What Is a Naturalist, Anyway?

John T. Nichols, portrait dated 1929 (Image #117633, American Museum of Natural History Library).

A photograph taken during Nichols's “chance meeting” with Jordan and Evermann's expedition to the Hawaiian Islands, Nuuanu Pali, 12 June 1901. Back row from left: Charles Bradford Hudson (artist), Edmund Lee Goldsborough (U.S. Fish Commission, Evermann's assistant), Michitaro Sindo (Jordan's assistant). Front row from left: Albertus Hutchinson Baldwin (artist), Barton Warren Evermann (U.S.F.C.), Grace Barnhisel (CBH's future wife, recent Stanford University graduate, not an expedition member), Knight Jordan (age 13, D. S. Jordan's son), David Starr Jordan (Stanford University), Alvin Seale (curator of fishes, Bishop Museum), John Treadwell Nichols (age 18, volunteer, future curator of fishes, American Museum of Natural History). Photograph by John N. Cobb (U.S.F.C. statistician, in charge of expedition arrangements). Edmund Lee Goldsborough Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

John T. Nichols, 1940, participating in the Michael Lerner Peru-Chile Expedition of American Museum of Natural History (Image #337677, American Museum of Natural History Library).