558 JOHN ELBRIDGE HUDSON. 



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

 and collectors in Europe lung 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 in 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 " 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. He 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 his 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 jirevalent 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. 



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

 some account of our late associate, John Elbridge Hudson, who was 

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

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



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

 had for him a very great regard. He was a student at Harvard College 

 when 1 first saw him, — a shy, studious, thoughtful boy, at the head of 

 his class. A few years later he 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 saw much of him. With few men could he have 

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

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



