OBITUARIES Copeia 2011, No. 4, 599–605 Margaret G. Bradbury (1927–2010) Tomio Iwamoto 1 , Gregor M. Cailliet 2 , Daniel M. Cohen 3 , Theodore W. Pietsch 4 , Tom Tucker 5 , Ralph J. Larson 6 , and Marlene L. Martin 7 M ARGARET (‘‘MAGGIE’’) BRADBURY was born in Chicago, Illinois on 15 July 1927 to Margaret and Gerald Bradbury. She had one sibling, a younger brother Gerald, Jr., who had a daughter Jarill Ristine and son Robert. Margaret attended public schools in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Her father, an architect, died when she was young, but left her with a great interest in architecture. Jarill Ristine (in litt., 4 Dec. 2010) relates that Margaret’s ‘‘father died when she was probably 11, my dad was 9. He was sent off to boarding school while Maggie lived at home . . . when Aunt Maggie [came] for a visit . . . usually Christmas . . . I was always enchanted. To me she was larger than life, beautiful and exciting to listen to . . . telling wonderful stories about Te Vega and places she had been.’’ In 1947 Margaret entered the field of science as Staff Artist of the Department of Zoology at the Chicago Natural History Museum (now Field Museum of Natural History, FMNH), providing illustrations for (among others) herpetologists Robert F. Inger (1954, 1956) and Karl P. Schmidt, and ichthyologists Robert H. Kanazawa (1952) and Loren P. Woods (Woods and Kanazawa, 1951). The amphibian drawings she did for Inger’s Philippine Amphibia (1954) and the squirrelfish genus Holocentrus for Woods (1955; also Woods and Sonoda, 1973) displayed her early artistic skills. During part of her years at FMNH, she was enrolled at Roosevelt College [now University] in Chicago, at that time a new (opened 1945) college dedicated to equal access to education and to progressive causes. She received her B.S. degree in Zoology in 1955. During the summer of 1955, she collected fishes in the Bahamas on an expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, after which she matriculated as a graduate student at Stanford University (SU). DMC recalls Margaret saying that she entered the SU graduate program as a student of George S. Myers at the urging of FMNH ichthyologists Marion Grey and Loren Woods, and herpetologist Karl P. Schmidt. DMC first met her as a fellow graduate student at SU during one of her Turkish coffee parties—such events perhaps a prelude to a life as a supremely gracious hostess entertaining a constant stream of friends, visitors, and associates. 1 Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118; E-mail: tiwamoto@calacademy.org. 2 Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, California 95039-9647; E-mail: Cailliet@mlml.calstate.edu. 3 100 Thorndale Drive, Apt. 148, San Rafael, California 94093; E-mail: dmco3@comcast.net. 4 School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Campus Box 355020, Seattle, Washington 98105-5020; E-mail: twp@uw.edu. 5 970 Laurel Avenue, San Mateo, California 94401; E-mail: usattuckers@gmail.com. 6 Department of Biology, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132; E-mail: rlars@sfsu.edu. 7 26445 Via Mallorca, Carmel, California 93923; E-mail: Mlmartin4@aol.com. F 2011 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists DOI: 10.1643/OT-10-195 Fig. 1. Margaret taking fish photos on board the Te Vega in the Indian Ocean, 1964. (Photograph by Richard Mariscal.)