Samuel Hubbard Scudder

Samuel Hubbard Scudder ( born April 13, 1837 in Boston, † May 17, 1911 in Boston ) was an American paleontologist and entomologist.

In 1857 he completed his studies at Williams College, in 1862 at Harvard University. He is regarded as one of the first paleontologists who specialized in insects. He also studied the butterflies (Lepidoptera ), the Spring (Orthoptera ) and Mantis ( Mantodea ), and Blattoidea fossil Arthropoda.

As a student of Mark Hopkins at Williams College and Louis Agassiz at Harvard University Scudder was extremely productive and published 1858-1902 791 writings on the fields of biotechnology and paleobiogeography, ontogeny of the insect behavior, phylogeny, insect noises, Palichnologie, evolution, insect biology and economic Entomology. He also wrote works on ethnology, geology and geography. Scudder Nomenclator Zoologicus (1882-1884) was a comprehensive list of all genus and family names in zoology.

Also Scudder was curator, librarian and 1859-1870, and 1880 and 1887 President of the Boston Society of Natural History. In 1874 he was one of the founders of the Cambridge Entomological Club and its magazine psyche. A year later he became general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he was once again in 1894 as Vice President. In 1883 he took over the standing facing ruin Science and was able to save temporarily. But already in the following year the leaf fell into financial difficulties and had to be sold in 1885.

Works

  • Butterflies: Their Structure, Changes and Life Histories (1881 )
  • Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada (1889 )
  • The Fossil Insects of North America ( two volumes, 1890)
  • Index to the Known Fossil Insects of the World ( 1891)
  • Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States (1893 )
  • The Life of a Butterfly (1893 )
  • Revision of the orthopteran Group Melanopli (1897 )
  • Everyday Butterflies ( 1899)
  • Catalogue of the Described Orthoptera of the United States and Canada (1900)
  • Index to North American Orthoptera (1901 )
  • Entomologist
  • Paleontologist
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Born in 1837
  • Died in 1911
  • Man
  • Americans
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