The Days of a Man 1883 



came to have a much more valuable collection than 

 before. It contained many thousand titles on fishes 

 alone, and was finally presented to Stanford Uni- 

 versity. 



On the On my return to America, Baird offered me for a 

 F .* sb short time the Fish Commission steamer Fish 

 Hawk, on which I went out from Woods Hole 

 around Marthas Vineyard to gather the nucleus 

 of a new collection. The Fish Hawk, it may be 

 explained, had replaced the little Blue Light of 1874, 

 to be itself later superseded by the finely equipped 

 and commodious Albatross. My trip was very suc- 

 cessful and enabled me to make a new start, al- 

 though I never afterward maintained a collection of 

 my own, regarding all duplicates assigned me from 

 any source as the property of the institution I rep- 

 resented. Of later accretions, the first series went 

 mainly to the National Museum, the next to Indiana 

 or Stanford, while duplicate sets were usually re- 

 served for London, Paris, and Vienna. 



The fire was a hard blow for the University, the 

 better one of its two large buildings having been 

 destroyed and the necessity of reconstruction being 

 very pressing. As the old campus was far too small, 

 the trustees now decided to abandon it and turn the 

 remaining building over to the preparatory school. 

 The They accordingly bought a large forest of maples, 

 a beautiful and stately grove occupying a gently 

 sloping hillside just east of town and forming a site 

 of special charm. Two brick buildings were hastily 

 constructed, the larger one being named Wylie 

 Hall, the smaller assigned to me Owen Hall ; 

 in due season, also, other halls were built and dedi- 

 cated to Kirkwood and Maxwell. 

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