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each separate wing were great. When my drawings came to him 

 for criticism, I was astonished, again and again, at his extreme 

 accuracy; a vein a hundredth of an inch from its proper position 

 was always noted. 



Another characteristic was a quiet humor; witness his selection 

 of the lines from the "Dunciad" which appears on the title page of 

 his Nomenclature Zoologicus : 



Index learning turns no student pale 

 Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. 



Then there was the case of the hairy fossil which he regarded as a 

 myriapod and described as Trichiulus. Later he came to believe 

 that he had been deceived by a bit of a fern, and I recall the way 

 in which he said that the name selected was indicative of his error; 

 he should have spelled it Tricky lulus. 



Scudder was most helpful to young naturalists. He could always 

 find plenty of time to aid them over their difficulties. Speci- 

 mens would be brought out, books hauled down and all of his rich 

 stores of knowledge called upon. In larger affairs his judgment 

 was always good and he bore a large part in all of the societies with 

 which he was connected. 



There were many sorrows in his life. Married in 1867 to Miss 

 Jeannie Blatchford, they had one of the most charming of homes 

 in Cambridge. But soon the wife sickened. The Riviera was 

 visited in search of health but in vain, and she died when the only 

 child, Gardner Hubbard Scudder, was a small boy. The boy grew 

 up, graduated at Harvard and Harvard Medical School, and began 

 work as an intern in the hospital, when he was attacked by an 

 infectious disease to which he succumbed at the very outset of his 

 active life. Then came, about 1896, the first stages of the disease 

 which was to continue through his life, increasing gradually in 

 severity, until, in a few years, all work was impossible and friends 

 could be allowed but two or three minutes' conversation with him. 

 He realized his condition, knew that his work was done, and so 

 he gave away his collections and library and patiently waited for 

 the end. His collections went to the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology; his library to the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 those that were duplicated there passing to Williams College. At 

 last, on May 17, 1911, he was relieved from his sufferings. 



