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 . ty years wasa member of the faculty of Bowdoin college. In1861 young Alpheus received his bachelors degree atBowdoin, and in the spring of the same year wasappointed entomologist o
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 . ty years wasa member of the faculty of Bowdoin college. In1861 young Alpheus received his bachelors degree atBowdoin, and in the spring of the same year wasappointed entomologist on the corps of the Mainegeological survey. His How to Observe and Col-lect Insects attracted the attention of Agassiz, andPackard was sent for, and for three years studiednatural history at Cambridge, and was for a timeAgassizs private At this time his essayon the Army Worm, the first of his scientificarticles, afterward so numerous, was written. Hestudied medicine and zoology at the same time, andin 1864 received his He served ten months inthe civil war, and in 1865 returned to Boston andaccepted a position as librarian and custodian at theBoston society of natural history. In 1866 he wascalled to a professorship in the Essex institute, Sa-lem, Mass., and later to a chair in the Peabody acad-emy of science, which he had aided in founding, andwas one of its curators. He resigned the chair at. ^7/C In 1875-76 he Peabody academy in 1878 to accept the chair ofzoology and geology in Brown university. Hefounded a summer school of biology in Salem, andwas one of the instructors in Agassizs science schoolat Penikese in 1873-74. The establishment, at thistime, of the American Naturalist was largely dueto his efforts. He was its editor-in-chief. He con-tinued in Salem for eleven years, during which timehe lectured at the Massachusettsagricultural college and at Bow-doin, besides having charge of theentomology of the U. S. geologicaland geographical survey underHayden.
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