264 Scientific Intelligence. 



extracts from the works discussed and by other additions. They 

 will be read with much interest by the layman, as well as by the 

 physician, for they give a most interesting account of the early 

 practice of medicine and surgery in England prior to the Norman 

 Conquest, when this practice seemed to be largely based on the 

 use of herbs and on superstition. The accounts given, with 

 extracts, of the Leech Book of Bald and Cid (900-950) and of 

 the Herbarium of Apuleius (1000-1050) deserve careful attention, 

 as well as the representation of favorite plants, often in conven- 

 tionalized and attractive artistic form. 



10. Studies in General Physiology ; by Jacques Loeb. Decen- 

 nial Publications of the University of Chicago, vol. xv. Chicago, 

 1905. In two parts, I, pp. 1-423 ; Part II, pp. 425-782. Advance 

 sheets of this work have arrived as the present number is going 

 to press ; a notice is necessarily deferred. 



11. Early Stages of Carabidae ; by George Dimmock and 

 Frederick Knab. Springfield, Mass., 1904. — This memoir, illus- 

 trated by four plates, forms Bulletin No. 1 of the Springfield 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Obituary. 



Alpheus Spring Packard, Professor of Zoology and Geology 

 in Brown University, died at his home in Providence, R. I., 

 February 14, 1905, at the age of nearly sixty-six years. 



Professor Packard was a son of the late Professor Alpheus 

 Spring Packard of Bowdoin College, and was born at Brunswick, 

 Me., February 19, 1839. He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1861, 

 and from the Maine Medical School and the Lawrence Scientific 

 School in 1864. At Cambridge he was one of that remarkable 

 group of students — Hyatt, Morse, Packard, Putnam, Scudder, 

 Shaler and Verrill — associated with the elder Agassiz in the early 

 sixties. He served for a time in 1864-5 as Assistant Surgeon in 

 the U. S. Army, but never became a regular practitioner of medi- 

 cine, his life being devoted to his chosen work in zoology and 

 geology. An enthusiastic field naturalist, collector, and explorer, 

 as well as a very voluminous author who wrote on a remarkably 

 wide range of subjects, he was specially distinguished as an 

 entomologist. He is most widely known, and will probably be 

 longest remembered, for his original work on insects and his sev- 

 eral text-books on entomology and zoology. Early in his career 

 he accepted the theory of evolution and later became an ardent 

 neo-Lamarckian. One of his last works was, "Lamarck, the 

 Founder of Evolution, His Life and Work." He was one of the 

 founders of the American Naturalist, for twenty years its chief 

 editor, and a constant contributor to its pages. 



Professor Packard was a member of the National Academy of 

 Sciences and of many European societies. Before his appoint- 

 ment at Brown in 1878, he was successively Librarian and Cus- 

 todian of the Boston Society of Natural History, Director of the 

 Peabody Academy of Science, State Entomologist of Mass., and 

 a member of the IT. S. Entomological Commission. s. i. s. 



