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early collections specimens bagged on his hunting expeditions in 
Wisconsin and in the south, where he served in defense of the 
Union from the beginning of the civil war until November, 1863. 
He joined Company C of the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry, as a pri- 
vate, was promoted to the positions of corporal, sergeant and sec- 
ond lieutenant; then joined the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Infan- 
try as captain of Company C, and became major of that regiment. 
He took part in the Peninsula campaign, the siege of Yorktown, 
and the battle of Williamsburg, where he was wounded ; also in 
all the battles in which the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin was engaged 
until the time of his resignation on November 28, 1863. 
Actively interested in all cultural endeavors, after his return 
from the field, he became a member of our society in 1866 and 
remained true to it until the day of his demise, which occurred 
at his home in ]^Iilwaukee on December 23, 1901, after a success- 
ful business career as a pharmacist, and founder and head of the 
wholesale drug firms of Baumbach Rosenthal^ Charles Baum- 
bach Company, and Baumbach, Reichel & Company. 
Charles von Baumbach will be remembered by his comrades 
in arms, by the older members of our society, and a host of other 
friends, as a genial companion and public-spirited citizen. 
ADAM cox RATH. 
This name first appears on the membership list of our society 
in 1881. At the time of his premature death, at the age of 52 
years, on December 19, 1901, he had therefore been a member for 
twenty years. 
Graduated with high honors from the Philadelphia College of 
Pharmacy on March 11, 1873, he became one of the most studious 
and enthusiastic of his profession, interested not only in materia 
medica, but especially in botany, his favorite branch of science, 
and in archeolog}'. 
On April 3, iSSi, he was elected one of the directors of botany 
and was re-elected many times in subsequent years. The society's 
museum, now the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, re- 
ceived many gifts from him, particularly for the herbarium. He 
gave much attention to the observation of alien plants introduced 
and naturalized in Wisconsin and contributed to the known flora 
of the state a number of species he first discovered. He con- 
tributed many papers and shorter communications at the meetings 
of our society. 
For many years he was associated with Hon. Chris. Widule 
in the drug firm of \\'idule & Conrath. As a member of the State 
