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him still busy despite his seventy-six years, and occupying humble lodgings in a stone annex to the museum, with only an elderly servant looking after his comfort. To the Vienna public he was a "bekannter Fischkenner," to his colleagues an investigator of the first rank. His last set of papers, quartos dealing with certain Brazilian fishes, passed into the hands of the British censor, from whom only the second part has yet come across.

During the war I heard nothing from him, nor did I learn until 1920 how he had fared in the ordeal through which Vienna is still passing. But his successor, Dr. Victor Pietschmann, informs me that he died on December 10, 1919, his final illness and death being directly due to the inability of the museum to procure coal for heating any of its offices.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy. Volume: 2. Contributors: David Starr Jordan - author. Publisher: World Book. Place of Publication: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 311.
    
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