19013 Artists and Scientists 



Goldsborough, Michitaro Sindo, and (later) Jenkins 

 besides two artists, Captain Charles Bradley 

 Hudson and Albertus H. Baldwin. Evermann and I 

 studied especially the natural history of the fishes; 

 Cobb, then statistician of the United States Fish 

 Commission, looked after economic interests; Hud- 

 son and Baldwin painted as many as possible of the 

 different species. 1 With me went my son Knight, 

 then thirteen years old, while another lad, John T. 

 Nichols, since ichthyologist of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, joined us as volunteer assistant. 



Hudson's fish paintings in oil are the finest yet Hudson's 

 made by any one. 2 His custom was to draw first an ** work 

 outline sketch of a dead specimen, then paint from a 

 living example in our aquarium at Waikiki, the east- 

 ern beach of the city front. The obvious drawback 

 to this system was that it could be applied only to 

 relatively common forms, those we were certain 

 soon to capture and keep alive. Of several of the 

 most interesting, only one or two specimens have 

 ever been taken, and for these we had to be content 

 with Baldwin's more conventional method, good of 

 its kind, but necessarily in a different class. 



On the boat going over we found two fine young The ^gin 

 women, recent graduates of Stanford, who had nin sf a 



, . . . i T^- i i romance 



accepted positions as teachers in the Kamehameha 

 School at Honolulu. One of them, Maryline Bar- 

 nard, I had originally met in i88o. 3 The other, 

 Grace Barnhisel, afterward married Captain Hudson. 

 Of the attractive city of Honolulu, with its impos- 



1 Reduced to postcard form, these pictures have ever since found great 

 favor with tourists. 



2 This artist's natural history efforts have been by no means confined to fishes. 

 Several of the finest panoramic scenes in the San Francisco Academy of Sciences 

 are by him. See Vol. I, Chapter x, page 238. 



* See Vol. I, Chapter ix, page 210. 



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