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The value of Packard's work can not be best estimated and, per- 

 haps, is not fully appreciated by the younger generation of morpholo- 

 gists and physiologists, whose energies are absorbed in the amazing 

 elaboration of cell studies ; it must be left to ' the judgment of his 

 confreres.' From these men of many countries have come unequivocal 

 tokens of approval. The American Academy of Sciences elected him 

 to membership in 1872, the Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, Bel- 

 gium, in 1875; the Society of Friends of Natural Science in Moscow, 

 in 1891. In 1901 he was elected a foreign member of the Linnean 

 Society of London. In this distinction he once more renewed the com- 

 radeship of his fellow students and collaborators at Penikese, Alex- 

 ander Agassiz and C. 0. Whitman, who were the only other American 

 zoological members. He was elected to membership in the ento- 

 mological societies of London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Stockholm and 

 Brussels; was one of the honorary presidents of the International 

 Zoological Congress at Paris, and honorary president of the Zoological 

 Section of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 and in 1898 was vice-president of the Zoological Section of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science. 



In the latter years of his teaching, his colleagues and the students 

 of the university where for twenty-six years he had held a professor- 

 ship awarded him tokens of esteem rarely bestowed upon their col- 

 leagues and teachers. The members of the faculty constrained him 

 to attend a banquet held in his honor, at which the address of his life- 

 long friend, Professor Hyatt, completed his modest confusion. A 

 loving cup recently presented to him by his class in zoology was valued 

 by the distinguished, genial teacher above the diplomas of many 

 learned societies. 



Professor Packard was not quite sixty-six years of age, but his 

 active scientific career extended over a period of forty-five years, and 

 during that time he published upwards of four hundred books and 

 papers. He married, in 1867, Elizabeth Debby, daughter of the late 

 Samuel B. Walcott, of Salem, who, with two daughters and a son, 

 survives him. 



