Lawson—Thure Kumlien. 
685 
Governor Alva Adams of Colorado, who knew him in youth, 
wrote: 
“Kindness is the characteristic I best recall. I was but a boy when I 
knew him. As I remember him, he was such a man as I would today 
like as a companion to go up Into the mountains to tread its ways of 
river and wilderness streams, to study the trees, flowers and birds. He 
knew and loved nature. He was her interpreter. Simple as a child 
among men, he was wise in the works of God. As a professor of its 
‘“Out-ofdoors” he ranks with the masters” ( 27 ). 
NOTES 
a Document in possession of Mrs. Angie Kumlien Main, Fort Atkinson, Wis¬ 
consin. 
2 Jefferson County Union, August 17, 1888. 
3 Necrologue by W. M. Wheeler, as a supplement to the annual report of the 
trustees of the Milwaukee Public Museum, 1888. “Life of Thure Kumlien”. 
See notes 5 and 8. Sundevall, Boheman, and Loven were connected with the 
Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden. 
4 “Sketch of Life of Prof. Thure Kumlien, A. M.” by Prof. Edward Lee 
Greene, Pittonia, vol. 1, part 5, October 1888, reprinted in Albion Campus, June, 
1891. Greene was professor of botany at the University of Notre Dame when he 
died, and left his library and collections to that institution. 
8 “On the rapid disappearance of Wisconsin wild flowers”, etc. Paper read 
by Thure Kumlien before the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 
published in the Transactions of the Academy, vol. 3, p. 56, 1876. A typo¬ 
graphical error in this paper makes his name read “Kumlein”. 
6 Th. M. Fries, whom I suppose to be a son of Prof. Elias Fries, writing to 
O. A. Linder of Chicago, from Upsala, Sweden, December 6, 1908, speaks 
“concerning Thure Kumlien whom I well remember since the time that he 
(in the beginning of the 1840’s) visited in my parents’ home.” He also writes 
that there are biographical notations on Thure Kumlien “preserved in the na¬ 
tional archives at Vestgotha.” Also “a letter is found there from—”. As the 
letter did not complete the sentence, the information is incomplete. He adds: 
“Besides this I have searched through my father’s (Elias Fries’) scientific 
correspondence file which has been donated to the library of the University 
of Upsala. In this are found eight letters, all quite lengthy, but were written 
during the beginning of the 1850’s and are almost exclusively concerned with 
collected plants. As far as I know, the correspondence of Prof. C. J. Sundevall 
has been destroyed ; otherwise there would undoubtedly have been found con¬ 
siderable of interest in it.” 
7 From unpublished paper by Oliver A. Linder, Chicago, and memoranda fur¬ 
nished him from Sweden. See note 4. 
8 Letter to the author by T. V. Kumlien, Fort Atkinson. 
9 Letter by Thure Kumlien written to his son in reference to Gerhard Von 
Yhlen. 
10 A private paper by T. V. Kumlien in possession of Mrs. Angie Kumlien 
Main. 
n “Commemorative biographical record of counties of Rock, Green, Iowa, 
Lafayette, Wisconsin”, pp. 89-90, Chicago, 1901. 
12 Certificate of marriage. 
