DEATH OF PROF. CHAS. LINDEN.
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.