C. W. Johnson.
Obituary—Louis William Swett.
Psyche 37:300-302, 1930.

Full text (searchable PDF, 356K)
Durable link: http://psyche.entclub.org/37/37-300.html

The following unprocessed text is extracted from the PDF file, and is likely to be both incomplete and full of errors. Please consult the PDF file for the complete article.

================================================================================

LOUIS WILLIAM SWETT
The friends of Louis W. Swett were greatly shocked to learn of his untimely death. He was killed by lightning at his summer home on Baker Island, Salem Harbor, Massa- chusetts, July 21, 1930.
Mr. Swett was born at Riverside, California, October 2, 1880, and came East with his parents when about ten years of age. He attended the Hopkinton School, Boston, where he prepared for Harvard, and was a student from 1900-1902.
I first met Mr. Swett in 1903, when he was interested in Lepidoptera as a whole, but later he specialized on the Geometridse, describing many new species. He gave his
first collection of Geometridse to the Museum of Compara- tive Zoology at Harvard in 1912, when his business did not give him sufficient time to devote to it. Later, however, with his friend Mr. S. E. Cassino, he made a second col- lection, and jointly they published "The Lepidopterist." He was a member of the Boston Society of Natural His- tory, the Cambridge Entomological Club, of which he was president in 1911, Pi Eta Society of Harvard, etc. Mr. Swett was proprietor of a large dry goods store at Lexington, Mass., known as "The Modern Shop," and also had a store at Somerville, Mass. He is survived by his wife, daughter and mother, to whom we extend our sincere sympathy.
-C. W. JOHNSON.




================================================================================