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Packard, Abel
Member, Linnaean Society, Amherst College, 1822; Meisel
For Linnaean Society see p. 56 in Student life at Amherst College: Its organizations, their membership and history, by George Rugg Cutting. (Amherst, Hatch & Williams, 1871, 207 p.). Available in HathiTrust.
Packard, Alpheus Spring, Jr. 1839-1905
19 Feb. 1839-14 Feb. 1905; b, Brunswick, ME; d, Providence, RI; Bowdoin College, A.B. 1861, A.M., 1864, M.D., 1864; Harvard (Lawrence Scientific School), S.B., 1864
Abbott, R. T. 1973. American Malacologists: A National Register of Professional and Amateur Malacologists and Private Shell Collectors and Biographies of Early American Mollusk Workers between 1618 and 1900 Falls Church, VA: American Malacologists, 494 pp.
American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.
Bocking, S. 1988. Alpheus Spring Packard and cave fauna in the evolution debate. Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 425-456.
Cockerell, T. D. A. 1920. Alpheus Spring Packard, 1839-1905. National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol. 9, pp. 181-236. Portrait, bibliography.
Cockerell, T. D. A. 1943. Alpheus Spring Packard. Bios, vol. 14, pp. 58-63.
Dexter, R. W. 1957. The development of A. S. Packard, Jr. as a naturalist and an entomologist. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, vol. 52, no, 3, pp. 57-66; vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 101-112.
Dexter, R. W. 1964/65. A. S. Packard's Annual Record of American Entomology, 1871-1873. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, vol. 59/60, pp. 35-36
Dexter, R.W. 1981. A. S. Packard on a former connection between Brazil and Africa based on his study of Lepidoptera. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, vol. 35, p. 321.
Dexter, R.W. 1981. Contributions of Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. to entomology. Bios, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 4-7.
Dictionary of scientific biography, ed. by C. C. Gillispie. 18 v. NY: Scribner, 1970-1990.(by C. E. Norland)
Henshaw, S. 1887. The entomological writings of Dr. Alpheus Spring Packard. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Bulletin no. 16, 49 pp.
Holland, W. J. 1905. Dr. Alpheus S. Packard. Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, ser. 2, vol. 16, pp. 140-141.
Howard, L. O. History of Applied Entomology. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 84.
Kingsley J. S. & C. Barus. 1905. Alpheus Spring Packard. Science, n.s., vol. 21 (March 17), pp. 401-406.
Kingsley, J. S. 1888. Sketch of Alpheus Spring Packard. Popular Science Monthly, vol. 33 (June 1888), pp. 260-67. Portrait
Mallis, Arnold. 1971. American Entomologists. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 549 p.
Mead, A.D. 1905. Alpheus Spring Packard. Popular Science Monthly, vol. 67 (May), pp. 43-48. Portrait
National cyclopaedia of American biography. (NY: J.T. White, 1898-1984), vol. 3, p. 102 (1893).
Osborn, H. 1937. Fragments of Entomological History. Columbus, OH: The Author.
Packard, A. S. List of the scientific work and memoirs. 1861 -76. [n.p., n.d.]. LOCATION: Museum Comp Zoology: MCZ-Packard 2,3
Slosson, A. T. 1917. A few memories, II. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 25, pp. 93-97.
Smith, J. B. 1905. The entomological work of Dr. A. S. Packard. Psyche, vol. 12, pp. 33-35. Portrait.
Woodward, A. S. 1905. Alpheus Spring Packard. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 117th ession, pp. 4-46
Primary works
Annual report on the injurious and beneficial insects of Massachusetts. No. 1-3. Boston: Wright & Potter, printers; Salem, Naturalists' agency, 1871-73.
Exploration of the Gulf of Maine with the dredge. Amer. Nat. 8(3): 145-155, 1874.
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops. Salem, 1869, 8 + 702 pp.11 plates, figs. Later editions: 1870, 1872, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1880, 1884.
