Correspondence by Ph. Heinsberger.
Prof. Charles Linden, instructor in natural history at the Buffalo High
School, died in that city, of acute mania on Feb. 3.
Prof. Linden came to America from Breslau, Germany, twenty-five years
ago as a sailor, and was engaged as a seaman on the great lakes when his
knowledge of natural history became known and the charge of the
collections of the Society of Natural Sciences was given him, after
which he took his position in the High School.
The Society sent him abroad every summer, visiting in turn Brazil, where
he secured many valuable birds, South America, Hayti, and the Southern
States. In 1879, while exploring the coast of Labrador, he was
shipwrecked and put ashore by a rescuing vessel. It was his custom to
send everything new to him to the Harvard Museum. He was an authority on
ornithology, and a writer of many valuable articles on that subject.