104 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



powers of close observation, and patient study — especially in the branch 

 of entomology — and the common forms of life about us. 



Graduating from Phillips Academy in 1858, especially did he excel in 

 Greek and Latin — receiving his instruction directly from the Principal, Mr. 

 Taylor — which became so useful to him in pursuing his favorite branches 

 of Entomology and Conchology, in which he became an acknowledged 

 expert. 



He went to the State House in Boston in October, 1858, when he was 

 employed in the State Cabinet until 1865, when he was engaged by the 

 Boston Society of Natural History in the departments of Entomology and 

 Ornithology, receiving the appointment as regular assistant in 1867, which 

 position he held until 1872. In 1872 he accepted a position as teacher 

 of Entomology and Microscopy in the Bussy Institute, connected with 

 Harvard College. During the spring and summer of 1874 he was an 

 assistant in the Geological Survey of Kentucky, under Prof. Shaler. With 

 other gentlemen of the survey, he visited about fifty caves, including 

 Mammoth Cave, chiefly with a view to ascertain the variations in tempera- 

 ture, and the present and extinct forms of animal hfe. In 1875 he was 

 employed by the Smithsonian Institution in arranging the coleoptera of 

 North America for the Centennial Exhibition. This collection was shown 

 in twenty-four large cases in the Government Building. Since then he 

 has been engaged in museum work, arranging and labelling private cabinets, 

 giving lectures before schools and clubs, on Entomology chiefly. Until 

 1882 he was employed as regular custodian in the Museum of the Wor- 

 cester Natural History Society, which office he held at the time of his 

 death. His work in museums, on private cabinets, and in arranging bio- 

 logical collections, giving on clear and distinct labels the history of the 

 objects, making them plain and intelligible to the people, was one of the 

 many things in which Mr. Sanborn excelled. He studied the common 

 things of life — those which immediately surround us — and there was rarely 

 anything in animal or vegetable life as to which he could not gratify an 

 intelligent curiosity, and give a correct answer, and he delighted to do so. 

 From a notice of his death in the Worcester Spy, we quote the following : 



" He was ingenious, full of resources, remarkably ready and happy in 

 communicating information to all inquirers ; of a cheerful, buoyant and 

 uncomplaining temper, with the simplest tastes and habits ; he was a 

 diligent student, an agreeable and unobtrusive companion. Hi^ death 

 seems sudden and untimely, but it is certain that he himself, unworldly as 



