PREFACE 



MiLLETT Taylor Thompson, Assistant Professor of Biology in the Collegiate Department of 

 Clark University, was born at Providence, R. L, August 27, 1875, and died at Wesley Hospital, 

 Chicago, 111., August 7, 1907. He was graduated from Brown University with A. B. in 1898, was 

 awarded A. M. in 1899 and Ph. D. in 1902. He was an instructor in that institution from 1898 

 to 1900 and spent nearly a year in research work at the American Museum of Natural History. 

 He was elected Honorary Fellow in Biology at Clark University in 1902 and was immediately 

 appointed Instructor in Biology in the Collegiate Department, being promoted to Assistant 

 Professor in 1906. Dr. Thompson was elected to Sigma Xi in 1900 and to membership in the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Boston Society of Natural History 



in 1902. 



Dr. Thompson, during his connection with Clark University, mounted a beautiful set of Atlantic 

 Coast Crustacea, restoring the colors by hand painting, and in collaboration with his friend, 

 Dr. Harvey N. Davis, Brown, '01, made a large collection of New England Insecta known as the 

 Thompson-Davis Entomological Collection and deposited with Clark University. (>her lines 

 of activity are indicated by the following list of pubHshed papers :i 



The Breeding Habits of Animals at Woods Hole during the Month of September, 1898. Science, 

 N. S., Vol. ix (1899), pp. 581-583. 



A New Isopod Parasite on the Hermit Crab. Contributions from the Biological Laboratory 

 of the United States Fish Commission, Washington, 1901, pp. 53-56, plates 9 and 10. 



A Rare Thalassinid and Its Larva. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 Vol. 31 (1903), pp. 1-21, plates 1-3. 



The Metamorphoses of the Hermit Crab. (Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at 

 Brown University.) Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 31 {mm, pp. 



147-209, plates 4-10. 



Alimentary Canal of the Mosquito. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 



Vol. 32 (1905), pp. 145-202, plates 12-17. 



Immature Specimens of Penella Filosa. Biological Bulletin, Vol. viii (1905), pp. 296-307. 

 Three Galls Made by Cyclorrhaphous Flies. Psyche, \o]. 14 (1907), pp. 71 74, figures _l-3. 



Dr. Thompson's largest work was a comprehensive study <if the galls and gall makos of Ainer- 

 • ica. Unfortunately only a portion of this investigation was c..nii)U>(e,l at th.' linu- i.f his death. 



•Most of this list is from Clark College Record, Vol. 2, No. 4, page 92, 1907. 



