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1886, and in 1889 traveled in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and Europe, 

 arriving in Paris to attend the meetings of the International Zoo- 

 logical Congress of which he was elected an honorary president. 



In the course of his long and active career he was associated with 

 many American institutions and took a prominent part in the found- 

 ing of some of them. After his service in the army he became librarian 

 and acting custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History 1865- 

 66. Then with his friends, Hyatt, Morse, Putnam and Cooke, he 

 accepted a position in the Essex Institute in Salem which was at that 

 time a thriving and important scientific institution. When the Pea- 

 body Academy of Science in Salem was founded in 1868 and absorbed 

 the Essex Institute, Packard became its curator of Invertebrates and 

 later, in 1876, was elected director of the academy. It was this group 

 of fellow students, Packard, Hyatt, Morse and Putnam, who in 1868 

 founded the American Naturalist, and Packard remained its editor- 

 in-chief for twenty years. While curator at the Peabody Institute, 

 he lectured on entomology in the Massachusetts State College, 1869-77, 

 in the Maine Agricultural College, 1871, and on natural history in 

 Bowdoin College, 1871-74. 



Packard was also prominently connected with a novel undertaking 

 which has proved to be of inestimable value in the development of 

 biological science in America. The Anderson School of Natural His- 

 tory at Penikese Island was inaugurated by Louis Agassiz in 1873 ; 

 here Packard taught for two years and then, when this school was 

 given up on account of Agassiz's death, Packard perpetuated the idea 

 by establishing a summer school of biology at Salem under the aus- 

 pices of the Peabody Academy. He directed this laboratory until 

 1878, when he left Salem to accept the professorship of zoology and 

 geology at Brown University. The cherished idea of the seaside 

 laboratory of natural history then took form in the Annisquam 

 laboratory established through the efforts of Packard's colleague Pro- 

 fessor Hyatt, under the auspices of the Woman's Education Society 

 of Boston, and this experiment in turn led the way to the establish- 

 ment of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. This in- 

 stitution, directed for so many years by a Penikese student, Dr. CO. 

 Whitman, and the United States Fish Commission laboratory at Woods 

 Hole, established by Professor Spencer F. Baird. a teacher at the 

 Penikese school, have not only afforded inspiration and opportunity 

 for research to hundreds of biologists, but have given birth to scores 

 of similar laboratories on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. 



From the colleges in which he was a student Packard received the 

 degrees of A.B., Bowdoin, 1861 ; A.M., Bowdoin, 1862; M.D., Bowdoin, 

 1864; S.B., Harvard, 1864; Ph.D., Bowdoin, 1879; LL.D., Bowdoin^ 

 1891. 



