The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Emerton, James H.

EMERTON, James H., American naturalist and illustrator: b. Salem, Mass., 1847. He is the illustrator of Packard's ‘Guide to the Study of Insects’; Scudder's ‘Butterflies of North America’; Verrill's papers in ‘Reports of the United States Fish Commission’ (1884); and Minot's ‘Embryology.’ He is the author of seven papers on “New England Spiders” in the ‘Transactions’ of the Connecticut Academy; ‘The Structure and Habits of Spiders’ (1878) and ‘Common Spiders of the United States’ (1902). Emerton constructed anatomical and zoological models for museums at Cambridge, New Haven, New York and Washington.