Packard
Packard names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Packard FRANK LUCIUS, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANK LUCIUS, an American writer, born in Canada, in 1877. He graduated from graduate McGill University courses in in 1897 Europe, and. took For eral years he was engaged in magazines ing and in. 1906 He began contributing was author of "On the Iron at Big Cloud, " ( 1911); Miracle Man," (1914); Traitor, " ( 1916); " The Sin That His stories, " ( 1917 to magazines). He also. contributed COLLEGIATE PACKER TUTE. A girls' school in Brooklyn, N. Y., built in 1853 to succeed the Brooklyn Female Academy, the buildings of which were destroyed by fire in the year. Mrs. Harriet L. Packer endowed the new institution with $65,000. The courses now given provide primary, secondary, high school, and collegiate instruction. The enrollment in all departments in the year 1914-1915 was 641. The total value of the buildings and equipment of the institute is approximately $600,000. The library is an unusually large one for schools of this type, having 11,000 volumes.
Packard ALPHEUS SPRING American naturalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALPHEUS SPRING American naturalist; born in wick, Me., Feb. 19, 1839; graduated Bowdoin 1861; for a time assistant Agassiz at Cambridge. State ogist of Massachusetts in 1871-1873 In 1878 Professor of Zoology and ogy at Brown University. He is best foreign trade. The The known as an entomologist; his tion of insects, 1863, has been accepted. As an evolutionist, Packard was one of the leaders of Neo - Lamarckian school. His include " Structure of the Ovipositor Insects " ( 1868); " Development and atomy of Limulus Polyphemus ( 1885); " The Cave Fauna of ( 1888); " The America" Coast" (1891); "Text-book of Entomology" (1898); "Lamark" (1891); monographs on geometrid moths, a locust's brain, phyllopod crustacea, etc. He died in 1905.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Frank Lucius Packard in 1921 mid-career, listing "The Miracle Man" and his magazine work; he went on writing until his death in 1942, and today he is remembered chiefly for Jimmie Dale, the gentleman-burglar hero of "The Adventures of Jimmie Dale" (1917), often cited as an ancestor of pulp figures such as the Shadow. The Brooklyn girls' school endowed by Harriet Packer is still there in Brooklyn Heights as the Packer Collegiate Institute, but it is now coeducational and its enrollment is well above the 641 of 1914-15. The largest change is to Alpheus Spring Packard's science: Collier's calls him "one of the leaders of the Neo-Lamarckian school," and that school — which held that acquired characters could be inherited — was abandoned as Mendelian genetics and the modern evolutionary synthesis took hold in the decades after his death in 1905. His entomological descriptive work, however, is still consulted.
Written for this edition, 2026.