4 Benjamin Franklin Shumard. 
cal surveys for the time in our country. Dr. Shumard returned 
to St. Louis and with difficulty succeeded in rescuing his 
library from Austin after the close of the war. Soon after 
his return from the Oregon expedition in the autumn of 1852 
he married Miss E. M. Allen of Louisville, a lady of rare liter- 
ary attainments, and of congenial tastes, who had made his 
home in Austin, as well as in St. Louis, a delightful one. 
Upon his return to St. Louis in 1861, he resumed the practice 
of his profession as a means of support for his family. With 
this stimulus he succeeded in winning not only the support 
he sought for his family, but position and competence in a 
profession which had been abandoned for fifteen years. He 
was elected professor of medicine in the University of Missouri 
in 1866. After two years of successful work in this field con- 
sumption developed. He declined rapidly and died the 14th of 
April 1869, in the 49th year of his age. His wife and two 
daughters survived him. At the time of Dr. Shumard's death 
he was president of the St. Louis Academy of Science, and 
corresponding member of the Academies of Philadelphia, Cali- 
fornia, Cincinnati and New Orleans, in America. He was also 
a corresponding member of the Geological Society of London, 
the Geological Society of France, the Imperial Geological So- 
ciety of Vienna and the Imperial Geological Society of Darm- 
stadt. 
His labors have attracted the attention of geologists in all 
countries. The high estimation in which they are held is 
attested by the constant reference to them in later works that 
relate to the geology of North America. 
LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF B. F, SHUMARD. 
1847 — Contributions to the geology of Kentucky. Western Journal of 
Medicine and Snrgery. 
1851 — Geological report of local detailed observations in the valleys of 
the Minnesota, Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers, made in the years 
1848 and 1849. Owen's report on the geology of ]Visconsiti,Iou'a and 
Minnesota, p. 481. 
— Descriptions of one new genus and twenty-two new species of 
crinoidea, from the Sub-Carboniferous limestone of Iowa. (Con- 
jointly with Dr. Owen.) Owen's Report, I., Wis. and Minn. p. 587. 
[First published in the Jour. Phil. Acad. Sciences, vol. n, 2nd Ser. 
p. 57.] 
— On the number and distribirtion of fossil species in the paleozoic 
rocks of Iowa, Wisconsin and INIinnesota (Conjointlv with Owen.) 
Proc.A. A. A. S., 1851, p. 235. 
1852 — Descriptions of seven new species of Crinoidea from the sub-Car- 
boniferous limestone of Iowa and Illinois. (Conjointly with Owen). 
Jour. Phil. Acad. Sciences, vol. ii, 2nd Series, p. 89. 