Our common insects; a popular account of the insects of our fields, forests, gardens, and houses. Salem, 16 + 225 pp., plates, figs.
A monograph of the Geometrid moths or Palaenidae of the United States. Rept. of the U.S. Geol. Surv. 1876, 4 + 607 pp., 13 plates, figs.
Life histories of animals, including man; or outlines of comparative embryology. NY, 1876, 243 pp. Ill.
Zoology for students and general readers. NY, 1879, 8 + 719 pp. ill. Later editions: 1879(?)1880, 1881, 1883, 1886.
Zoology of the invertebrate animals. NY, 1879, 12 + 143 pp. [revision of a work by A. Macalister]
Insects injurious to forest and shade trees. Bull. U.S. Entomological Commission, no. 7, 1881, 275 pp., ill. Later ed.: 1890.
Zoology, briefer course. NY, 1883, 5 + 334 pp. Later editions: 1885, 1886.
A monograph on he phyllopod Crustacea of North America, with remarks on the order Phyllocarida. Rept. of the U.S. Geol. Surv. of the Territories for 1878, 1883, pp. 295-592, 39 plates.
Zoology for students and general readers; briefer course. NY, 1883, 338 pp.
First lessons in zoology. NY, 1886, 290 pp.
The cave fauna of North America, with remarks on the anatomy of the brain and the origin of the blind species. National Academy of Sciences (Memoir, vol. 4), 1888, 156 pp., 27 plates.
The Labrador coast, the journal of two summer cruises to that region. NY, 1891, 513 pp., maps and ill.
A monograph of the Bombycine moths of America north of Mexico; including their transformations, the origin of the larval markings and armature, and the phylogeny of the Lepidoptera. National Academy of Sciences (Memoir, vol. 7, 9, 12(Ed. by T.D.A. Cockerell)), 1896, 1905, 1914.
A text book of entomology, including the anatomy, physiology, embryology, and metamorphosis of insects. NY & London, 1898, xvii + 729 pp., ill.
Lamarck, the founder of evolution, .his life and work. NY, 1901, xii + 451 pp. 10 plates.
Observations on the glacial phenomena of Labrador and Maine; with A view of the recent invertebrate fauna of Labrador. Boston (Mass.), 1867.
Packard, Asa
A description of Marlborough. Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, ser. 4, pp. 46-47, 1795.
Packard, Christopher M.
Curator, Portland Society of Natural History, 1950s-60s?
Packard, Winthrop 1862-; AAB DAA DNAA Who Was Who in America2
Florida trails as seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to April inclusive. Ill. from photographs by the author and others. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1910, 7 + 300 pp., front, plates, ill. t.p. (reprinted in part from the Boston Evening Transcript)
Literary pilgrimages of a naturalist. Ill. from photographs by the author and others. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1911, xii + 220 pp., front, plates. (reprinted from the Boston Evening Transcript) New England
Old Plymouth trails. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1920, 6 + 351 pp., front., plates. (reprinted in part from the Boston Evening Transcript and the Atlantic Monthly)
Old Plymouth trails. Boston: Winfred Packard, 1920.
White Mountain trails; tales of the trails to the summit of Mount Washington and other summits of the White Hills. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1912, xiv + 311 pp., front, plates (photos). (reprinted from the Boston Evening Transcript)
Wild pastures. Ill. by Charles Copeland. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1909, x + 233 pp., front.
Wildwood ways. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1909, 6 + 261 pp., front, 6 plates. (reprinted from the Boston Evening Transcript)
Wood wanderings. Ill. by Charles Copeland. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1910, 6 + 222 pp., front., plates. (reprinted from the Boston Evening Transcript)
Woodland paths. Ill. by Charles Copeland. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1910, 6 + 289 pp., front., plates. (reprinted from the Boston Evening Transcript)
Paddock, Robert
Physician; Barre, Vt, formerly of CT; Plants in Bigelow, Florula Bostoniensis, 2nd ed. p. 179.
