HEXSH AW— ROLAND HAYWARD 
lOI 
1906] 
ROLAND HAYWARD. 
BY S.^MUEL HENSHAW, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
Roland Hayward, who died at Milton. Massachusetts, .\pril ii, [906, was 
horn in the house in which he died, March 7. 1865. The son of Isaac Davenport 
and Mary Bartlett ( \’ose ) Hayward, he was educated at the best private 
schools in Boston, and entered the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard Uni- 
versity, in 1882; though he continued his studies in Cambridge until his senior 
year, he did not attemjit, on account of ill health, the e.xaminations necessary for 
graduation, .\fter a brief service in a banking office, he became, on December 
30, 1887, a member of the Boston Stock Exchange; at first by himself, and later 
associated with Mr. W. S. Townsend, for fifteen years until his retirement. 
July I, 1902. his business relations were noted, as was his life, for the strictest 
integrity and loyalty. 
Though Hayward's love of nature can not be traced to any ancestor, the 
place of his birth may well have been influential ; for here, where the greater 
part of his life was passed, under the shadow of one of the most beautiful of 
the lesser hills of New England, he found keen enjoyment in rambling through 
the ])astures and meadows, for many generations the possession of his fore- 
fathers. Here the nucleus of his collections of birds' eggs, Initterflies. and 
beetles was gathered ; and here a pursuit, not unusual for a hoy, matured into 
the work of a scientific man, work that was conscientious and thorough, and 
unusual for one actively engaged in business, and thwarted by a severe physical 
illness. 
Though his active business career limited the number and extent of his 
holidays Hayward made collecting trips to Colorado, ^Manitoba, New Bruns- 
wick, and to many sections of New England, and by his own efforts accumulated 
a serviceable series of the Coleoptera of North America. This series was 
increased by gift, exchange, and judicious ]>urchase and by will devised to the 
Museum of Comjiarative Zoology. 
Roland Hayward, when a lad of less than fourteen, was admitted as a mem- 
ber of the Boston Society of Natural History, a Society whose exhibited collec- 
tions of New England insects did much to focus and cement his life interest in 
entomology, and to this institution he becpieathed from his library such works on 
entomology as were not already its ])ro])erty. He was a founder of the Boston 
Zoological Society, a short-lived Club of boys and young men, to whose credit- 
