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Psyche 14:67, 1907.

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PSYCHE
THE HOME OF A FAMOUS ENTOMOLOGIST.,
Just south of Boston, in the suburban village of Milton, is the house in which Thaddeus William Harris lived during those fruitful years when he divided his time between the practice of medicine and the study of entomology. In this house he established his famous collection- in its day probably the best arranged in Amer- ica - and wrote the first description of many important American insects. Here he accumulated volumes of accurate records of his observations, and made with his own hand long transcriptions from borrowed copies of books which he could not purchase. Though the classic '' Treatise on Insects Injurious to Vegetation " was not written until after Dr. Harris's removal to Cambridge, it was during his resi- dence in this house that much of the material for it was gathered. The house has had an eventful history, and has been a familiar landmark to Bostonians for a hundred and thirty years. The attention of the passer-by is attracted to it by the fine old elms by which it is sheltered, and by a marble tablet setting forth the fact that it was here that the famous Suffolk Resolves were adopted, in 1774, by A
a meeting over which General Joseph Warren presided. No tablet tells of its having been the home of one of the pioneers of American Science; but residents of the village long cherished the memory of the kindly country doctor who for sixteen years lived and worked among them.
Dr. Harris has been aptly called "the Gilbert White of New England." To
every naturalist the scene of his patient labors is historic ground. W. L. w. F.
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1 Mr. F. A. Frizell of Boston has kindly permitted tile use of the cut here presented.



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