BOTANISTS OF OHIO. 135 



There is a lonely grave in Guatemala where rests the 

 body of William Ashbrook Kellerman, Ph. D., who 

 died of malarial fever March 8, 1908. He was State 

 Botanist at the Ohio State University, and it was 

 while conducting explorations in mycology that he 

 had sacrificed his life. He was a man who loved his 

 work, and in thought and life grew close to nature. 



The American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science met at the Ohio State University in Co- 

 lumbus, August 21, 1899, celebrating the following 

 day in honor of Ohio's noted botanists, living and 

 dead. 



It was my good fortune in youth to meet the digni- 

 fied and thoughtful William Starling SuUivant in Co- 

 lumbus and to know of his refined family life; also 

 Hon. Joseph SuUivant, his brother; to meet Leo Les- 

 quereaux and receive a smile from his beautiful dark 

 eyes, hearing from those about him expressions of 

 their love and reverence; and in later life, when I 

 took up the study of botany, to be aided by the patient 

 and genial help of Prof. W. A. Kellerman, of the Ohio 

 State University. 



Dr. Kellerman was bom in Ashville, Ohio, in 1851. 

 He was a graduate of Cornell University in 1871, and 

 in 1881 received the degree of Ph. D. at the University 

 of Zurich. He occupied important positions in Wis- 

 consin State Normal School, Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College, and Kansas State Experimental Sta- 

 tion. He came to Ohio State University in 1891. 



He was the founder of the Journal of Mycology 

 and the Ohio Mycological Bulletin. He was the 



