12 Annals Entomological Society of America [Vol. V, 
RESOLUTIONS 
ON THE DEATH OF SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER. 
It is with profound sorrow that we record the death on May 
the 17th, 1911, of Dr. Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Born of fine 
lineage in the city of Boston on April the 13th, 1837, he was 
graduated at Williams College in 1857, taking the degree of B. A., 
and in 1862 from Harvard, taking the degree of B.S. He was 
one of the favorite pupils and assistants of the late Professor 
Louis Agassiz. He was the Secretary of the Boston Society 
of Natural History from 1862 until 1870, during much of this 
period being also the Curator of the Museum; and from 1880 to 
1887 he served as the President of the Society. From 1879 to 
1882 he was the Assistant Librarian of Harvard University. 
From 1886 to 1892 he held the position of Paleontologist of the 
United States Geological Survey. His scientific and literary 
industry was prodigious. His entomological works deal princi- 
pally with the Lepidoptera, the Orthoptera, and fossil insects. 
He placed American biologists under everlasting indebtedness 
to him by the preparation of the ‘‘Nomenclator Zoologicus”’, 
and by many bibliographies and indices. - His great work *‘ The 
Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada with special 
Reference to New England’’, and his magnificent volumes 
upon the “Pretertiary and Tertiary Fossil) Insects of Nort 
America’ will always remain classical. Honors were abund- 
antly bestowed upon him by learned societies both in America and 
Europe, and he received many richly deserved academic degrees. 
Reviewing his work in its entirety, 1t constitutes one of the 
most notable contributions made by a single individual to the 
literature of biological science during the past fifty years. It is 
a monument attesting the vast learning and the colossal indus- 
try of a man, who in circumstances which did not entail upon 
him the necessity for labor, dignified his life by consecrating 
his noble. powers to the advancement of human knowledge. 
Though suffering the keenest domestic bereavements, and 
during the last years of his life compelled to undergo a living 
martyrdom through paralysis both of hands and feet, he 
preserved to the last his cheerful disposition and an unclouded 
intellect. His death came as a gentle release from suffering, 
leaving our Society and the world the richer by his example of 
patience and the fruits of his toil; the poorer by his removal 
hence. (Signed) W. J. HoLLAnp; 
Ce ej.20. -BbETHUNE: 
