PSYCHE 



VOL. XVIII. DECEMBER, 1911. No. 6 



SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER. 



By J. S. KiNGSLEY. 



The Scudders are an old New England family with its center 

 at Barnstable, on Cape Cod. Samuel Hubbard Scudder, the son 

 of Charles and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder, was born in Boston, 

 April 13, 1837. He received his early education in the Boston 

 Latin School and then, like two of his brothers, entered Williams 

 College, graduating from there with the class of 1857. David 

 Coit Scudder, of the class of 1855, became a missionary to India 

 and was drowned a few years after taking up his work. Horace 

 Elisha Scudder, of the class of 1858, was a man of letters and was 

 for some time the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. A third brother, 

 Charles, was long prominent in business in Boston, being for years 

 treasurer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History. 



The incentives to a scientific life were at that time great at Wil- 

 liams — probably as great as at any other American College. Eben- 

 ezer Emmons, the eminent geologist, was in charge of the instruc- 

 tion in natural history, while Albert Hopkins, the intellectual peer 

 of his better known brother, was a most enthusiastic student of 

 nature. Then there was a student scientific society, the Lyceum 

 of Natural History, founded in 1835, which was accumulating a 

 library and a museum. This had a great influence on Scudder as 

 it has on a long series of students who have aided in the develop- 

 ment of American science. 



One of the early works of the Lyceum was the preparation and 

 publication of a catalogue of the local fauna and flora. To this 

 catalogue, one of the rarest of American natural history papers, 

 Scudder contributed the list of molluscs of the neighborhood of 

 Williamstown. He also was of great assistance in the preparation 

 of other parts of the lists. 



Scudder had decided, before leaving college, to devote himself to 

 entomology, and with that end in view he went to Cambridge to 

 study with Agassiz, then in his prime. He has published an 



