Samuel Hubbard Scudder^{[1, 2]}

1837 - 1911  (74 years)

• Name	Samuel Hubbard Scudder
  Birth	13 Apr 1837	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 May 1911	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I3269	Scudder
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2006

  
  

  Father	Charles Scudder,   b. 1789, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 21 Jan 1863, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Sarah Lathrop Coit,   b. 15 Sep 1804, New London, Connecticut d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Est 1834
  Family ID	F1163	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ethelinda Jane Blatchford,   b. 12 Jan 1841, New York City, New York, New York d. 9 Jun 1872, Montreux, Switzerland (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	25 Jun 1867	Cambridge, Massachusetts   [4]
  Children	1. Dr. Gardiner Hubbard Scudder,   b. 3 Sep 1869, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 26 Dec 1896, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F1215	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Samuel graduated from Williams College, 1857, a naturalist, president of the Boston Society of Natural History, and editor of the journal called "Science." He took his Master of Science degree in 1892 at Harvard, where he was assistant to Louis Agassiz in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. His famous sketch "In the Laboratory with Agassiz" was published in "Every Saturday" in 1847 and reprinted many times. He may be most widely known for his essay on the importance of first-hand, careful observation in the natural sciences. The treatise on inductive reasoning, entitled "The Student, the Fish, and Agassiz", reflected his initial experience under the tutelage of Agassiz. In 1864, he became custodian of the boston Society of Natural History. In 1875, he became General Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1877, he was elected to the National Academy of Science and in 1885 became editor of "Science." In 1889, he brought out "Butterflies of the Eastern United States" in three volumes. Samuel wrote works comprising more than 300 titles and besides his American Scientific affiliations, he was honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Entomological Society of London. A student of Mark Hopkins at Williams College, Samuel was a prolific writer, publishing 791 papers between 1858-1902, on insect biogeography and paleobiogeography, insect behavior ontogeny and phylogeny, insect songs, trace fossils, evolution, insect biology and economic entomology. He also wrote on ethnology, general geology, and geography. His masterwork of fossil terrestrial arthropod research was the two-volume set Fossil Insects of North America: The Pre-tertiary Insects (1890) (a collection of his previous papers on Paleozoic and Mesozoic insects) and The Tertiary Insects of North America (1890). He also published comprehensive reviews of the then-known fossil cockroaches of the world (1879), Carboniferous cockroaches of the United States (1890, 1895), and fossil terrestrial arthropods of the world (1886, 1891). Scudder's Nomenclator Zoologicus (1882-1884) was a seminal and comprehensive list of all generic and family names (Zoology including insects).

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Genealogy of Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey, p. 260. [S49] Honoring Samuel H. Scudder, No. 118, pp. 1-2. [S317] 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1254543; National Archives Film T9-0543; Page 184B. [S789] Blatchford Memorial II, p. 82a.