848 ALPHEUS SPRING PACKARD. 



ALPHEUS SPRING PACIvARD (1839-1905) 



FeUow in Class II, Section 3, 1868. 



Alpheus Spring Packard was born in Brunswick, Maine, on February 

 19, 1839, and died at his home in Providence, R. I., on February 14, 

 1905. 



In view of the present interest in the backgrounds of American 

 scholars it may be recorded that his grandfather Hezekiah Packard, 

 a revolutionary soldier, received from Harvard College the degrees 

 of A.B., A.M. and D.D. and was an able preacher, teacher and writer. 

 The Rev. Dr. Jesse Appleton, one of the early Presidents of Bowdoin 

 was his maternal grandfather. His father was the Professor Alpheus 

 Spring Packard who for sixty-five years taught various classical sub- 

 jects at Bowdoin, the venerable scholar to whom Longfellow addressed 

 his "Morituri Salutamus." 



Packard graduated from Bowdoin in 1861 ; received the degrees of 

 A.M., Bowdoin, 1862; M.D., Bowdoin, 1864; S.B., Harvard, 1864; 

 Ph.D., Bowdoin, 1879; LL.D., Bowdoin, 1891. 



After graduation he studied under Louis iVgassiz at Cambridge for 

 three years and subsequently taught with him at the Anderson School 

 of Natural History at Penikese. The comprehensiveness of his 

 interests which included geology, paleontology, systematic, structural 

 and economic zoology, embryology and anthropology may be said 

 perhaps to have been an academic heritage through Agassiz from the 

 generation of Humbolt, Cuvier, Lamarck and St. Hilaire. His 

 geological researches are recorded in books and papers on glacial 

 phenomena of Labrador, Maine and the White Mountains. He 

 published (1867) a "Revision of the Fossorial Hymenoptera of N. A." 

 In the U. S. Geological Survey (1875-1877) under Hayden he served 

 as a zoologist. As a member of the Kentucky Geological Survey in 

 1874 he investigated with Putnam the great caves and their fauna of 

 which he later wrote, " The Cave Fauna of N. A.," 1888. He studied 

 also the Florida reefs and the fossil fauna of Charleston, S. C. In 

 1882 he published a text _book "First Lessons in Geology." He 

 published works so diversified as "The Development and Anatomy 

 of Linuilus Polyphemus," 1871, the "Monograph of North American 

 Phyllopod Crustacea," 1883, the "Life History of Animals, including 

 IMan, or Outlines of Comparative Embryology," 1876, the "Zoology 



