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these specimens he became acquainted with the late Chester Barlow, and it was 
on account of the friendship which ensued that he was led to join the Cooper 
Ornithological Club in 1895. 
The Amador County mine not having turned out as well as he had been led 
to expect, Kaeding- accepted an invitation to join A. W. Anthony on a trip to 
the South Pacific islands. A second trip was made with Mr. Anthony in 1897. 
Fig-. ,52. Henry B. Kaeding; photograph taken by W. Otto 
Emerson on the Faraeeon Iseands in June, 190,3. 
(See Kaeding’s article in Condor for September, 1903, 
pages 121-127.) 
(dn this latter expedition the schooner was wrecked in the nighttime off Mag- 
dalena Bay, and the party escaped from the sinking vessel through the breakers 
in a small boat, saving but few of their possessions and specimens, landing on 
a desolate beach in scant clothing, with but little if any food, and with a sixty- 
mile walk in prospect to the nearest point of succor ! Much was added to our 
knowledge of the bird life of some of these islands by the two expeditions made 
