558 JOHN ELORIDGE HUDSON. 



mechanical processes," for which then- was a steady demand from museums 



and collectors in Europe long after the edition was exhausted. 



His most important work," Etching," a sumptuous volume with thirty 

 plates by old and modern etchers, and numerous reproductions, was pub- 

 lished in New York iu 1885, before his appointment at the Museum. 



In 1893 he delivered a course of nine lectures before the Lowell Insti- 

 tute, subsequently repeated in Washington, on 4t Old and Modern 

 Methods of Engraving." At other times he lectured before the Art Club, 

 the Society of Arts, and on various occasions to private classes. 



In 1892 Harvard conferred the honorary degree of A.M. lie was 

 elected Resident Fellow of the Academy May 10, 1893. 



The recent transfer to Harvard of the collections deposited with the 

 Museum, and the sudden acquisition by purchase and bequest of great 

 numbers of prints a year or two before his death, was a source of anxiety 

 to him in his feeble health. The end came suddenly, unexpectedly, but 

 painlessly, following within a year that of his wife. For Ids reputation 

 one can but regret that his untimely death prevented the completion of a 

 " History of the Art of Color-printing." for which he had accumulated a 

 large amount of material, — a difficult task, for which no one was so well 

 fitted as he to sift the facts and refute prevalent errors. 



The large and valuable library which he had accumulated he gave, 

 with many prints, to the Museum of Fine Arts. A list of his publica- 

 tions is given in the twenty-fifth annual report of that Museum. 



Chas. G. Loring. 



JOHN ELBRIDGE HUDSON. 



The duty has been assigned to me of communicating to the Academy 

 some account of our late associate, John Elbridge Hudson, who w;^ 

 elected a Fellow on dune 15, 1892, and was a member of the Council 

 fro,,. May 8, 1896, to May 10, 1899. 



It is a grateful duty, for 1 had known Mr. Hudson long and well, and 

 had for him a ver\ ir'eat regard. He was a student at Harvard Colli _■ 

 when I first saw him, — a shy. studious, thoughtful boy, at the head of 

 bis class. A few years later be walked into the office of the law firm 

 with which I was connected and asked to be received as a student. From 



that time to the moment of his death — for half of my life and more 

 than half of his — I Baw much of him. With few men could he have 

 talked more confidentially of what most concerned him than he did with 

 . and certainly with few men did I hold a more intimate friendship. 



