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Angiist-September 1884.1 PSYCHE. 205
PSYCHE.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., AUG.-SEPT. 1884.
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FRANCIS GREGORY SANBORN.
Born IS Jan. 1838, at Andover, Mass.
Died 4 June 1884. at Providence, R. I.
Francis Gregory Sanborn was the son of
Eastman and Mary C. L. (Gregory) Sanborn. His father died in 18.59; his mother, to whom he was dutiful and affectionate, in 1883. Mr. Sanhorn was a devoted and aft'able friend to his associates, a genius and a close observer. lie used his talents often for the good of others, but little for his own worldly advance- ment. His interest in natural history was of early development, giving occasion for re- mark and re.cord in his mother's journal when he was hut little more than three years old. It was constantand absorbing', leading him to abandon opportunities for private gain. such as that of succeeding to his father's practice as a dentist, for which he had fitted himself and hv which he might have prospered pecun- iarily.
Mr. Sanborn was widely known to the en-
toniologists of the eastern United States, and almost constantly engaged in the care orpre- paration of collections of insects or other objects of natural history belonging to public institutions or private possessors. He was graduated at Phillips academy, in Andover, Mass., in 1858, after a six years' course of, study interrupted at times on account of ill health. In October 1858 he found employment in the Massachusetts State cabinet of natural history at the state house in Boston, the collection in which, according to Governor N. P. Banks. he built up. Here he remained, with occasional vacations, until the summer of 1865, being also clerk to C. L. Flint, the secretary of the Massachusetts State board of agriculture. He was engaged in miscella- neous work in the museum of the Boston
society of natural history in 1865 and 1866 and as regular assistant from 1867 to 1873, having particular care of the insects, also perforn~ing general duties, lecturing, and at times acting as secretary. In 1872 he was a justice of the peace and a member of the school committee in West Roxbury, Mass.
At this time also he was instructor in ento- mology at the Bussey institution, in Jamaica Plain. and lecturer at the Museum of compar- ative zoology in Cambridge, but was soon iifterwards affected with mental trouble which cauhecl his tieclusion, at private expense, for about seven months. at the state hospital in Worcester. Here he entered into relations with the Worcester societyof natural history, of which he afterwards became curator, an office he held at the time of his death. In 1874 he was an assistant in the Kentucky qtate geological survey, under Professor N. S. Shaler.
In 1876 he was engaged to pre-
pare the entomological exhibit of the United States Department of agriculture for the Cen- tennial exposition at Philadelphia.
IIe was a member of the American asso-
ciation for the advancement of science, Bos- ton society of natural history, Cambridge entomological club. Essex institute, corres- ponding member of the American entomo-
logical society, Entomological society of Ontario, and New York entomological socie- ty, and member of other learned societies. B: P. M.




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