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fallen very largely into the hands of American born draughts- 

 men. 



Although it is not my intention to discuss the work of living 

 entomological illustrators it would be doing a great injustice to 

 that grand old man among American illustrators of entomo- 

 logical subjects, Mr. James H. Emerton, to mention the work of 

 his early contemporaries without paying tribute to his long and 

 useful service in this field. Mr. Emerton was born at Salem, 

 Mass., in 1847, and at this time is enjoying a vigorous old age in 

 the environs of Boston. He it was who drew many of the line 

 drawings and figures of larvae and pupae for Scudder's Butter- 

 flies of the Eastern United States and Canada, and also more 

 than one hundred of the text figures for Packard's Guide to the 

 Study of Insects. Mr. Emerton is the author and illustrator of 

 a standard work on spiders, entitled "The Structure and Habits 

 of North American Spiders," and has shown his versatility by 

 the construction of many models of marine and other animals 

 for the large museums of this country. It is remarkable that 

 one of Mr. Emerton's colleagues in the illustration of Scudder's 

 Butterflies, Mr. James Henry Blake, also survives. Mr. Blake 

 was born in Boston July 8, 1845, and at present resides at West 

 Somerville, Mass. He was educated at the Lawrence Scientific 

 School, was Prof. Louis Agassiz' assistant at the time of his 

 death and accompanied him on the Hassler Expedition and 

 served as assistant paleontologist in the U. S. Geological survey 

 for several seasons. Mr. Blake is also known as a public 

 lecturer and especially as a zoological artist. He drew a large 

 number of the very beautiful colored plates for Scudder's 

 "Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada," and 

 illustrated his "Tertiary Insects of North America," as well as 

 other entomological publications of note. Mr. Blake has the 

 honor of being dean of entomological illustrators in this country, 

 as he is Mr. Emerton's senior by about two years. Two other 

 artists contributed drawings to Packard's Guide regarding whom 

 little or nothing appears on record; they are, L. Trouvelot and 

 C. A. Walker. The former also executed some drawings for 

 Scudder's Butterflies. The latter may have been Chas. A. 

 Walker, a well known etcher of the period, who achieved an 

 enviable reputation as an interpreter .of famous paintings bur 

 this must apparently remain in doubt. 



A distinguished colleague of Blake and Emerton in the work 

 on "Scudder's Butterflies" was Edward Burgess, who was born 

 at West Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1848, and died at Boston, 

 that State, in 1891. Mr. Burgess graduated from Harvard in 

 1871 and became secretary of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. He served as instructor in entomology at Harvard 

 from 1879 to 1883, afterwards becoming a designer of sailing 

 yachts. He was the creator of the Puritan, the Mayflower, and 



