30 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 



In 1890 Samuel Henshaw (1852-) took over the care of the 

 entomological collections, and later (1899) of the Library of the 

 Museum. In 1903 he became the Institution's Curator, a title 

 which was changed to "Director" in 191 1. Until 1916, when 

 Nathan Banks was appointed Curator of Entomology, Henshaw 

 evinced a keen interest in the subject. He is well known among ento- 

 mologists as the author in 1885 of a complete list of the known North 

 American Coleoptera, a work to which he added supplements in 

 1886, 1889 and 1895. He is also the author of a very useful bibliog- 

 raphy of economic entomology in 5 parts, four of which were issued 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1890, the fifth in 

 1896. 



Since Thomas Barbour succeeded Henshaw as Director of the 

 Museum in 1927, the collections, under Banks' curatorship, have 

 been moved into much more commodious quarters and have been 

 increased to such an extent that three assistant curators have been 

 added to the staff: Dr. P. J. Darlington has taken charge of the 

 Coleoptera, Dr. M. Bates of the Lepidoptera and Dr. F. M. Car- 

 penter of the fossil insects, while Miss E. B. Bryant has charge of the 

 great aggregation of Arachnids. 



Turning to the Bussey Institution at Forest Hills, we find that, as 

 early as 1871-72, the first year of its existence as an undergraduate 

 school of agriculture and horticulture, there was an instructorship of 

 entomology, which was held by Francis G. Sanborn. This instruc- 

 torship was permitted to lapse, however, in 1872, because much of 

 the income of the Institution had been lost as a result of the great 

 Boston fire. In 1879 the position was revived and given to Edward 

 Burgess (1848-91), who taught till 1882 and again from 1883 to 

 1884. Burgess' services to the Boston Society of Natural History as its 

 secretary, as an insect morphologist and subsequently as a naval ar- 

 chitect were noteworthy.' Scudder seems to have aroused his interest 

 in insect anatomy, which is the theme of most of the 22 papers he 

 published. His most important contribution deals with the anatomy 

 of our common milkweed butterfly (1880). He also edited (1875) the 

 writings of the pioneer arachnologist and entomologist, Nicholas 

 Marcellus Hentz (i 795-1 856). 



' S. Scudder, "The Services of Edward Burgess to Natural Science," Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 25, 1891, pp. 358-364. 



