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may not have been entirely pertinent. Yet his connection with the economic 
side of the study e.xtends back to 1871, the date of his first report on the injurious 
and beneficial insects of Massachusetts; and even before that he had written on 
the subject. 
The most important contribution in this branch is the Volume on Forest 
Insects, published as one of the Reports of the Entomological Commission. 
This e.xhibits very strongly the painstaking method of gathering all recorded facts 
and of securing information from all possible sources. As a record of what is 
known or has been written concerning insects feeding on forest trees in the Uni- 
ted States it is a most useful work. The weak point is the absence of a general 
scheme of remedial measures or forest management which may be applied with 
necessary modifications in special instances, to lessen or prevent injury. 
Dr. Packard, while not without considerable experience in field work, was not 
a good field collector and observer of habits, and certainly not a good museum 
preparator. He was essentially a student of specimens, living and dead and of 
the phenomena exhibited by them. 
I will make no attempt to give even a partial list of his more important 
works; it will suffice to say that the student who is entirely familiar with what 
Dr. Packard has written is, by virtue of that knowledge alone, a good entomologist. 
