Entomology For Beginners For The Use Of Young Folks, Fruit-Growers, Farmers, And Gardeners
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First Lessons in Geology: To Accompany the Chautauqua Scientific Diagrams (Classic Reprint)
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Now if there has been a recent shower, and the stream is rather high and the water thick and turbid, should we take up a tumbler-full of the water and allow it to settle, we shall see that the coarser particles fall to the bottom first and form a layer or stratum of gravel; above it is next deposited a layer of sand, and finally when the water has become clear, all the sedi ment having fallen to the bottom, we shall find uppermost a stratum of very fine sand, so fine that we cannot easily distin guish the particles, and this is mud. The entire deposit is said to be, in geological language, a sedimentary deposit.
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Observations on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and Maine: With a View of the Recent Invertebrate Fauna of Labrador (Classic Reprint)
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These original fissures and depressions have been modified by glaciers, by frosts and shore-ice and icebergs, and the waves of the sea.
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Alpheus Spring Packard was an American entomologist and palaeontologist and scientist. He was also an educator.
Background
Alpheus Spring Packard was born on February 19, 1839 in Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine, United States. His father was Prof. Alpheus Spring Packard of Bowdoin College. His mother, Frances Elizabeth Appleton, daughter of Reverend Jesse Appleton, president of Bowdoin, and a sister of the wife of President Franklin Pierce. The most of his male ancestors on both sides were ministers, and he was the first scientist in the family. A born naturalist, Alpheus Spring Packard began to collect minerals and shells when about fourteen or fifteen years old, and to read the natural history books in the library of the college.
Education
At sixteen, Alpheus Spring Package began to collect insects, and at eighteen commenced the study of comparative anatomy. The next year he entered into correspondence with Samuel H. Scudder, then living at Williamstown, Massachussets, thus beginning a friendship which lasted through life. Entering Bowdoin in 1857, he graduated with the degree of the Bachelor of Arts. in 1861. After his graduation from Bowdoin, Packard went to Cambridge to study under Agassiz, and soon became a student assistant. In the meantime he received the degree of the Master of Arts from Bowdoin (1862) and Doctor of Medicine from the Maine Medical School (1864).
Career
In the summer of 1860 Alpheus Spring Packard went with Prof. Paul A. Chadbourne upon the students' expedition from Williams College to Labrador, and in the spring of 1864 he accompanied the expedition organized by William Bradford, 1823 - 1892, the marine artist. His observations on these trips are recorded in The Labrador Coast. A Journal of Two Summer Cruises to that Region (1891). He was assistant on the Maine Geological Survey (1861 - 1862), examining fossils in the Fish River region for the purpose of determining the age of the rocks. In 1865 he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the first Maine Veteran Volunteers and went to the front, serving until the close of the war. For a year thereafter he was connected with the Boston Society of Natural History and then became curator of the Essex Institute. In 1867 he was appointed a curator of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Massachussets, of which he was later director, and with Edward S. Morse, Frederick W. Putnam, and Alpheus Hyatt founded the American Naturalist, of which he was editor-in-chief until 1887.
Alpheus was lecturer on economic entomology at the Maine College of Agriculture and Mechanics (1870) and at the Massachusetts Agricultural College (1870 - 1878), and lecturer on entomology at Bowdoin (1871 - 1874). In 1869 he published his Guide to the Study of Insects, an illustrated volume of large size. The influence of this book on the study of entomology in the United States can hardly be overestimated. There was an unexpectedly large sale, and it was adopted by many of the colleges and universities. Some subsequent editions were published. Through this book, Packard became one of the best-known men in scientific circles in America, and in 1872 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In the same year he visited Europe for the first time and was warmly greeted by the most prominent naturalists. In 1873 he was one of the teachers in the Anderson School of Natural History at Penikese, established by the elder Agassiz. He was temporarily connected with the Kentucky Geological Survey in 1874, and in 1875, with the United States Geological Survey of the Territories under Ferdinand V. Hayden.
In 1877 he became a member of the United States Entomological Commission, with Charles V. Riley and Cyrus Thomas, to investigate the Rocky Mountain locust. He resigned his position at the Peabody Academy of Science in 1878 to become professor of zoology and geology at Brown University, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1898 he published his well-known Text-Book of Entomology, which dealt with the anatomy, physiology, embryology, and metamorphoses of insects. During his career he worked incessantly. Although a sound taxonomist, having described fifty genera and about five hundred and eighty species in many groups, his work was especially strong along biological lines. His last work was his monumental Monograph of the Bombycine Moths (3 vols. , 1895 - 1914), the last volume being completed and edited after his death by T. D. A. Cockerell. He did a great work in popularizing science, but did little public lecturing on account of a defective palate. In addition to his scientific pursuits he was greatly interested in music and art.
His bibliography contains 579 titles. Aside from the important works already mentioned, Alpheus Spring Packard was the author of A Monograph of the Geometrid Moths or Phalaenidae of the United States (1876), and Insects Injurious to Forest and Shade Trees (1881), of which a second edition appeared in 1890. These constituted the first notable contributions to the study of forest entomology in North America. They were profusely illustrated and dealt almost entirely with the biological aspects of the insects treated.
At the time of his death he was generally considered by both American and European scientific men as the broadest, the most learned, and the most accomplished entomologist in the United States. Alpheus Spring Packard died on February 14, 1905.
Alpheus Packard was an honorary member of the Entomological Society of France, of the Entomological Society of London and of the United States Entomological Commission.
Personality
Alpheus Packard was an ardent evolutionist and a man of great breadth of mind.
Connections
On October 1867, Alpheus Spring Packard married Elizabeth Derby, daughter of Samuel Baker Walcott.