The New Student's Reference Work/Packard, Alpheus Spring

Pack′ard, Alpheus Spring, an American naturalist, was born at Brunswick, Me., Feb. 19, 1839, graduated from Bowdoin in 1861, and became assistant to Agassiz at Cambridge.  After taking part in several scientific expeditions, he became state entomologist of Massachusetts and professor of zoology and geology at Brown University.  He was widely known as an entomologist and zoologist; founded and for about 20 years edited The American Naturalist; and for five years (1877–82) was a member of the national entomological commission.  During the Civil War he was assistant surgeon to the Maine Volunteers, and for about a year did much service in the field.  Afterwards, for a time, he was librarian and custodian of the Society of Natural History at Boston.  He also for a number of years was curator and a director at Peabody Institute, and an authority on agricultural insect pests.  He died in 1905.  Besides many technical papers, his publications include Guide to the Study of Insects, Our Common Insects, Zoology, Entomology for Beginners, Text-Book of Entomology, The Mammoth Cave, Life History of Animals, Half Hours with Insects, Observations on Glacial Phenomena, Insects Injurious to Trees, A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast and Lamarck: the Founder of Evolution.