Dr. Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr., (USA)

Alpheus Spring Packard Jr.

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Packard was an American entomologist and palaeontologist.

Biography

He was the son of Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. (1798–1884) and the brother of William Alfred Packard. He was born in Brunswick, Maine and was Professor of Zoology and Geology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from 1878 until his death. He was a vocal proponent of the Neo-Lamarckian theory of evolution.

His chief work was the classification and anatomy of arthropods, and contributions to economic entomology, zoogeography, and the phylogeny and metamorphoses of insects. Packard was appointed to the United States Entomological Commission in 1877 where he served with Charles Valentine Riley and Cyrus Thomas. He wrote school textbooks, such as Zoölogy for High Schools and Colleges (eleventh edition, 1904). His Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of North America was published in three parts (1895, 1905, 1915, edited by T. D. A. Cockerell).

Writings by A. S. Packard Jr.

Report on the insects collected on the Penobscot and Alleguash Rivers, during August and September, 1861, Sixth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Augusta, Maine (pp. 373-376) (1861)

• Guide to the Study of Insects (1869; third edition, 1872)
• The Mammoth Cave and its Inhabitants (1872), with F. W. Putnam
• Life-History of Animals (1876)
• A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast (1891)
• Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work (1901), French translation, 1903.

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Eminent Zoologist and Long Professor at Brown – Ulcerated Tooth Caused Death.

Providence, Rhode Islandd, February 14, 1905

Prof. Alpheus Spring Packard, professor of zoology and geology at Brown University since 1878, and eminent student and writer on natural history died today. A few weeks ago, Prof. Packard suffered from an ulcerated tooth, which he had extracted. Necrosis developed and septic poisoning resulted, causing death.

Prof. Packard was born in Brunswick, Me., Feb 19, 1839, the son of Professor Alpheus Spring and Frances Elizabeth (Appleton) Packard. His mother was a sister in-law of United States President Franklin Pierce. He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1851 and afterward attended the Maine medical school.

From 1855 to 1865 he was custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History and for the succeeding 11 years connected with the Peabody academy of Science. He was the Massachusetts state entomologist from 1871 to 1873 and for 29 years editor-in-chief of the American Naturalist.

He was a member of the national entomological commission from 1877 to 1882 and president of the zoological congress in Paris, and a member of the National Academy of Science.

Prof. Packard in 1857 married Elizabeth Derby Walcott, who survives him.

The Boston Herald – Wednesday, February 15, 1905, page 3