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masterly in execution, inspiring in word and deed; but in science — 

 the pursuit of truth — it must not be done blindly, it is necessary 

 to preserve an unbiased attitude and accept or reject conclusions 

 independently. 



Personally Mr. Scudder was the highest type of a scholarly 

 gentleman: a broad-minded, dignified, cultivated, courteous 

 savant, in whom were united the finest attributes of the scholar 

 and man of science; yet genial withal, and most kind and helpful 

 to the inquiring student. Well do I remember the cordial welcome 

 he extended to me, an unknown quantity, in response to the rat-a- 

 tat of his laboratory knocker, — that quaint conceit, a knocker 

 in the form of a locust, beating upon the door with its hind legs ! — 

 when I first called upon him, as well as the many delightful hours 

 spent there afterward in the study of his collection. His unrivaled 

 library, rich in everything entomological and as complete as 

 possible in his specialty; his collection, unequaled in America, 

 containing specimens from the ends of the earth; and most of all 

 the man himself, well-versed in many branches of the science, 

 made his laboratory the Mecca of every entomologist, resident 

 or migrant, native or foreign. 



In those days (the 90's) the Cambridge Entomological Club 

 met there, its members few but determined to keep the lamp alive 

 and maintain the high traditions of an earlier time. Mr. Scudder 

 was a host in himself; Roland Hay ward, now with the great major- 

 ity, was very regular in attendance ; Mr. Henshaw came frequently, 

 less often in the later years; Messrs. Bowditch and Emerton, still 

 with us, occasionally appeared; rarely, birds of passage visiting 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology or Mr. Scudder himself, 

 among them Dr. Geo. H. Horn, Prof. Lawrence Bruner, and other 

 entomologists of note; and among the younger men, while resident 

 in Cambridge, I recall especially J. W. Folsom and W. L. Tower, 

 both of whom have since made their mark. 



This period was at the flood tide of Mr. Scudder 's productive- 

 ness on the orthoptera. Never a meeting passed but that he had 

 something to communicate; — additional or newly worked material, 

 new discoveries based on his studies, or notes of interest gleaned 

 from his wide reading of entomological literature. Those were 

 indeed, golden days 