Thompson, Hist Vt; Gaz 10 (Thompson, Gaz Vt 57, 1824). Robert Paddock and Lyman Paddock (likely son of Robert) in Barre. Assumes Bigelow's Paddock was from Barre. Barnhart.
Paine, Charles Jackson 1876-1926
b, Weston, MA; Vanesboro??????, VT; Harvard, 1897; Businessman, Banker; Entomology; Lepidoptera in MCZ
Palmer, T. S. et al. 1954. Biographies of Members of the American Ornithologists' Union, reprinted from 'The Auk', 1884-1954. Ed. by P. H. Oehser. Washington, DC: Lord Baltimore Press, 630 pp. [p. 437-438].
Paine, F. W.
Founder, Worcester Lyceum of Natural History; Meisel, 1825
Palmer, Julius Auboineau, Jr. 1849-1899
Kaye, G. 1981. Julius Palmer and the Boston Club. Boston Mycological Club Bulletin, vol. 36, no. 2 (June), pp. 5-7.
Palmer, Ralph Simon
Maine birds. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, v. 102, 1949, 656 pp. LOCATION: Widener: Sci 1720.70 vol.102
The rattlesnake in Maine. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Natural history miscellanea ; no. 2, 1946, 3 p.
Palmer, T. S.
Parker, E. M.
Spring flora of the neighborhood of St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.1893. 23 pp.
Parker, Edward D.
Assistant to H. W. Wright; Wright, H. W. 1911. Birds of the Jefferson Region
Parker, Edward Ludlow 1860-1925
b, Plymouth; d, Concord, MA; CPA; Interested in bird protection; AOU
French, A. In: Memoirs of Members of the Social Circle in Concord, 1940.
Parker, Francis Edward
Bangs, Edward. Memoir of the Hon. Francis Edward Parker. Cambridge, 1887. pp. 9. Reprint. Proc. Mass. Historical Society.
Parker, George Howard 1864-1955
23 Dec. 1864-26 Mar. 1955; Zoology, Harvard
American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.
Parker, H.C.
The mammalian geography of Worcester county, Massachusetts. M.S. thesis, Clark Univ., Worcester, Mass., 1938, 77pp.
A preliminary list of the mammals of Worcester county, Massachusetts. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1939, 41:403-415.
Parker, H. M.
The Turkey Vulture in New England up to 1950. Auk, vol. 68 (1951), pp. 315-333. (Sr author: Bag, A. M.)
Parker, Herbert 1856-1939
b, Charlestown; d, Lancaster, MA; Lawyer, Attorney General of Massachusetts, 1901-1905; Member: Nuttall Ornithological Club, National Association of Audubon Societies; AOU
Parker, Joel
President, Northern Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1841; Meisel, 1841
Parkman, Dr. George
Boston; Introduction to Audubon's Quadrupeds
Gifford, G. E., Jr. 1962. Parkman's wren. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, vol. 36, no. 4 (Spring), pp. 26-29. Reprinted in Medicine and Science in Early America, Being the Collected Essays of George Edmund Gifford, Jr., 1930-1981. Friends of George E. Gifford, Jr., 1982, pp. 7-10.
Parks, G. H.
Evening Grosbeaks at Hartford, Connecticut. Bird-Banding, 1945, pp. 32-36.
Parlin, John Crawford 3/20/1863-2/24/1948
Paris; d, Canton Point, ME; Teacher; Amateur botanist
Bean, R. C. 1948. John Crawford Parlin. Rhodora, vol. 50, no. 593 (May), pp. 130-131.
Parshley, Howard Madison 1884-1953
b, Hallowell, ME
Student of William Morton Wheeler at the Bussey Institution, Harvard University. Later at Boston University. Professor of zoology, Smith College
Usinger, R. L. 1954. Howard Madison Parshley. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, vol. 30, pp. 1-4.
