﻿PHILIP 
  PEARSALL 
  CARPENTER 
  11 
  

  

  meetings 
  of 
  the 
  Britisli 
  Association 
  for 
  Advancement 
  of 
  Science, 
  where 
  he 
  was 
  

   of 
  great 
  help 
  in 
  arrangements, 
  and 
  continued 
  lecturing 
  and 
  some 
  preaching. 
  

  

  On 
  October 
  26, 
  1865, 
  he 
  and 
  his 
  family 
  sailed 
  from 
  England 
  for 
  Montreal 
  

   where 
  he 
  spent 
  the 
  remainder 
  of 
  his 
  life 
  except 
  for 
  one 
  trip 
  Home 
  in 
  1874. 
  In 
  

   1866, 
  he 
  was 
  approached 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  a 
  professorship 
  of 
  natural 
  history 
  at 
  Cornell 
  

   University, 
  ithaca, 
  New 
  York. 
  But 
  his 
  ties 
  were 
  too 
  strong 
  in 
  Alontreal 
  for 
  him 
  

   to 
  shift 
  to 
  Yankeeland. 
  His 
  health 
  declined 
  gradually 
  until 
  he 
  finally 
  succumbed 
  

   to 
  typhoid 
  fever, 
  May 
  24, 
  1877. 
  

  

  In 
  exchanging 
  ]\Iazatlan 
  shells 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  extensive 
  arrangement 
  of 
  duplicate 
  

   sets 
  for 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  Carpenter 
  accumulated 
  an 
  extensive 
  collec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  his 
  own. 
  Although 
  he 
  had 
  mounted 
  and 
  arranged 
  the 
  greater 
  portion 
  of 
  

   his 
  collection, 
  which 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Redpath 
  Museum 
  at 
  AIcGill 
  University, 
  his 
  death 
  

   ended 
  the 
  work. 
  His 
  early 
  death 
  also 
  prevented 
  the 
  finishing 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  and 
  au- 
  

   thoritative 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  chitons 
  which 
  was 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  published 
  by 
  the 
  Smith- 
  

   sonian 
  Institution. 
  The 
  work 
  was 
  in 
  manuscript 
  form 
  with 
  the 
  illustrations 
  

   drawn, 
  but 
  it 
  had 
  not 
  reached 
  the 
  final 
  written 
  stage 
  for 
  publication. 
  Much 
  of 
  the 
  

   information 
  was 
  published 
  by 
  Dall, 
  in 
  his 
  smaller 
  chiton 
  articles, 
  and 
  by 
  Pilsbry, 
  

   in 
  his 
  chiton 
  monographs. 
  Both 
  had 
  access 
  to 
  Carpenter's 
  manuscript 
  and 
  illus- 
  

   trations, 
  and 
  both 
  used 
  his 
  notes 
  freely, 
  with 
  appreciative 
  acknowledgment, 
  and 
  

   witii 
  more 
  credit 
  to 
  Carpenter 
  than 
  a 
  strict 
  application 
  of 
  international 
  zoological 
  

   nomenclatural 
  rules 
  will 
  allow. 
  

  

  Philip 
  Carpenter, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  Ph. 
  D. 
  granted 
  by 
  the 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  

   University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  was 
  a 
  corresponding 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Acad- 
  

   emy 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences 
  of 
  Philadelphia, 
  the 
  California 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences, 
  

   and 
  the 
  Lyceum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History 
  in 
  the 
  City 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  He 
  was 
  an 
  hon- 
  

   orary 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  Society 
  of 
  Northumberland, 
  Durham, 
  and 
  

   Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
  

  

  ASSOCIATION 
  WITH 
  INSTITUTIONS 
  AND 
  COLLECTIONS 
  

   Mazatlan 
  collection. 
  — 
  In 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1855, 
  with 
  the 
  help 
  of 
  his 
  brother-in- 
  

   law, 
  Mr. 
  Herbert 
  Thomas, 
  Carpenter 
  purchased 
  for 
  50 
  pounds 
  the 
  famous 
  Ma- 
  

   zatlan 
  Collection 
  of 
  shells. 
  Up 
  to 
  that 
  period, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  Hugh 
  Cum- 
  

   ing's 
  material, 
  it 
  was 
  the 
  greatest 
  collection 
  ever 
  taken 
  to 
  Europe. 
  The 
  specimens 
  

   had 
  been 
  gathered 
  with 
  care 
  b}- 
  Frederick 
  Reigen, 
  a 
  Belgian, 
  from 
  1848 
  to 
  1850 
  

   at 
  Mazatlan, 
  Gulf 
  of 
  California. 
  Practically 
  all 
  had 
  been 
  taken 
  alive. 
  Carpenter 
  

   (1864b, 
  p. 
  540) 
  noted 
  in 
  his 
  discussion 
  of 
  Major 
  Rich 
  (U. 
  S. 
  Expl. 
  Exped.) 
  that 
  

   Rich 
  had 
  met 
  Reigen 
  at 
  Mazatlan 
  and 
  had 
  reported 
  that 
  Reigen 
  had 
  been 
  called 
  

   before 
  the 
  police 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  stench 
  from 
  the 
  decomposing 
  mollusks 
  on 
  his 
  

   premises. 
  The 
  collection 
  contained 
  few 
  strays, 
  and 
  large 
  numbers 
  of 
  individuals 
  of 
  

   the 
  species 
  made 
  it 
  a 
  unique 
  series 
  to 
  illustrate 
  suites 
  of 
  variation. 
  For 
  details 
  of 
  

   the 
  collection 
  and 
  the 
  catalogue 
  which 
  Carpenter 
  published 
  on 
  it. 
  see 
  Carpenter's 
  

   Report 
  to 
  British 
  Association 
  for 
  1856 
  (1857b), 
  the 
  Mazatlan 
  Catalogue 
  

   (1857a), 
  Report 
  to 
  P.ritish 
  Association 
  for 
  1863 
  (1864b), 
  and 
  Palmer 
  (1951,). 
  

   Carpenter 
  described 
  222 
  new 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  IMazatlan 
  Catalogue 
  (1857) 
  and 
  

   listed 
  694 
  species. 
  The 
  first 
  collection 
  consisted 
  of 
  8873 
  specimens 
  mounted 
  on 
  

  

  