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for Students and General Readers," 1879, miscellaneous notes and 

 papers on anthropology and ethnology and the notable book "La- 

 march, the Founder of Evolution, his Life and Work," 190L Ento- 

 mology, however, was his chief interest. Professor Samuel Henshaw 

 in "The Entomological Writings of Alpheus Spring Packard," enu- 

 merates three hundred and thirty-nine papers, books and notes, pub- 

 lished up to 1887. He continued to produce papers upon this subject 

 literally up to the last week of his life when he corrected the proof of 

 his "Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of America" etc.. Memoir 

 of the National Academ}' of Sciences. 



In his long and active career as Naturalist, Packard was associated 

 with many American institutions and had a prominent part in found- 

 ing some of them. In 1865 he became, on returning from service as 

 assistant surgeon in the Army of the Potomac, librarian and acting 

 custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History. With Hyatt, 

 Morse and Putnam, his former associates in Agassiz's laboratory, 

 he accepted a position in the Essex Institute in Salem, and subse- 

 quently when the Peabody Academy of Science absorbed the Essex 

 Institute, he became Curator of Invertebrates and later, 1876, Director 

 of the Academy. The American Naturalist was founded by this 

 group of men in the Peabody Academy in 1868 and Packard remained 

 its editor-in-chief for twenty years. He was also prominently con- 

 nected with that novel undertaking of Agassiz's which has proved to 

 have been of inestimable value to biology in America, the Anderson 

 School at Penikese. He taught there both years and when the school 

 was given up on account of Agassiz's death, he perpetuated the idea 

 by establishing a summer school of natural history at Salem under 

 the auspices of the Peabody Academy. This he directed until 1878 

 when he left Salem to accept the Professorship of Zoology and Geology 

 at Brown University, the position which he held until his death. As 

 is evident from the title this professorship permitted a latitude in 

 subject matter that suited the range of his scientific interest. 



As a teacher, judged from the view point of students who have 

 since achieved maturity. Professor Packard represents a well recog- 

 nized type. He was not a disciplinarian, a pedagogue or an "edu- 

 cator." With impregnable faith in youth, he tried unremittingly to 

 awaken his students to the vision of nature which to him was totally 

 absorbing. 



" It was from the judgment of his confreres, from the men who had 

 traversed the same intellectual territory and knew it, that he reaped 

 his supreme honors. From these alone could the reward have come; 



