Scudder, samuel hubbard

Born April 13, 1837 in Boston . He studied at Williams College (1857) and at Harvard University (1862). Leading American entomologist of the second half of the 19th century and the first paleoentomologist in North America, specialist in the orders Lepidoptera , Orthoptera , Mantodea and Blattodea and the fossil Arthropoda .

A pupil of Mark Hopkins at Williams College and Professor Luis Agassi at Harvard , a prolific author who published 791 works in 1858-1902, mainly on biogeography and paleobiogeography, biology, ethology, phylogenesis and ontogenesis of insects, paleontology , economic entomology. And also on ethnology, geology and geography. He described about 2000 new arthropod species, mainly fossil, including the fully preserved Eocene nymphalida Prodryas , including 1,100 species in just 6 years of work in the United States Geological Survey (1886-1892).

Among his main works are the two-volume book on fossil terrestrial arthropod Fossil Insects of North America: The Pre-tertiary Insects ( 1890 ) (a collection of his previous writings on the insects Paleozoic and Mesozoic) and The Tertiary Insects of North America ( 1890 ). Known are his major reviews of the fossil cockroaches of the world ( 1879 ), the USA ( 1890 , 1895 ), the fossil arthropods of the world ( 1886 , 1891 ). He compiled the most comprehensive list of the names of all genera and insect families Scudder's Nomenclator Zoologicus ( 1882-1884 ).

Scudder was a passionate bibliophile and served as an assistant chief librarian at Harvard College and a librarian at American Academy of Arts and Sciences . However, the disease forced him to leave all posts in 1903.

Died May 17, 1911 in Boston .

• President of the Boston Society for Natural History (1859–1870, 1880–1887)
• Co-founder of the Cambridge Entomological Club and its magazine Psyche (1874)
• Vice President, Secretary General of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1894-; secretary general since 1875)
• The first editor of the journal Science (1883-1885)
• Paleontologist United States Geological Survey (1886-1892)

• The Student, The Fish, and Agassiz , American Poems (3rd ed .; Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1879): pp. 450–54 ^[1]
• Butterflies: Their Structure, Changes, and Life Histories (1881)
• Nomenclator zoologicus is one of the most common names in the public administration. 1882. XIX-340 p . (1882). On line at Gallica ^[2]
• Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada (1889)
• The Fossil Insects of North America (two volumes, 1890)
• Index to the Known Fossil of the World (1891)
• Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States (1893)
• The Life of a Butterfly (1893)
• Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the World of Butterflies (1895)
• Revision of the Orthopteran Group Melanopli (1897)
• Everyday Butterflies (1899)
• Catalog of the Described Orthoptera of the United States and Canada (1900)
• Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Colorado (1900)
• Index to North American Orthoptera (1901)

• Entomology

• Janice R. Matthews (1974). History of the Cambridge Entomological Club, Psyche , 81 : 3-37. ISSN 0033-2615
• Robert A. Cannings. (2006). "Geoffrey GE Scudder zoologist, conservationist, educator." - Canadian Entomologist / Volume 138 / Special Issue / Numéro Spécial 04 / Aug 2006, pp ix - xxx.

• Skedder, Samuel // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.