Scudder
Scudder names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Scudder SAMUEL HUBBARD, an American naturalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Scudder HORACE ELISHA, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HORACE ELISHA, an American author; born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 16, 1838. From 1890-1898 he was editor of the "Atlantic Monthly." He published: "Seven Little People and Their Friends"; "Dream Children"; "Stories from my Attic"; "Stories and Romances"; "Boston Town"; "Life of Noah Webster"; "A Short History of the United states", "A History of the United States"; "Fables and Folk Stories"; "George Washington: An Historical Biography"; "Men and Letters"; "The Bodley Books"; "Life of Bayard Taylor"; "Recollections of Samuel Breck"; "Literature in School"; "The Children's Book," etc. He died in 1902.
Scudder VIDA DUTTON, an American educator and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
VIDA DUTTON, an American educator and writer, born in southern India, in 1861. She graduated from Smith College in 1884 and took postgraduate studies at Oxford and in Paris. From 1882 to 1910 she was associate professor of English literature at Wellesley College, and from 1910 was full professor of this branch . She wrote "Social Ideals in English Letters " (1898); "The Disciple of a Saint" (1907); "Socialism and Character" (1912 ); 2); " Church and the Hour" (1917) , and edited many English texts.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could only carry Vida Dutton Scudder as far as her 1917 book "The Church and the Hour"; she in fact went on for another three decades, retiring from Wellesley in 1928, publishing the autobiography "On Journey" in 1937, and dying in 1954 at 92, remembered now less as a professor of English than as one of America's leading Christian socialists and a founder of settlement and labor causes. Samuel Hubbard Scudder's reputation has held up best in his specialty: his "Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada" (1889) and his Orthoptera catalogues are still consulted by entomologists, and many of the names he coined remain in use. Horace Elisha Scudder, by contrast, has faded most; his editorship of the "Atlantic Monthly" and his life of Noah Webster are now of interest mainly to historians of American publishing, and his children's Bodley Books are out of print. The bare facts in all three sketches remain accurate, apart from the puzzling "1882" start date given for Vida Scudder's Wellesley professorship, two years before Collier's own account has her graduating from Smith.
Written for this edition, 2026.