Memorial Address—Frederick Pabst. 
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The following is a list of the titles of his published papers. 
A very large amount of work was left in an unfinished con¬ 
dition, and it is hoped that of this at least the portions relat¬ 
ing to his further studies on starch formation in the algae, for 
which the drawings' were' largely completed, may he prepared 
for publication. 
“The Development and Function of the Cell-Plate in Higher 
Plants.”—The Botanical Gazette, Vol. XXX, p. 73, 1900. 
“Swarmspore Formation in Hydrodictyon Utriculatum Roth.” 
—The Botanical Gazette, March, 1901. 
“Starch Formation in Hydrodictyon Utriculatum.”—Annals 
of Botany, Vol. XV, p. 619, 1901. 
“Starch Formation in Cladophora.”—Science, March 21, 
1902. 
“Cell Division in Riccia Fluitans.”—Science, March 21, 1902. 
“Development and Structure of the Swarmspores of Hydro¬ 
dictyon.”—Trans. Wis. Acad, of Sci., Arts, and Letters, 
Vol. XIII, p. 486, 1902. 
“The Xature and Function of the Pyrenoid.”—Science, 
March 20, 1903. 
R. A. Harper. 
FREDERICK PABST. 
Frederick Pabst, the son of Gottlieb and Frederika Pabst, 
was born in Thuringen in Saxony, Germany, March 28, 1836, 
and died at his home at 2000 Grand Ave., Milwaukee, on Xew 
Year’s day, 1904. With hi$ father and miother he came to 
Milwaukee in 1848, and a few months later accompanied them 
to Chicago, where the mother died in 1849. About this time 
the father accepted a position as cook in a, Chicago' hotel and 
Frederick waited on the table for five dollars a month. Soon 
after he obtained a similar position in another hotel, and about 
the year 1850 went aboard one of the Goodrich steamers, plying 
upon. Lake Michigan, as cabin boy. From: this humble position 
he rose rapidly, and at the age of twenty-one he was made cap^ 
tain of the steamer Huron. 
In 1862 Captain Pabst was married to Marie, the daughter 
of Philip Best, son of the founder of the brewing firm of Jacob 