Fauna of New England. 14. List of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, Occ. papers. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1917. 7. no. 14, pp. 125..
Hemiptera from Peaks Island, Maine, collected by Mr. G.A. Moore. Canadian Entomologist, v. 52 (1920), pp. 80-87.
Parsons, Charles W.
President, 1855-59, Providence Frankin Society; Meisel, 1821
Parsons, Frances Theodora 1851-1952
Author of botanical books: How to Know the Wild Flowers (1893; as Mrs. William Starr Dana), Plants and their Children (1896; as Mrs. William Starr Dana), How to Know the Ferns (1899), According To Season (1902). Spent
Finger, M. 2004. Who is Mrs. William Starr Dana? Notes of the Pennsylvania Native Plant Society, v. 7, no. 1, pp. 4-6; http://www.pawildflower.org/01_articles/Notes_2004_Q1.pdf.(Originally published: North Carolina Wildflower Preservation Society newsletter, v. X, no II (Winter 1998).
Parsons, Theophilus 1750-1813
Theophilus Parsons, in Sibley's Harvard Graduates, edited by Clifford K. Shipton, vol. 17 (1975), pp. 190-207. Portrait
Parsons, T., Jr. 1859. Memoir of Theophilus Parsons. Boston: Ticknor and Fields
Memoir of Theophilus Parsons, chief justice of the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts; with notices of some of his contemporaries. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1859.
Parker, Isaac. A sketch of the character of the late Chief Justice Parsons, exhibited in an address to the Grand Jury, delivered at the opening of the Supreme Judicial Court, at Boston, on the twenty-third day of November, 1813, after the usual charge. Boston, Printed by J. Eliot, 1813.
Patch, Edith Marion 1876-1954
b, Worcester, MA; Orono, ME; Entomologist, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 1903-; Economic and ecological entomology, Aphididae
American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921)
Adams, J. B. and G. W. Simpson. 1955. Edith Marion Patch. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 48, pp. 313-314.
Bird, Mary Dickinson. A tonic stimulation: Edith Patch and the Entomological Society of America. Qualifying paper-- Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2000.
Bird, Mary Dickinson. 2006. Dame bug and her students: the science and environmental teaching of Edith Marion Patch. Ph.D Dissertation in Education, Harvard University.
LOCATION: Gutman Education Library, Thesis Collection
LOCATION: Harvard University Archives.
Primary:
Dame bug and her babies. Orono, Me: Pine cone Pub. Co., 1913, 126 p. Sketches by Oskar A. Johannsen. Juvenile. 2005 reprint, Orono, ME: Friends of Dr. Edith M. Patch
Outdoor visits, by E. M. P. and Harrison E. Howe. Ill. by George M. Richards. New York: Macmillan Co., 1932. xi, 212 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Nature and science readers ; bk. 2 Howe, Harrison Estell, 1881-1942.
Hexapod stories. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922. 167 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Little gateways to science
Aphid pests of Maine; Food plants of the aphids; Psyllid notes. Bulletin / Maine Agricultural Experiment Station; no. 202. Orono: Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 1912.
Four rare aphid genera from Maine. Bulletin / Maine Agricultural Experiment Station; no. 182. Orono: Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 1910.
Gall aphids of the elm. Bulletin / Maine Agricultural Experiment Station; no. 181. Orono: Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 1910.
Papers: Special Collection Dept., Raymond H. Folger Library, University of Maine, Orono.
Peabody, Francis 1801-1867
Infusoria; Dexter, 1977, p. 47
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 6 (1873), pp. 24-25.
Proceedings of the Essex Institute, vol. 5 (1874), pp. 51-52.
Peabody, Francis Howard -9/22/1905
The death of Francis Howard Peabody. Rhodora, vol. 7, no. 84 (December), p. 269.
