The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-02-15
NOTED BROWN
PROFESSOR
IS DEAD

Wherever there Is a Brown man today
there is a feeling Of sadness over the
loss. 10 the University OF one OF the men
whose life and works have done more to
make the name OF the college under the
Films known. than most people are aware
Of at this time in the death Of Prof AL
pheus Spring Packard at his late resi-
dence. 275 Angel street.
Not one OF the many men who have
passedout into The world in the past dec
ade and are today battling with life and
its various problems. is there who VIII
not read with exceeding regret the story
OF the demise OF one OF Browns most
honored. Grand Old Men" To those
students who have been fortunate enough
10 have studied with Professor Packard
I'm more than one OF the courses he oner-
ed Il is like the parting with an old and
trusted friend that they will feel that no
longer will he be M ound TO greet them an
TO lead them through the maizes OF scien-
tihc study and to make the subject or
such interest that they will learn TO love
the subject as we'll as the man.
There ia no one of the professors whose
works and treatlses upon various scien-
tlnc subjects are better known or
whose writings have greater re-
spect and wider circulation than
those OF the late professor. with
the very brightest minds that the
present day has known he was associa-
ted; with Aggassz, the elder and the
younger and with many others.
with some of those who have given the
world the brightest scientific thoughts
nnd speculations ne often agreed and Of
ten disagreed and his opinians carried
great weight even with the best of them.
In fact. his was master mind and as
such was recognized.
Some six weeks ago Prof. Packard was
troubled with an liberated tooth. In or
der TO relieve the pain the tooth was eN-
tracted, and in a short time necrosis set
in This developed into blood poisoning
which finally resulted In his death at 5:i5
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Prof Packard was born in brunswick
Me- Feb. 19, 1889. He was the son OF Prof
Aipheus Spring ana Frances Elizabeth
(Appleton) Packard He obtained his early
education in the schools of his native
state and entered Bowdoin college. being
graduated from that institution with the
class of 1861. lie then entered the Maine
Medical school and was graduated In 1864.
For three years thereafter he studied un-
der Prof AgRassiz at the Lawrence Scien-
tifc school. Harvard. receiving the degree
0f Bachelor OF Science from Harvard. In
1901 Bowdoin conferred upon him the hon
orarv degree Of IL. II. During a part OF
1864 and 1866 he was assistant surgeon or
the Maine Veteran Volunteers.
From lS65 10 1866 he was librarian and
custodian OF the Boston Society Of Nat
ural History and in the latter year be-
came curator of the Essex institute. For
the next j years he was curator and di-
rector Of the Peabody Academy OF Science
and was the Massachusetts state en-
tomologist from 1871 10 1873. In 1873 he
came to Brown university as member
OF the faculty.
Prof Packard was one of the founders
OF the American Naturalist a publica-
ton devoted 20 natural history and re-
search and for 90 years was It's editor
in-chicf lie was a member OF the
United States chronological commission
from 1877 10 1882. and In 1899 was honor
arv president OF the geological congress
I'm Paris Since 1872 he had been a mem
Der OF tn National Academy OF Sciences.
lie was The author OF more than 400
papers notices notes etc, on Insects,
ciustacs7 reooFy zoology and paleon-
tolosy UesI'Cv his more pretentious works.
some oI which are enumerated here:
Guide to The study OF Insects" 1863;
THE Mammoth Cave and Its Inhabitants"
(collat oiat ting with r. w Putnam. 1872;
"Our Common Insects" 1873; Life His
tory OF Animals" 1876 "Half Hoxrs with
Insects" 1877; Injurious In ects of tie
West" 1871: Zoology for High Schools
and Colleges" 1879; First Lessons in
Geology" 1882: Zoology" 1888. First
Lessons In Zoology" 1855; Entomology
for Beginners" 1855: Observations on
the Glacial Phenomena Of Labrador and
Maine" 1891; "A Textbook Of Entomo-
ogy. 1898. 'IAmarck the Founder of
Evolution. His Life and Work" 1901; the
same I'm French. 1909: "A Naturalist on
the Labrador Coast" 1891. and various
monographs on crustacea. moths. cave
animals etc
In October. 1867. he married Eliza beth
Derby. daughter OF Samuel Baker Wal
colt. who survives him. He is also sur
vived by a son, Alpheus Appleton Pack
ard Of Brookline Mass. and two daugh-
ters. Mrs. =. w. Mcclellan and Miss
Martha walcott Packard
Prof Packard IN 1901 received the most
exceptional honor OF an election as
foreign member of the Llnnean society
OF London This society. formed In 1888
Is. after the Royal society. the most
noted natural history society In England
At that time there were only four Amer
lean members besides Prof. Packard.
In 1872 he was elected a member 81 the
Imperial Geological Botanical society ~
Vienna: IN 1875. OF the soicete Royale
des Sciences de Liege. Belgium. and in
1891 OF the Society of Friends Of Natural
Science Of Moscow. Russia