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Psyche 3:199, 1880.

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PSYCHE, . 199
His nim was to obtain both sexes of every PSYCHE.
species existing in ~orth America, and, hav- ing ample means. he spared hardly any
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., APRIL 1881.
expense in pursuance of this purpose.
More-
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over, the liberality with which he granted cornmy vications, @XChang<s uftd eiii#(~rs* copies the use of his cabinet to other students xkoufd be addressed to Em-i-on& OF PSYCHE, Cans- secured for him their good will and coopera- briffjfs, ,Ifass. Coff:mnfiimt/ofi.v fpr ft~tbIicctiion T'JI tion. and through them he received immense PSYCHE must ie property aiiihf~firaied, ad no anally- additions ,to his cabinet. So thoroughly hnd meus artiden wiU bf pti!i//shfd.
the field been explored for him that for a long Ed//ors mfi coiatribr~iof*s are only re~pofwbie for time before his death he was rarely able to the statetftwts wudf in ififif GWU cofftvit~fticailofix. add any new species except the very minute ll'orh en stttj'ects not dated iff eniewotogy &/I vot ones, and possessed nearly all that were frt r#i^tued HI PBTCTIK.
known BS occurring in North America.
The
PQr rdrs of sftif;rcrfp;io~s find of tfd-ve^fim*~, .WE extent and wonderfully perfect state of pre- advpriisiasf co/trw: ÌöS
scrvation of his collection attracted the GEORGE DOLE SMITH.
attention of the leading students of his spec- Born + Sept, 1833, in Biddeford, Maine.
ialty in the country, and from them he re- Died 6 July 1880, in Cnrnbridge, Mass.
ceived many visits. It wns his practice to Mr. Smith was by trade a watchmaker and
relax and remount every specimen which he jeweller. Ailer carrying on hi6 business in placed in his cabinet, and it is rare to find a Maine, Virginia, Illinois. and Missouri, he limb or a joint missing, while all these parts entered the establishment of Pnl ,ner,
are set in the attitudes of the living individ- elder and Co., in Boston, Mass.. where he uals.
Very few specimens had ever been in
acted as salesman in the watch department alcohol, hence they possessed the brilliancy for about nineteen years. and was for the last of lire. The whole North American collec- thirteen years a member of the firm.
By his
tion is most neatly labelled and arranged in kind Inan neTs, ac,..mmod~t il,g and
more than two hundred boxes made in forin thorough knowledge of his business he won of large octavo books, and covered with black many friends and increased in no small dc- These boxes are ran^ "Po"
gree the pi,tronage of the establi8hl ,3en ta sht'1t'es in cnbillekq with glass doors- But devoted as he WEIS to the interests of the In itddition to his North Americnq collec- firm, his heart wa-; elsewhere.
tion Mr. Smith had a quite extensive collec- He was a the En- tion of sonth American coleopterit, mostly ~lnoio~ic~~ club. rind of the oston society dom:iolls from varionq friends. He had of Natural History, though not ft frequent vent in'ach labor the of upan the meetings of either society.
these
"0"' f'rt~ wooden ^"l)g boxes,
H~ was an student of coleopt and except by c0:nparis~~ collection in and for lno12 than twenty years gave itself muM be c ~ n ~ i ~ ~ ~ ~ d a mnument of Ieiswe time to the co~hxtim, mmngement
indL1slrynn(l
and study of these insects. Indeed, so assid- Mr. Smith was not simply a collector of in- uons was his devotion to his that
He Posses^ ' ^J good entornolog-
few pel.sons had an opportunity of making ica1 lib^ary, and was well read in the &me hi, acquaintance out of business
un-
He wiled also a fine and wcll-eqiiipped binoc- less they him in his In his ular microscope, and wins contemplating the earlier years he established the foundation performance of extensive work with this
of his
by his own exertions, but instrument when death put EI stop to nil his inter, being unable to travel extensively, and P'~"'.- rAbstract Of a memoir read
.f :
finding rather in his vicinity, he
O~IIC, jr., before the Boston Smiety of Nat- resorted largely to purchase and exchange. "' ^tor~-j
B: P. M.




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