Peabody, Selim Hobart 1829-1903
b, Rockingham, Vermont; Education: University of Vermont, 1852
Author of series of juvenile natural history books (among other works) titled Cecil's Books of Natural History (after his son, Cecil):
Cecil's book of beasts
Cecil's book of birds
Cecil's book of insects
All: Chicago: Clarke and Co., 1868
Reprinted in one volume:
Cecil's books of natural history. NY: John B. Alden, 1884.
Hathitrust version
Taught mathematics, physics, and engineering at several colleges. President of the University of Illinois (1880-1891). Head of the department of liberal arts at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) and the Pan-American Exposition (1900). President of the Chicago Academy of Sciences (1892-1895), President of the National Council of Education (1889-1891).
Leach, W. 2012. Butterfly people: an American encounter with the beauty of the world. NY: Pantheon Books, 388 p. [p. 93,
Girling, K. P. 1923. Selim Hobart Peabody; a biography by his daughter, Katherine Peabody Girling. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 215 p.
Peabody, Rev. William Bourn Oliver 1799-1847; Springfield
Dictionary of American biography. (NY: C. Scribner's sons, 1928-95. 20 v. + 10 Supplements). Article by G.H.G.
Memorial History of Boston, vol. 4, p. 524, 1881.
Literary Remains. Boston: B.H. Greene, 1850, 448 pp. Portrait frontispiece.
A Sketch of the History of the First Half Century of the Third Congregational Society of Springfield, Mass. Address at the Dedication of the Church of the Unity. Sermon upon the Character and Ministry of Rev. William B. O. Peabody, D.D. [pp. 36-42] Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles, 1869.
A Report on the Ornithology of Massachusetts. In Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey. Reports on the Fishes, Reptiles and Birds of Massachusetts. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1839.
Pearce, John 1908-1949; Manchester, England; d, Natick, MA; New York State College of Forestry, MS, 1935; Cooperative Wildlife Unit, University of Maine, 1941; Regional Inspector of Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1942?; AOU
Pearse, Arthur Sperry
Pearse, A. S. 1913. Observations on the fauna of the rock beaches at Nahant, Massachusetts. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society (n.s.), 11:8-34; 12:72-80.
Pease, Arthur Stanley 1881-1964
22 Sept. 1881-7 Jan. 1964
American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.
Biographical dictionary of North American classicists, ed. by Ward W. Briggs, Jr. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994, lxxvi, 800 p. [pp. 484-487]
"'By nature a collector': Arthur Stanley Pease." Pp. 3-6 in Lives of Harvard Scholars: A Selection, 1957-1967. Cambridge: University Information Center, Harvard University, 1968.
Pease. Oldfather, W. A. 1927. Arthur Stanley Pease as a classical scholar. Amherst graduates' quarterly (no. 64, Aug.), pp. 264-267.
Pease, Arthur Stanley. Notes on the botanical exploration of the White Mountains. Appalachia, 1917, xiv, 157-178.
Vascular Flora of Coös County, New Hampshire. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 9-388, 1924.
A Flora of Northern New Hampshire. Cambridge: New England Botanical Club, 1964, 278 pp.
Peck, William Dandridge 1763-1822
8 May 1763-3 Oct. 1822
American National Biography, ed. by J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. plus 2 supplements. Online version available.
Barbour, Thomas. 1946. A naturalist's scrapbook. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 218 p. [portrait facing p. 39; photo of 2 of Peck's dried fish specimens facing p. 94]
Dictionary of American biography. (NY: C. Scribner's sons, 1928-95. 20 v. + 10 Supplements). Article by L.O.H.
Elliott, C. A. 1979. Biographical dictionary of American science: the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 360 pp.
Hammond, C. A. 1987. The botanic garden in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1805-1834. Herbarist, no. 53, pp. 45-73.
Kelly, H. A. & W. L. Burrage. 1928. Dictionary of American Medical Biography. NY: D. Appleton, 1364 pp.
