PERCY GARDNER BOLSTER 
August 20, 1865-May 22, 1932 
Percy Gardner Bolster, son of the late Judge S. A, 
Bolster and Sarah Gardner Bolster, died in Boston, May 22, 
1932, at 66 years of age. He was educated at the Roxbury 
Latin School and Harvard College, where he received the 
degree of A. B., summa cum laude , in 1886. He was a 
member of Phi Beta Kappa. Following the wishes of his 
father, he entered the Harvard Medical School, and while 
there he received the degree of A. M. Following his in- 
clination for law he later left the Medical School and en- 
tered the Harvard Law School. He passed the Bar exam- 
inations at the end of his second year, and started prac- 
ticing immediately. 
He was a member of numerous clubs, including the Cam- 
bridge Entomological Club, to which he was elected (from 
the Harris Club) in 1903, and of which he was a member 
until his death. He was president for 1909 and 1913, and 
on the executive committee six times. As retiring presi- 
dent, in January 1910, he read a paper on the history of 
the Club. The manuscript of the paper, which contains 
much valuable information, has been presented to the club. 
As an entomologist Mr. Bolster was first interested in 
Lepidoptera, later in Hymenoptera, and finally and most 
deeply in Coleoptera. He collected extensively, especially in 
New England, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. His manu- 
script list of the beetles he had collected in Newfoundland 
was used by Sherman in compiling a list of Labrador Cole- 
optera in 1910. Two insects collected by Mr. Bolster bear 
his name: Bombus bolsteri Franklin and Dolichopus bol- 
steri Van Duzee, Cole & Aldrich. In 1917, after fire had 
