JOURNAL 



OF THE 



jOpfD ]9oFh ^jnl^omologiral %mM^. 



Vol. XXV. JUNE, 1917. No. 2. 



A FEW MEMORIES. II. 



By Annie Trumbull Slosson, 

 New York, N. Y. 



It was in the early days of my interest in entomology that I first 

 met Prof. A. S. Packard. The details of our meeting were somewhat 

 amusing. I was at Enterprise, in Florida. My brother-in-law, Dr. 

 William C. Prime, was with me, taking, as usual, much interest in 

 my pursuits and collecting for me with earnestness and skill. 



One afternoon when he came in from a fishing trip he told me he 

 had met a man with a butterfly net looking for insects, and had a chat 

 with him. With an amateur's conceit and self-satisfaction he had 

 given the stranger some points and stated a few elementary facts in 

 entomology. At parting the newcomer had presented his card and 

 my brother produced it. Fancy my surprise when I saw the name 

 of A. S. Packard for whom I, as a beginner, had unbounded rever- 

 ence and admiration. When I exclaimed " Why that is the great 

 entomologist. I have one of his books here with me now," the uncon- 

 vinced tyro said: " Well, he did not act as if he knew much, took my 

 hints gladly and thanked me for them." And this well illustrates the 

 man's modesty and kindliness. He was staying at the same hotel, the 

 old Brock House, and there began a friendship between us which 

 lasted the rest of his life. We went out together for a walk the 

 next day. We were talking quietly, he telling me of meeting some 

 friends of mine in Europe, and I speaking of their characteristics. 

 Not a suggestion of anything entomological showed in our talk and 



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