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of Lowell of which he was cashier, until, in 1896, he retired from 

 active business. 



In 1874 he married Miss M. Louise Dow, who survives him. They 

 had no children of their own, but they loved children and adopted a 

 son George, who was drowned at the age of twenty-four, in March, 

 1904. This was the first of a series of misfortunes which came to 

 them in recent years, yet they bore all their afflictions with quiet forti- 

 tude, sustained by the perfect understanding and love between them. 



A few years before his retirement from the banking business, they 

 built a very comfortable home at Tyngsboro, on the Merrimac River, 

 a few miles north of Lowell. A fine grove of pine trees completely 

 shut off the Nashua road from view, and here surrounded by the 

 woods and fields, and his large garden, he lived the last twenty years 

 of his life. 



Mr. Blanchard was a Coleopterist of the old school, not a special- 

 ist, but thoroughly familiar with all families of the order, and with 

 all the literature. His collection of local species was very complete, 

 most carefully and neatly mounted and labeled, thoroughly studied 

 and correctly determined by himself. 



He travelled little, but when away used diligently every oppor- 

 tunity for collecting beetles, and his local collection was finely sup- 

 plemented by extensive series from the White Mountains of his own 

 collecting, and from Highlands, Macon Co., N. C, where, at an eleva- 

 tion of 3,800 feet, he and his brother spent several summers. Of 

 recent years he used to visit the Appalachian Camp on Three Mile 

 Island in Lake Winnepesaukee, N. H., with Mr. Emerton, and there, 

 as everywhere, he did remarkably thorough collecting. 



He did not publish a great deal, though some of his observations 

 appeared from time to time in the various entomological journals. 

 In 1885 he presented (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XII) a table of 

 the species of Canthon and Phancrus. and in 1889 (Trans. Amer. Ent. 

 Soc, Vol. XVI) a revision of the genus Cardiophorus, of which he 

 described twelve new species. 



But his great knowledge of our North American Coleoptera was 

 ever at the disposal of his many friends and correspondents, old and 

 young. No man ever wrote a more charming letter. There was no 

 constraint, no attempt at abbreviation, but instead, always an easy 

 and conversational style. His letters were neatly and closely written. 



