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TIIK HOME OF A FAMOUS F.\'l'OMOLO(; 1ST., 
Just .south of Boston, ill tlio .suhiirhini village of .Milton, is the house in whieh 
'riiaddens William Harris lived during thos<‘ fruitful years when he divided his time 
between the practice of medicine and the study of entomology. In this house he 
estahlished his famous collection -in its day prohahly the best arranged in .\mer- 
iea — and wrote the lirst de.scription of many important .\meriean insects. Here 
he aecninniated volumes of accurate records of his observations, and made with his 
own hand long tran.scriptions from borrowed copies of books whieh he eonid not 
purcliase. 'riiough the cla.ssic “ 'rreati.se, on Insects Injurious to Vegetation ” was 
not written until after Dr. Harris’s removal to (’ainbridge, it was during his resi- 
dence in this hou.se that much of the material for it was gathered. 
The house has had an eventful history, and has been a familiar landmark to 
Bostonians for a hundri'd and thirty years. 'Fhe attention of the |)asser-by is attracted 
to it by the fine old elms by which it is sheltered, and by a marble tablet setting forth 
the fact that it was here that the famous Suffolk Resolves were adopted, in 1774, by 
a meeting over which (bmeral Joseph \Varren presided. No tablet tells of its having 
been the home of one of the pioneers of American .Science; but residents of the 
village long cherished the memory of the kindly country doctor who for si.xteen 
years lived and worked among them. 
Dr. Harris has been a])tly called “the (lilbert White of New England.” To 
every naturalist the scene of liis patient labors is historic ground. 
W'. L. W. F. 
* Air. F, A. Frizell of Boston has kindly permitted the use of the cut liere presented. 
