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of which appeared in the Proceedings, the Occasional Papers 

 and the Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society, 

 and in the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 

 Arts and Letters. 



The earhest contribution on what may be broadly termed 

 "Animal Psychology" appeared about 1883, i" the Journal of 

 Morphology — a brief treatise on mental powers of spiders. 

 This was followed by several minor contributions in the publi- 

 cations of the Wisconsin Natural History Society, on both 

 wasps and spiders, a larger treatise on Sexual Selection and 

 Protective Resemblance (1890), and finally, by the epoch- 

 making work. "On the Instincts and Habits of Solitary Wasps." 

 Bulletin A^o. 2, IVisconsin Geological Survey, pp. 4 & 245, 

 14 pis., 1898. 



It is upon this last-named work that the Peckhams' chief 

 claim to fame rests. Based upon years of difficult and la- 

 borious observations, it bore at once the impress of scientist, 

 scholar and poet : the scientist analyzed, the scholar synthe- 

 sized, and the poet idealized. Just as the "Origin of Species" 

 has its fixed place as a classic of Biological Science, so the 

 Peckhams' "Habits of Solitary Wasps" bids fair to become 

 a classic of, at least, the psychological phase of animal study. 



Before this, scientific recognition had come to Dr. Peckham 

 in the form of the presidency of the Wisconsin Natural His- 

 tory Society and of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts 

 and Letters ; in 1896, the University of Wisconsin honored him 

 with the degree of Doctor of Laws. 



The trait of "nature student" dominated in Dr. Peckham's 

 life. To this he sacrificed the careers of lawyer and physician ; 

 to this he sacrificed his vacations and what leisure hours he 

 could spare from his arduous duties. Dr. Peckham, as the 

 writer knew him, was a small man, somewhat bent with age, 

 rheumatism and the close application necessitated by his my- 

 opia. The scholarly stoop, the silvery white hair, and the mod- 

 erate gait impressed everyone as attributes of a man who has 

 made his mark on the world. On public or semi-public occa- 

 sions the thoroughness and breadth of Dr. Peckham's infor- 