Essig, E. O. 1931. Hist. Ent. p. 729. Portrait.
Howard, L. O. 1930. A History of Applied Entomology. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 84. Portrait.
Memorial History of Boston, vol. 4, pp. 518-519, 1881.
Quincy, J. 1840. History of Harvard College, vol. 2, pp. 329-330.
Tyng, D. A. 1843. Obituary notice of Professor Peck. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, ser. 2, vol. 10, pp. 161-170.
Hooker, W. J. 1825. On the botany of America. American Journal of Science, vol. 9, p. 273. [Quotation about finding the Linnaeus volume, p. 273]
"A subcriber." 1808. Account of the establishment for natural history, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Monthly Anthology, vol. 5 (November), pp. 595-598.
Marquand, J. P. 1957. A hearsay history of Curzon's Mill. Atlantic Monthly, vol. 200, no. 5 (November), pp. 87-91. [Purchase of Newbury house, p. 87]
Wheatland, D. P. 1968. The Apparatus of Science at Harvard, 1765-1800. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University [Peck's mounted fish, pp. 190-192]
Kirby, W. 1813. Strepsiptera, a new order of insects proposed; and the characters of the Order, with those of its genera, laid down. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, vol. 11 (1813), pp. 86-122. [Quotation from Peck's letter, pp. 90-93] 86-94
Kirby, W. 1837. Insects, part 4 of John Richardson, William Swainson & William Kirby. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Norwich: Josiah Fletcher. [Hesperia peckius, p. 300 & pl.4, fig.2, 3]
Kirby, William (1759-1850) in Dictionary of National Biography, pp. 199-200.
Primary works
Bibliography of his articles in Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900. (London: Royal Society of London, 1867-1925, 23 vols.).
[Letter to J. E. Smith]. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late James Edward Smith, edited by Lady Smith. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, vol. 1, pp. 476-478, 1832.
Catalogue of books to be sold at auction, on Thursday, the 13th day of February 1823 ... Boston; containing a choice collection of works upon botany and natural history, and comprising the whole library of the late William D. Peck. Cambridge, MA: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1823, 27pp.
Peck, William Dandridge & Manasseh Cutler. 1795. [Methods of preserving animals and their skins collected from various authors.] Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 4: 8-14.
Catalogue of American and foreign plants cultivated in the botanic garden, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf at the University Press, 1818.
Description of four remarkable fishes taken near the Piscataqua in New Hampshire. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 2, part 2 (1794), pp. 46-57.
Some observations on the sea-serpent. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 4 (1818), pp. 86-91.
Observations on the leech-worm. Tilloch, Phil. Mag. 34: 376-78, 1809.
Observations carpologicae in Kamelliam et Theam. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 4, pp. 103-109, 1818.
On the insects which destroy young branches of the pear tree and the leading shoot of the Weymouth pine. Massachusetts Agricultural Repository and Journal, 4: 205-211, 1817.
Some account of the insect which destroys the locust tree. Massachusetts Agricultural Repository and Journal, 5(1): 67-73, 1 pl., 1818.
Insects which affect the oak and cherries. Massachusetts Agricultural Repository and Journal, 5(3): 307-313, 1819.
[Observations on the life-history and control of the canker-worm] Massachusetts Agricultural Repository and Journal, 4(1): 89-92, 1816.
Natural history of the slug-worm. Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture Papers, 1799, pp. 9-22; Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, vol. 5, pp. 280-290; Massachusetts Mercury ??? Separately published: Boston: Printed by Young & Minns, printers to the state, 14 pp. 1 pl. 1799.
The description and natural history of the cankerworm. Massachusetts Magazine, vol. 7 (1795), pp. 323-327, 415-416, 1 pl.; Reprinted as: Natural history of the cankerworm. Rules and Regulations of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1796, 34-
William Bentley Papers, Harvad University Archives, Include letters from W. D. Peck.
