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FRANCIS GREGORY SANBORN. 



Born iS Jan. 183S, at Andover, Mass. 

 Died 4 Jnne 1884. at Providence. R. I. 



Francis (jretjon' Sanborn was the son of 

 Eastman and Mary C. L. (Gregory) Sanborn. 

 His tather died in 1859: his mother, to whom 

 he was ilutil'iil and affectionate, in 1883. Mr. 

 .Sanliorn was a devoted and affable friend to 

 Ills associates, a genins and a close observer, 

 lie used his talents often for the good of 

 others, but little for his own worldlv advance- 

 ment. His interest in natural history was of 

 early development, gi\"ing occasion for re- 

 mark and record in his mother's journal when 

 he was but little more than three years old. 

 It was constant and absorbing. leading him to 

 abandon opportunities for private gain, such 

 as that of succeeding to his father's practice 

 as a dentist, for which he had fitted himself 

 and b\' which he might have prospered pecun- 

 iarily. 



Mr. Sanborn was widelv known to the en- 

 tomologists of the eastern United States, and 

 almost constantly engaged in the care orpi'e- 

 paration of collections of insects or other 

 objects of natural history belonging to public 



institutions or private possessors. He was 

 graduated at Phillips academy, in Andover, 

 Mass., in 1858. after a six 3'ears' course of 

 study interrupted at times on account of ill 

 health. In October 1S5S he found employment 

 in the Massachusetts State cabinet of natural 

 history at the state house in Boston, the 

 collection in which, according to Governor 

 N. P. Banks, he built up. Here he remained, 

 with occasional vacations, until the summer 

 of 1865, being also clerk to C. L. Flint, the 

 secretary of the Massachusetts State board 

 of agriculture. He was engaged in miscella- 

 neous work in the museum of the Boston 

 society of natural history in 1865 and 1S66 

 and as regular assistant from 1867 to 1873, 

 ha\'ing particular care of the insects, also 

 performing general duties, lecturing, and at 

 times acting as secretary. In 1872 he was 

 a justice of 'the peace and a member of the 

 school committee in West Roxbury, Mass. 

 ■\t this time also he was instructor in ento- 

 mology at the Bussey institution, in Jamaica 

 Plain, and lecturerat the Museum of compar- 

 ative zoology in Cambridge, but was soon 

 afterwards afl'ected with mental trouble which 

 caused his seclusion, at private expense, for 

 about seven months, at the state hospital in 

 Worcester. Here he entered into relations 

 with the Worcester society of natural history, 

 of which he afterwards became curator, an 

 ofHce he held at the time of his death. In 

 1874 he was an assistant in tlie Kentucky 

 state geological survey, under Professor N. 

 .S. Shaler. In 1S76 he was engaged to pre- 

 pare the entomological exhibit of the United 

 States Department of agriculture for the Cen- 

 tennial exposition at Philadelphia. 



lie was a member of the .American asso- 

 ciation for the ad\'ancement of science, Bos- 

 ton society of natural history, Cambridge 

 entomological club. Essex institute, corres- 

 ponding member of the American entomo- 

 logical society, Entoinological society of 

 Ontario, and New York entomological socie- 

 t\', and member of other learned societies. 



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