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Scudder (SAMUEL HUBBARD an American)

SAMUEL HUBBARD, an American naturalist; born in Boston, Mass., April 13, 1837; was graduated at Williams College in 1857 and at the Lawrence Scientific School in 1862; was assistant to Prof. Louis Agassiz at the Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoölogy in 1862-1864; secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1862-1870; and its president in 1880-1887. He was paleontologist of the United States Geological Survey in 1886-1892. His publications include: "A Century of Orthoptera" (1879); "Catalogue of the Scientific Serials of All Countries" (1879) "Butterflies, Their Structure, Changes, and Life Histories" (1881); "Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada" (1889); "Catalogue of the Described Orthoptera of the United States and Canada" (1900); etc. He died in 1911.