Peirce, Dr. George 2/5/1808-10/14/1896
Weatherby, U. F. 1952. An old local herbarium of New Salem, Massachusetts. Rhodora, vol. 54, no. 639 (March), pp. 80-82.
Pember, Karl Albert 1879-1928
b, Woodstock, VT; d, Visiting in AZ; Home: Woodstock; State Ornithologist of Vermont, 1923-; AOU
Penard, Thomas Edward 1878-1936
b, Paramariba??, Surinam; d, Cambridge, MA; MIT, 1900; Electrical engineer with Edison Electric; Worked on birds of Surinam with help of O. Bangs; Birds in MCZ; Book collector; Member: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Boston Engineers Club, Nuttall Ornithological Club, New England Zoological Club, Boston Society of Natural History, philatelic organizations.; AOU
Haverschmidt, F. 1949. Biographical notes on the Penard brothers. Auk, vol. 66, pp. 56-61.
Penhallow, David Pearce 5/25/1854-10/20/1910
Deane, W. 1911. David Pearce Penhallow. Rhodora, vol. 13, no. 145 (January), pp. 1-4.
Penniman, Frances Montressor Buchanan Allen and daughter Adelia
Smith, M. V. 1913. An early Vermont botanist. Vermonter, vol. 18 (April), pp. 71-77.
Percival, James Gates 1795-1856
American Journal of Science, ser. 2, vol. 22 (July 1856), pp. 150-151.
Cone, T.E. Jr. "James Gates Percival (M.D. Yale 1820), Once our nation's most promising poet". Conn Med. 1966 Oct;30(10):719-21.
Dexter, F. B. 1912. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, vol. 6. New Haven.
Merrill, G. P. 1906. James Gates Percival. U. S. National Museum Annual Report for 1904, pp. 329-330.
Ward, J. H. 1866. Life and Letters of James Gates Percival. Boston, 2 vols. pl., portraits
Legler, H. E. 1901. James Gates Percival - An Anecdotal Sketch and a Bibliography. Milwaukee, 61 pp., 3 pl.
Thoms, H. 1921. James Gates Percival (M.D. Yale, 1820). Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago, vol. 2, pp. 219-238.
Thoms, H. 1960. James Gates Percival, 1795-1856, Class of 1815. Pp. 93-100 in Doctors of Yale College, 1702-1815, and the Founding of the Medical Institution. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 199 pp. Portrait.
Wight, C. A. 1900. James Gates Percival. Connecticut Magazine, vol. 6 (Feb.), pp. 87-92.
Pratt, M. 1900. James Gates Percival, poet and scientist. Connecticut Magazine, vol. 6 (Feb.), pp. 81-85.
Perkins
Perkins. New England wild flowers. [1843].
Perkins, Anne E.
Some Unusual Plants of Erie County. Hobbies, 2:206 - 211. 1931.
Maine plants collected by Dr. Anne E. Perkins, 1936, MS, 16 pp. LOCATION: Botany Gray/Arnold.
Perkins, Dr. George A.
Radiata; Dexter, 1980
Perkins, George Henry 1844-1933
University of Vermont
Fairchild, H. L. 1934. Memorial of George Henry Perkins. Proceedings of the Geological Society of America, June, 235-242. Bibliography.
A general catalogue of the flora of Vermont. Montpelier, VT: Freeman Steam Printing House and Bindery, 1882, 49 p. pp 93-140 p. from the 7th Vermont agricultural report by the State Board of Agriculture
A general catalogue of the flora of Vermont including phaenogamous and vascular cryptogamous plants growing without cultivation. Burlington: Free Press Association, 1888, 74 p. 231-302 p. (From the 10th report of the State Board of Agriculture).
