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remember and imitate the splendid courtesy 

 of the fine old men we have known! 



I only saw Scudder once after he was 

 stricken with paralysis, and his work was 

 done. This was in 190Y, at the time of the 

 Zoological Congress in Boston. I was allowed 

 to talk with him for three minutes only, but 

 in those minutes he enquired after various old 

 friends in the west, and looked at some new 

 fossils from his old-time hunting ground at 

 Florissant. He at once recognized the rela- 

 tionships of the fossil Nemopterid, although 

 he had never seen such a fossil before; and 

 being shown an excellent example of his own 

 genus Holcorpa, said " that is a better one 

 than mine." I mention these facts to show 

 that his mind was still active, although he 

 was physically unable to work and mentally 

 incapable of any continuous strain. It is one 

 of the most pathetic facts in the history of 

 science that for seven years this great nat- 

 uralist remained paralyzed and helpless, with 

 so much of the work he had planned to do still 

 unfinished. 



Scudder's life was in many respects peace- 

 ful and happy, but he suffered much. Dr. C. 

 J. S. Bethune has recently written the follow- 

 ing :^ " When the writer first came within the 

 charmed circle of which Dr. Scudder was the 

 center, some forty years ago, he and his young 

 wife were living in Cambridge. Not long 

 after, on account of her delicate health, they 

 went to the south of France, and enjoyed for 

 a time the balmy climate of the Riviera; but 

 health was not restored, and soon the much- 

 loved wife was taken away. Tears after he 

 experienced another bitter sorrow in the death 

 of his only child, who had entered upon a 

 physician's career with every prospect of 

 attaining distinction in medical science." 

 Scudder's son died of rapid tuberculosis, and 

 I remember well when every letter, mainly 

 about Orthoptera, would contain something 

 about him. This loss came nearly at the end 

 of Scudder's active life, and he never was 

 quite himself again. 



I have thought it useful to prepare a very 

 brief chronological summary of Dr. Scudder's 



' Canadian Entomologist, July, 1911. 



life, in order to show in some measure the 

 character and volume of his work. 

 1837. Born at Boston, Mass., April 13. 



1857. A.B. at Williams College. 



1858. Published list of terrestrial MoUusca found 

 at Williamstown, in Williams Quarterly. 

 This, his first published paper, appears to be 

 his only one on MoUusea. 



1859. Eeport to Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory on the collection of insects of T. W. 

 Harris. (First entomological contribution.) 



1860. A.M. at "Williams College. Index to Ento- 

 mological Writings of T. W. Harris. (Hagen 

 wrongly dates this 1859.) 



1861. First paper on Orthoptera {Froc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist.). North American Fieris; 

 the first paper on butterflies. 



1862. B.S., Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard 

 University. Assistant to Louis Agassiz at 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology (1862-64). 

 Materials for Monograph of North American 

 Orthoptera (71 pp.). Scudder's famous 

 sketch, "In the Laboratory with Agassiz," 

 was published in Every Saturday, 1874, and 

 reprinted many times. 



1863. Insect Fauna of White Mountains. List of 

 Butterflies of New England. 



1864. Became custodian, Boston Society of Nat- 

 ural History, and held this position until 

 1870. 



1865. First contribution on fossil insects: De- 

 vonian [now considered Carboniferous] In- 

 sects of New Brunswick. 



1866. First discovered fossil neuropterous insects 

 in North America. Dragon-flies from Isle of 

 Pines and White Mountains. 



1868. Carboniferous (fossil) insects. Catalogue 



of Orthoptera of North America. Century 



of Orthoptera (1868-79). 

 1S69. Edited Entomological Correspondence of 



T. W. Harris. New Orthoptera from the 



Andes. 



1870. Scudder and Burgess on Genitalia of Ni- 

 soniades. 



1871. Systematic Eevision of some of the Amer- 

 ican Butterflies. 



1872. Fossil Butterfly from France. 



1873. Carboniferous (fossil) Myriapods. 



1875. General Secretary of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science. His- 

 torical Sketch of Generic Names proposed for 

 Butterflies. Fossil Butterflies. Orthoptera 

 from Northern Peru. 



