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the result of years of stud}', interpretation and defense of Lamarck's 

 writing, and of a journey to France for the purpose of looking up the 

 records of Lamarck's private and professional life. In this portrayal 

 of Lamarck there may be perceived something of the personal loyalty, 

 esteem and almost affectionate regard which Professor Packard un- 

 consciously but inevitably showed in conversing about the ' founder 

 of evolution.' These conversations about Lamarck and other natural- 

 ists of the past were one of the many things which revealed to Packard's 

 friends his own unconscious genuineness. The absolute absorption of 

 his interests by natural science made the persons, events and facts 

 connected with it as real and natural as each day's life. 



The quiet reticence which characterized Packard did not grow out 

 of a life of contemplation without action and contact with things and 

 men. Prom his student days he had actively participated in expedi- 

 tions, commissions, surveys, foreign and domestic travel and in the 

 founding of scientific institutions. At the end of his junior year in 

 college, he went with Chadbourne on the Greenland and Labrador 

 Expedition. In his senior year he went with a class on a trip to the 

 Bay of Fundy. Immediately after his graduation, in 1861-62, he 

 explored the wilderness of northern Maine as assistant on the Geo- 

 logical Survey of that state. He enlisted as assistant surgeon in the 

 First Maine Veteran Volunteers which joined the Army of the 

 Potomac in 1861. He joined a party organized by a Mr. William 

 Bradford in the summer of 1864 and paid a second visit to Labrador. 

 In 1867 he was examining the glacial traces in the White Mountains. 

 The animals of the Florida reefs and of the Beaufort, N". C, flats en- 

 gaged his attention in 1869-70, and the next year we find him study- 

 ing the development of Crustacea and collecting fossil mollusca in 

 Charleston, S. C. In 1871 he was appointed Massachusetts state 

 entomologist, a position which he held three years. Meanwhile he 

 visited Europe and spent much time in the study of insects at the 

 British Museum. The summer of 1873 found him working again with 

 Agassiz, as a teacher in the Anderson School of Natural History at 

 Penikese. He returned the next year to the school and for a time was 

 the dean of its faculty. He held an appointment from 1875 to 1877 

 as one of the zoologists on the United States Geological Survey under 

 Ferdinand V. Hayden, and from 1877 to 1882 was a member of the 

 United States Entomological Commission. In the latter capacity he 

 made extensive trips in the western part of the United States, in- 

 vestigating the breeding grounds and distribution of the Rocky Moun- 

 tain locust. In 1874 he was appointed on the Kentucky Geological 

 Survey, and with Putnam made explorations of che great caves and 

 observations upon the cave fauna which laid the foundations of his 

 later works upon these subjects. He visited Mexico in 1885, Cuba in 



