The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n India,and of Horace Elisha Scudder, a well-known authorand one of the editors of the Atlantic was graduated from Williams college in 1857, andfrom the Lawrence Scienti
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n India,and of Horace Elisha Scudder, a well-known authorand one of the editors of the Atlantic was graduated from Williams college in 1857, andfrom the Lawrence Scientific school (Harvard), was strongly attracted to thework done in the museum of com-parative zoology, and became anassistant to Louis Agassiz, remain-ing in that position until ( the years from 1863 to1870, he was also secretary of theBoston society of natural history;its custodian from 1864 to 1870,and its president from 1880 to 1879 he was appointed assistantlibrarian of Harvard, remaininguntil 1885. The following yearhe became paleontologist of theUnited States geological survey inthe division of fossi] insects. He is a member ofmany scientific societies; was chairman of the sec-tion on natural history of the American Associationfor the advancement of science in 1874; elected gen-eral secretary of the association in 1875; acceptedthe office of librarian of the American Academy of. 100 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA art and sciences in 1877, remaining until 1885; in 1877was elected a member of the Xational Academy ofsciences. 3Ir. Scudder has made a specialty of ento-mology, and as an authority on butterflies and fossilinsects has no superior. The insects of Xew Hamp-shire were also reported on by him, officially. Thespecimens collected by the Yellowstone expeditionin 1873 were submitted to him. He also examinedand reported on the material gathered by the nationalgeological survey made by Lieut. Wheeler and V. Hayden, and likewise that of theB
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