82 THE NAUTILUS. 



DAVID DWIGHT BALDWIN. 



D. D. Baldwin, the veteran Hawaiian conchologist, died at 

 Honolulu, June 16th, at the age of eighty years and seven months. 

 Burial was in the old Makawao Cemetery, Maui. 



Mr. Baldwin was born at Honolulu November 26, 1831. His 

 childhood was spent at Waimea, Hawaii, and his boyhood at Lahaina, 

 Maui. From 1844 till 1851 he attended the Punahou School, where 

 he was prepared for college under the tuition of the Rev. Daniel 

 Dole. In 1852 he sailed for the United States by way of Cape 

 Horn. He entered Yale College in 1853, and graduated there with 

 honor in 1857, taking the astronomical prize. During his college 

 course he became acquainted with Miss Lois Gregory Morris, whom 

 he married October 7, 1857. Returning to the Islands he became 

 principal of the Lahaina School, which he conducted for seven years. 

 Latterly he engaged in the cultivation of sugar cane. From 1865 

 to 1872 he was manager of the Kohala Planatation, where he intro- 

 duced the so-called Lahaina cane, to which that plantation owed its 

 success. He then visited New Haven, Conn., where he remained 

 over a year. On his return, in 1874, he was appointed vice-principal 

 of Lahainaluna Seminary. 



In 1877 Mr. Baldwin was appointed Inspector-General of Schools, 

 holding that post for eight years. During his administration, and 

 largely by his influence, the number of schools in which the English 

 language was the basis of instruction increased from five to one 

 hundred. He also drew up the first course of study for such scliools. 



In October, 1885, he retired from the arduous position of 

 Inspector-General to take his former position as vice-principal of 

 Lahainaluna Seminary. In 1891 he removed to Haiku, Maui, and 

 finally retired from educational work in January, 1905, having been 

 connected with the Department of Public Instruction for thirty-eight 

 years. 



"While Mr. Baldwin's energies were largely devoted to education, 

 he was deeply interested in the natural sciences, especially studying 

 shells, ferns and mosses. In conchology he was esteemed the chief 

 Hawaiian student, and almost the only one to publish original work 

 on Achatinellidae between the period of Newcomb and Gulick and 

 the present time. Baldwin's Catalogue of Land and Fresh-water 

 Shells of the Hawaiian Islands (Honolulu, 1893), though brief and 



