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J. H. Emerton 
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in London in 1882. At New Haven in 1884 he married 
Mary A. Hills, and shortly thereafter moved to Boston, 
which was henceforth his home. His wife died in 1898. 
He did much modeling for medical colleges and made 
drawings for many persons; as Minot’s Textbook of Em- 
bryology, Verrill’s Marine Invertebrates, Scudder’s Butter- 
flies of New England, Peckham’s papers on spiders, and 
many for the U. S. Fish Commission. He was active in 
various natural history organizations and became an im- 
portant factor in furthering interest in local science. 
Left. J. H. Emerton and F. Blanchard (about 1905). Right. J. H. 
Emerton, from a later photograph. 
He began to travel more widely, visiting the West Indies 
in 1893 with Alexander Agassiz, going with Morse in 1902 
to the Southern States, in 1905 to the Californian Moun- 
tains, in 1914 to the Canadian Rockies, in 1920 to the Hud- 
son Bay Region. On these and numerous shorter trips he 
industriously collected spiders. 
He became much interested in a Federation of New Eng- 
land Natural History Societies, and this he considered as 
the most useful way of stimulating interest in Natural 
