84 SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER— MAYOR. mBlt0l 'fv^t T x : vii, 



Not only was he a founder of Psyche but he acted in the same beneficent capacity to the 

 weekly journal Science and was its editor from 1883 to 1885. Indeed wherever his interest led 

 him men delighted in his leadership. For years he remained most prominent in the affairs of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, to whose publications he contributed no less than 163 

 scientific papers. 



The extensive explorations conducted by the United States Geological Survey in the decades 

 following the Civil War had led to the discovery of many fossil insects, and no more fortunate 

 choice of a specialist to study these could have been made than that of Scudder who remained 

 attached to the staff of the survey as paleontologist from January 1, 1886, to July 31, 1892. 

 Not only did he make a thorough study of American forms, but in 1891 he prepared a valuable 

 index to the known fossil insects of the world. 



It was but natural that his high attainments and unsurpassed productiveness in publica- 

 tion should attract world-wide attention and win for him the highest scientific recognition. 



In 1898 he received the Walker grand prize of $1,000 from the Boston Society of Natural 

 History in recognition of his preeminent contributions to entomology. In 1890 the Western 

 University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. In 1877 he was elected 

 a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the American Philosophical Society in 

 1878. 



He was also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, being 

 its general secretary in 1875, and becoming a life member in 1880. Other associations of which 

 he was a member were the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the Davenport Academy of Sciences, 

 Microscopical Society of Boston, the Entomological Society of Washington, and the Troy Scien- 

 tific Association. 



He was also recognized abroad by being elected to honorary fellowship in the Royal Society 

 of Canada, Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, corresponding member of the Zoo- 

 logical Society of London, and of La Societe Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve; and 

 he was a foreign associate of the national entomological or zoological societies of The Hague, 

 Petrograd, Vienna, Moscow, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Brussels. 



On June 25, 1867, he married Ethelinda Jane Blatchford the daughter of Edgcumbe Heath 

 Blatchford and Mary Ann Hubbard. She died on June 9, 1872, leaving a son Gardiner Hubbard 

 Scudder, born September 3, 1S69. 



After graduating with honors from Harvard University this young man entered the Harvard 

 Medical School where his indefinable charm of manner coupled as it was with earnestness, 

 industry, and exceptional mental ability gave high promise for the future; but he graduated 

 only to be stricken with acute tuberculosis from which he died on December 26, 1896. 

 • Broken by the weight of this appalling deprivation Samuel Scudder never recovered in 

 health or spirit, for in the same year in which his son died, he had developed symptoms of 

 paralysis agitans. Calmly preparing for the invalidism which awaited him he gave his books 

 and pamphlets to the scientific societies in which his had so long been the leading spirit; and 

 then with a patience which only so noble a character as his could show he spent the long years 

 of waiting ministered to in all kindliness and care by his sister-in-law, Miss Blatchford, authoress 

 of "Little Jane and Me," who in order to cheer the painful hours read to him day after day as 

 he sat on the verandah of his home in Cambridge. 



That remarkable interest in system and fascination for detail that had characterized his 

 active life still survived in these passive years, for at his request Miss Blatchford read to him 

 every word of the original folio edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, including the preface and 

 the definition of each and every word; almost the entire time between January 12 and October 

 24, 1905, being consumed in this manner. Finally the end came on May 17, 1011. 



Far more he was than the most learned entomologist of his generation, for few men of science 

 have endeared themselves to those around them as did he, endowed as he was with an innate 

 quality of kindliness that seemingly unknown to him graced his every word and act. One 



