EMBER 7, 1930. 



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J. H. EMERTON DIES; 

 AUTHORITY ON SPIDERS 



Noted Naturalist Succumbs in 



Boston on His Eighty- 



fourth Year. 



Special to The New York Times. 



BOSTON, Dec. 6— James Henry 

 Emerton, naturalist, reported to be 

 the leading authority on spiders in 

 the country, died late last night in 

 this city in his eighty-fourth year. 



Mr. Emerton was born at Salem in 

 1947. His home here was at the Fen- 

 way Studios in Ipswich Street. 



He gave much attention to illus- 

 trating for scientific publications in 

 connection with articles on entomol- 

 ogy. He did the illustrations in 

 Packard's "Guide to the Study ot 

 Insects" and Scudder's "Butterflies 

 of North America," and other books. 

 He made the models of a large oc- 

 topus and squid for the natural his- 

 tory museums at Harvard and Yale 

 Universities, the American Museum 

 in New York and the Washington 

 Museum, also the anatomical models 

 in the medical museums of Harvard 

 and the University of Pennsylvania 

 and the Army Medical Museum at 

 Washington. 



Mr. Emerton was author of "The 

 Structure and Habits of Spiders," 

 published in 1878; "Common Spiders 

 of the United States," 1092, and 

 other works. From 1906 to 1919 he 

 was secretary of the New England 

 Federation of Natural History So- 

 cieties. His sole survivor is a brother, 

 Professor Ephraim Emerton, of Har- 

 ] vard University. 



