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...ventail at Milan and the Tower of London. Last week the trustees of the Metropolitan unveiled a bronze tablet designed by Sculptor Daniel Chester French and dedicated a hall of armor to the memory of the man who, by giving the hall, made the Metropolitan armorially fourth -the late Bashford Dean, Curator of Arms & Armor at the Metropolitan from...
...Died. Bashford Dean, 61, famed ichthyologist and armorist (see p. 34); at Battle Creek, Mich...
...date of the American Museum's opening of its Hall of Fishes was a sad mischance. Guest of honor was to have been Dr. Bashford Dean, retired and honorary curator of ichthyology, who had planned the fish collection. An astonishingly different interest of his was in arms & armor. He knew more about arms & armor than any man in this country and aimed to make the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rank next after those in Paris, Madrid and Denver. Rarely has a man held active curatorship in two great museums, and of such separated fields...
...every member of the Board should give his gold watch to the cause. Luther B. Wilson, famed Bishop, at once saw the point. He took out his watch, went to the table, laid it down. In the pocket of Bishop Grose ticked the timepiece of the late James W. Bashford,* Bishop of Peking, who put Methodism on the Oriental side of the map. That, too, went on the table. It was a good idea. C. E. Welch,† grape juice man, took his watch to the table. He was followed by a Vice President of the Pennsylvania...
...James Whitford Bashford; pastor, educator, author, M. E. Bishop of Peking, China. Born Fayette, Wis., 1849-died 1919. President of Ohio Wesleyan College, 1889-1904. Characterized by his students as "What-can-I-do-for-you" Bashford; by the Chinese, among whom he numbered many distinguished friends, as "the man with the shining face." A tremendous worker; carried a case of books with him when travelling and wrote many books himself. Among other strong views he held women should be admitted to the ministry...