MEMOIR. XXXV 



passed to a third generation ; he prepared with assiduous 

 labor, while in college, a volume containing the quaint epi- 

 taphs in the Cambridge churchyard ; he had also prepared 

 for publication a transcript of the still quainter inscriptions 

 of the old Watertown burial-ground, a work soon to be pub- 

 lished, under the supervision of his younger brother ; he had 

 projected a continuation of " Prince's Chronology,'' and at 

 the time of his early death in 1854, was already a Corre- 

 sponding Member of scA^eral European archseological societies. 

 He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar a few months before 

 his death, having pursued his legal studies in Cambridge. 



The scientific portion of the library of Dr. Harris — includ- 

 ing about two hundred and fifty volumes — was purchased 

 after his death by John P. Cushing, Esq., of Watertown, — 

 who was also the largest contributor for the purchase of 

 his cabinet and manuscripts, which also became the property 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History. The following de- 

 scription of the library was orally given to the Society by 

 the Curator of Entomology, on its reception : 



" Among tlie volumes is one containing all the rarer tracts of Say, most 

 of wliicli are extremely scarce ; among them his New Harmony pamphlets, 

 one of which (on the Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America) is prob- 

 ably the only copy in this country, if indeed it can be found anywhere else. 

 There is a volume of colored drawings by John Abbot, of the Lepidoptera 

 and Coleoptera of Georgia, presented to Dr. Harris by Edward Doublcday, 

 Esq., of England, containing all the originals of the drawings in 'Abbot 

 and Smith's rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Geoi'gia,' besides many others 

 yet unpublished. Most of the important European works are here, — such 

 as those of Fabricius, Herbst, Dejean, Boisduval, Macquart, Wiedemann, 

 Audinet-Serville, Sahlberg, Coquebert, Schonherr, Gory and Percheron, 