Catalogue of the flowering plants of Vermont. Archives of science and transactions of the Orleans County Society of Natural Sciences, v.1, no. 5/6, 1872-1873. 1870. LOCATION: Botany Gray Herbarium: Fl 74.3 P41c
The forest caterpillar, Clisciocampa disstria Hub. Vermont - Agricultural experimental station. Bulletin, 76. Burlington. 1900. LOCATION: Botany Arnold (Cambr.): Ue P41.7 39347
The tent caterpillar (Clisiocampa americana Harris). [Burlington], 1888. LOCATION: Museum Comp Zoology: E.D. Lep.
New York (State). Lake Champlain tercentenary commission. The Champlain tercentenary. Final report of the New York lake Champlain tercentenary commission. Albany, J.B. Lyon co, state printers, 1913. LOCATION: Widener: US 15463.10.18
A general catalogue of the flora of Vermont. Montpelier, Freeman Steam Printing House and Bindery, 1882. LOCATION: Botany Arboretum JP: FL 74.3 P41g LOCATION: Botany Arnold (Cambr.): Fl 74.3 P41 1882
A preliminary list of the birds found in Vermont, by G. H. P., assisted by Clifton D. Howe. New York; Albany: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1901, 34 pp. Vermont Agriculture Report, 1901, v. 21, pp. 85-118.
Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas of Vermont. Montpelier: Argus and Petriot Printing House, 1904. LOCATION: Botany Arnold (Cambr.): X P41; 45; and in New England Farmer, vol. 5 (1827), 393-94.
Perkins, Henry Coit 1804-1873
Graustein, Nuttall, p. 225
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Essex Institute Bulletin, vol. 5 (1874), p. 91.
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 9 (1874), pp. 240-241.
Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 15 (1873), pp. 310-311.
Perkins, Henry Farnham 1877-
b, Burlington, VT; Johns Hopkins, PhD, 1902; Instructor-Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, 1902-; Morphology and embryology of medusae; freshwater molluscs; AMSIII
American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921)
Perkins, Thomas H.
Had collection of minerals and shells, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 5 (1854-56); Stone, Learned Societies, p. 406
Perley, Dr. Daniel
Founder, Lynn Natural History Society; Botany; Dexter, 1962
Perry, Rev. Gardner B.
Vice president ????; Dexter, 1977, p. 44
Perry, George Lewis 1879-1950
b, Wilmington; d, Winchester, MA; Insurance
Palmer, T. S. et al. 1954. Biographies of Members of the American Ornithologists' Union, reprinted from 'The Auk', 1884-1954. Ed. by P. H. Oehser. Washington, DC: Lord Baltimore Press, 630 pp. [p. 451].
Perry, Henry Joseph 1871-1926
b, Provincetown; d, Needham, MA; AOU
Peters, James Lee
Curator of Birds, MCZ
Peterson, Nels Theodore 1878-1948
b, Runford, RI; d, Battle Creek, MI; Jewelry business in Providence; Health failed and moved to Michigan in 1916, but made frequent trips to New England.; AOU
Peterson, Stella -1947
d, Battle Creek, MI; Wife of N T. Peterson; Botany
Mentioned in N. T. Peterson's AOU obituary.
Petrunkevitch, Alexander 1875-1964
b, Pliski, Russia; d, New Haven, CT; Freiburg, PhD, 1900
American Men of Science, ed. 3 (1921)
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Kinkead, E. 1950. Arachnologist I, New Yorker, April 22, p. 37; Arachnologist II, New Yorker, April 29, p. 37. Reprinted in:
Kinkead, E. 1955. Spider, egg, and microcosm; three men and three worlds of science. Introd. by E.B. White. NY: Knopf, 243 pp.
Woodruff, L. L. 1945. Alexander Petrunkevitch, colleague and friend. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 36, pp. 7-8.
Pew, Mrs. Clara ~1934
Donated her shell collection to the Cape Ann Scientific, Literary, and Historical Association in 1934. Dexter, 1986, Two centuries, p. 257.