to 
St. Louis two weeks ago last Monday; from which time he passed 
into a rapid decline, being conscious from the first that he could 
not recover, 
Dr. Shumard was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the 24th 
of November, 1820, and was, consequently, in his 49th year. His 
father was a merchant, but he inherited his scientific tastes from 
his maternal grandfather, Mr. Getz, well known as an inyentor, 
and the maker of delicate scales used in the Philadelphia mint. His . 
father afterward moved to Cincinnati, and while living there Dr. 
Shumard graduated at Oxford, Ohio; returning to Philadelphia, he 
father then moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where young Shumard 
completed his medical studies in 1846. He th 
DeVerneuil, when those distinguished savans were in Louisvill 
and the last named manifested his appreciation by the presentation 
of his great work on the Geolo y of Russia. ; 
e was then apecries by Dr. David Dale Owen as var 
of Kentucky,” which abounded in original observations and made 
his name familiar to European geologists. : 
Th 1850, Dr. Shumard was appointed by Dr. John Evans, to aid 
Im in a geological reconnoissance of the territory of Oregon of 
cupied ] i king out the reports on paleontology for 
wpled nearly a year in making P ss loyed under 
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of 1858, when he was a pointed State Geologist for Texas, and 
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made a reconnoissance of almost the entire eastern and middle por- 
