Scudder.J 
358 
[Dec. 16, 
The President. No naturalist was more closely associated 
with the late Edward Burgess than Dr. Samuel H. Scudder, and 
to him we very naturally turn for a fitting tribute to his fellow 
student. 
THE SERVICES OF EDWARD BURGESS TO NATURAL 
SCIENCE. 
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 
Our President has asked me to say a few words to-night re- 
garding the scientific work of the late Mr. Edward Burgess, who 
served the Society so long as Secretary and Librarian. It may 
not be known to many of you that his term of service as Secre- 
tary was double that of any previous incumbent of the office, and 
if it were only for the importance of his connection with our 
activities, it would be fitting that we should pause in our scien- 
tific proceedings to recall his worth. But we have other reason 
also, since he was endeared to each one of us by his fine qualities 
of mind and heart, and his own contributions to science were 
neither very few nor unimportant. It has been, indeed, the good 
fortune of the Society, from its start until now, nearly always to 
secure as Secretary, men who have honored the office by what 
they have themselves contributed to advance science, and in our 
late friend Edward Burgess we find an excellent illustration of 
this fact. 
Before his official connection with the Society he had done 
little in scientific work that was known. His interest from the 
start was in the anatomy of insects, and his natural skill in the 
preparation and delineation of objects was exceptionally good. 
His first paper was prepared in collaboration with myself, and 
was induced by the work he was doing for me as a pure labor of 
love — such labor as he was doing all his life — in the prepara- 
tion of the abdominal appendages of New England butterflies for 
a work I had in hand. Not only were all the drawings of these 
parts (some 173 in number) which are credited to him in my 
work since published generously made by him, but the dissec- 
tions and preparations were also his own from specimens furnished 
by me. While engaged on this work we discovered the curious 
asymmetry of these organs in the genus Thanaos (Nisoniades) , 
and we together prepared the paper, illustrated by his drawings, 
