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HERBERT KNOWLES MORRISON. 



Born 24 Jan. 1S54, at Boston, Mass. 

 Died 15 June 1SS5, at Moi-ganton, N. C. 



Herbert Knowles Morrison was the eldest of 

 the six children of William Albert and Marv 

 Elizabeth Morrison (nee Butler), of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. In early life he .showed an ob- 

 serving and practical turn of mind, and when 

 not more than twelve years of age employed 

 all his time out of school in hunting for in- 

 sects. In later years he made a special study 

 of noctuid moths, preparing his specimens 

 with great neatness; and from 1S73 to 1S75 he 

 contributed largely to the literature of that 

 subject in this country. After 1S76 he pub- 

 lished little, and apparently nothing later 

 than 1SS3. He was one of the original mem- 

 bers of the Cambridge entomological club, 

 and was also a member of the Boston society 

 of natural history. He was a member of 

 the first excursion party of the Cambridge 

 entomological club to Mount Washington, 

 in 1S74, and seems to have determined from 

 his experience at that time to devote himself 

 entirely to the collection and sale of insects 



as a means of gaining his livelihood. He 

 was a most diligent and energetic collector, 

 as was shown by his success in 1S75, when 

 ho returned to the White INIountains early in 

 the season, and came back late with 20,000 

 specimens. In 1S76. he ^ isited the southern 

 L'liited States expressly to explore the field 

 which Jolin Abbot had made famous. His 

 captures there were doubly successful, for he 

 found occasion to return there the next jear 

 to be married^ and he made his home there 

 ever after. In 1874 he collected insects in 

 Colorado, in 1878 in Nevada, in 1S79 '" Wash- 

 ington territory, near the close of the season 

 losing his entire collection and outfit by fire, 

 in iSSo in Washington territory and south- 

 ern Calitbrnia. in iSSi in Arizona and south- 

 ern California, in 1SS2 in New Mexico, in 

 1S83 in Florida, in 1S84 near Key West, Fla., 

 and later in Nevada, in the spring of 1885 at 

 Key West where he had an attack of dysen- 

 tery wdiich proved fatal. He was a verv mus- 

 cular man. and endowed with wonderful 

 powers of endurance, whicli lie tat-ked to 

 the utmost. The physician who attended 

 him in his last illness, and who had been an 

 army surgeon, said that Morrison had the 

 finest physique of any man he ever saw. 

 Not infrequently he would walk forty miles 

 a day in pursuit of insects, and than would 

 take care of them before he slept, filling up 

 the time while thus engaged in capturing the 

 moths that were attracted to his light. His 

 collections have furnished abundant material 

 for the studies of many entomologists in 

 America and in Europe. A widow and two 

 daughters survive him. B: P. M. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



2g Aug. 1SS3 — ...The president [C. S. 

 Wilkinson, government geologist] exhibited 

 some specimens of fossil insects found in the 

 tin-bearing tertiary deep leads near Vegetable 



