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1876. Synopsis of North American Earwigs. 

 Critical and Historical Notes on Forficulariae. 



1877. Elected to National Academy of Sciences. 

 Tube-constructing Ground Spider from Nan- 

 tucket. 



1878. Bhachura, a new genus of fossil Crustacea 

 (from Coal Measures). 



1879. Assistant Librarian at Harvard (to 1882). 

 Catalogue of Scientific Serials of all Coun- 

 tries. George Dimmock published "The 

 Writings of Samuel Hubbard Scudder, " 

 enumerating 315 titles. 



1882. Nomenclator Zoologicus (1882-84). This 

 is a list of all the generic and family names 

 proposed for animals, and is simply inval- 

 uable to the zoologist. Archipolypoda, a sub- 

 ordinal type of spined Myriapods from the 

 Carboniferous. 



1883. Editor of Science (to 1885). He also 

 edited the entomological journal Psyche for 

 many years. 



1884. Paleozoic Arachnids. 



1885. Paleodietyoptera (Paleozoic Hesapoda). 



1886. Paleontologist to U. S. Geological Survey 

 (to 1892). Published "Winnepeg Country, 

 or Roughing it with an Eclipse Party," 

 under a pseudonym. 



1888. Paleozoic Cockroaches from Ohio. 



1889. Butterflies of the Eastern United States 

 and Canada, with special reference to New 

 England (3 volumes). This is, I suppose, the 

 finest work on any butterfly-fauna yet pub- 

 lished. It gives a most elaborate account of 

 every species, from all points of view, and is 

 enlivened by dissertations on general subjects 

 connected with entomology. It is also pro- 

 fusely and beautifully illustrated. 



1890. Fossil Insects of North America: The Pre- 

 tertiary Insects. Tertiary Insects of North 

 America. Bibliography of Fossil Insects. 

 Hon. ScD. at WUliams; LL.D. at Pittsburgh. 



1891. Index to the Known Fossil Insects of the 

 "World. 



1892. The Genus Hippiscus. 



1893. Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies 

 of the Northern United States and Canada. 

 The Life of a Butterfly. Orthoptera of 

 Galapagos Islands. The Tertiary Ehyncho- 

 phorous Coleoptera of the United States. 



1894. Vice-president of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. Tertiary 

 Tipulidse. North American Ceuthophili. 



1895. Canadian Fossil Insects. Revision of 



American Fossil Cockroaches. Miocene In- 

 sect-fauna of QEningen. 



1896. Mantidse of North America. North Amer- 

 ican Nemobius. 



1897. Revision of the Orthopteran Group Melan- 

 opli. Guide to the Genera and Classification 

 of the North American Orthoptera. 



1898. Alpine Orthoptera of North America. 



1899. Revisions of Schistocerca and Myrmeco- 

 phila. 



1900. Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera from 

 Tertiary Deposits at Florissant. Catalogue of 

 Described Orthoptera of the United States 

 and Canada. 



1901. Alphabetical Index to North American 

 Orthoptera. (A complete guide to the whole 

 literature of the subject to the end of the 

 nineteenth century.) 



1902. The last paper published: Scudder and 

 Cockerell, List of the Orthoptera of New 

 Mexico. Dr. Scudder 's last scientific work 

 was correcting the proofs of this paper. 



Scudder's Taxonomic Work 

 Scudder's taxonomic work was character- 

 ized by great precision and clearness of state- 

 ment. Everything was well arranged, and 

 every pertinent fact clearly given. Localities 

 and collectors were faithfully cited, and bib- 

 liographic references were exhaustive. It 

 would be well if some of our writers of the 

 present generation would study his methods, 

 simply regarded as models of presentation. 

 For certain of his views, Scudder was fre- 

 quently attacked, but he did not enter into 

 controversy. More especially, his treatment 

 of the genera of butterflies aroused a great 

 deal of opposition, for he upset much of the 

 current nomenclature and divided up the old 

 genera. To-day, much of this work is widely 

 accepted, and while it is probable that several 

 of his generic groups should not be regarded 

 as valid, there remains no doubt that he was 

 right in principle. He was, in fact, one of 

 the pioneers in the movement for more precise 

 classification, like Gill in fishes and Pilsbry 

 in Mollusca. 



It will be of interest to very briefly review 

 Scudder's work in different groups. 



Fishes. — While with Agassiz, Scudder 

 worked on fishes, and prepared some manu- 

 scripts which he did not publish. Some of this 



