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Bulletin Wisconsin Natural History Society. [Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2. 
Mr. J. R. Heddle then addressed the society on “Some Diseases of 
Plants caused by Parasitic Fungi,” this paper being illustrated by 
lantern slides and drawings. 
The meeting then adjourned. 
HENRY L. WARD, 
Sec’y pro tem. 
IN MEMORIAM. 
By the death of Karl Herman Doerflinger in Bradentown, 
Florida, November 9th, 1911, the Wisconsin Natural History 
Society lost one of its earliest and in some regards one of its most 
notable members. 
Karl Herman Doerflinger was born in 1843 i n small town 
of Ettenheim in Baden, Germany. His father, Karl Doerflinger, 
a political refugee of the revolutionary period of 1848, came to 
America with his family in 1850. Attracted by the large colony 
of his fellow refugees at Milwaukee he brought his family here. 
Young Doerflinger was then in his sixth year. At this age he 
made his first acquaintance with the three R’s, under the guidance 
of private tutors and of his parents. When ten years of age he 
entered the German English Academy, (founded in 1851). Here 
he continued an adept pupil for four years. These and later years 
spent under the influence of and in intimate association with that 
thorough, efficient and stimulating teacher, Peter Engelman, left 
upon young Doerflinger a deep and lasting impression and did 
much in moulding his future career. 
Thrown upon his own resources at the conclusion of his school 
years, he started his battle thus early in life. Fates seemed to be 
against him, and after shifting about for a time and driven by 
want and pecuniary distress, he sought the then “Golden West,” 
hoping there to make his fortune. His stay was terminated by 
the call for volunteers at the opening of the Civil war. Then 
eighteen years of age, he returned and enlisted in the Twenty- 
