Lawson—Thure Kumlien. 
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Leyden, and Professors J. E. Gray, Alfred Newton, and H. E. Dresser of 
England. In this country he corresponded with nearly every prominent 
ornithologist and botanist up to within the last six or eight years of his 
life. In 1867 he was appointed teacher in Albion Academy, a position 
which he held till 1870. Later he formed the collections for the State 
Normal Schools and for the State University. From 1881 to 1883, Mr. 
Kumlien was employed by the Wisconsin Natural History Society. For 
the past five years he has been Conservator to the Milwaukee Public 
Museum" ( 3 ). 
In Birds of Wisconsin, by Ludwig Kumlien and N. Hollister, 
mention is made in the sources of information: 
“Added to this, and perhaps or even greater value has been the use of 
the extended, accurate and perfectly authentic notes of the late Thure 
Kumlien, covering a period of constant residence in the state of nearly 
forty-five years, from 1843 to 1888’( 16 ). 
In Studies in Plant Distribution by Ernst Bruncken (Bull. 
Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc. 2 : 151, 1902), there is a list of plants from 
Jefferson County collected by Thure Kumlien for the Milwaukee 
Museum, a work “mostly done forty and more years ago”—1862 
and before. The Two Rivers list names one plant .found there 
by Thure Kumlien. 
Spencer Fullerton Baird, a noted American ornithologist and 
author, wrote Kumlien, August 30, 1880: 
“Would you consider twenty dollars sufficient compensation for your 
swan? I shall be very glad to have it as an important addition to the 
Museum of the Smithsonian Institute". 
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The offer was accepted, and the trumpeter swan is still pre¬ 
served in the National Museum at Washington. 
Kumlien furnished to the herbarium of the Public Museum of 
the city of Milwaukee 163 identified specimens of the plants and 
flowers of Wisconsin included under numbers from 26 to 1726, 
“thereby contributing greatly to the value of the museum’s her¬ 
barium” (17). 
“A new museum is being built in Stockholm (1913) which is to have 
many of Thure Kumlien’s specimens’^ 18 ). 
He wrote on one occasion in 1861 that, 
“having more than twenty years’ experience in collecting and prepar¬ 
ing specimens of natural history for museums”, 
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