and put them away in a case of his own building! Later he studied arrow heads, 

 being led to them by the Narragansett Indian remains, and branching out into 

 archaeological studies till his collection included specimens from all over this 

 country and Alaska. He was asked to show them in London, and made a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society in recognition of his work in prehistoric fields. His paper 

 on the Great Swamp Fight of 1675 was a fruit of his Indian study, and his edition 

 of the Jonny Cake Papers showed his antiquarian research as well as his knowl- 

 edge of local history, and the arts of book making. Ants and bees excited his 

 interest, and he was never tired of walking in the woods, observing all the life 

 with which it was thronged. 



His love for Santa Barbara was no recent thing. In 1887 he and his 

 family spent the winter and a portion of the summer here, and his beautiful 

 photographs, which he developed himself, record his enthusiasm. In the Sunday 

 School in Peace Dale, of which for many years he was the superintendent, hangs 

 a large print of the Mission as it was thirty years ago. The sycamore trees 

 delighted him, and he made endless studies of their mottled and twisted trunks. 

 There were occasional brief visits later for short vacation periods as the burden 

 of his increasing affairs pressed too heavily, and finally in 1916, "a minute man" 

 as he himself said, he came here for the healing of Santa Barbara. Here he 

 reverted to the delight of his youth, which had never been abandoned, but which 

 from stress of other things had been in abeyance. His last months were made 

 happy with the old interest. He came to the work room of the Museum, and 

 himself worked with his exquisite, sure touch, which could handle the frailest 

 egg shell, and his accurate eye, which knew and recognized the most delicate 

 markings and rejoiced in subtle colorization. Here once more he quaffed never- 

 failing fountains of joy, to the refreshment of body and spirit. 



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