Samuel Hubbard Scudder

Samuel Hubbard Scudder

Samuel Hubbard Scudder (born April 13, 1837 in Boston , † May 17, 1911 in Boston) was an American entomologist and paleontologist .

In 1857 he completed his studies at Williams College , 1862 from Harvard University . He is considered to be one of the first paleontologists to specialize in insects . He also studied the butterflies (Lepidoptera), the jumping (Orthoptera) and catching horror (Mantodea), Blattoidea and fossil Arthropoda .

As a student of Mark Hopkins at Williams College and Louis Agassiz at Harvard University , Scudder was extremely productive, publishing 791 papers between 1858 and 1902 on the fields of bio- and paleobiogeography , ontogenesis of insect behavior, phylogeny , insect sounds , palichnology , evolution , insect biology , and economic Entomology. He also wrote works on ethnology , geology and geography . Scudders Nomenclator Zoologicus (1882-1884) was an extensive list of all genus and family names in zoology .

Scudder was also a curator , librarian and between 1859 and 1870, and 1880 and 1887 President of the Boston Society of Natural History . In 1868 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1877 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1874 he was one of the founders of the Cambridge Entomological Club and its journal Psyche. A year later he became general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , which he chaired again in 1894 as vice president. In 1883 he took over Science, which was facing ruin, and was able to save it for a short time. But the following year the paper ran into financial difficulties again and had to be sold in 1885.

Works

• Butterflies: Their Structure, Changes, and Life Histories (1881)
• Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada (1889)
• The Fossil Insects of North America (two volumes, 1890)
• Index to the Known Fossil Insects of the World (1891)
• Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States (1893)
• The Life of a Butterfly (1893)
• Revision of the Orthopteran Group Melanopli (1897)
• Everyday Butterflies (1899)
• Catalog of the Described Orthoptera of the United States and Canada (1900)
• Adephagous and Clavicorn Coleoptera from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Colorado (1900)
• Index to North American Orthoptera (1901)