Packard

Packard, ALPHEUS SPRING, an American naturalist, son of the historian of Bowdoin College, was born at Brunswick, Maine, 19th February 1839, graduated at Bowdoin in 1861, and was for a time assistant to Agassiz at Cambridge. He took part in several scientific expeditions, was state entomologist of Massachusetts in 1871–73, and lectured at Bowdoin and elsewhere. In 1878 he became professor of Zoology and Geology at Brown University. But he is best known as a distinguished entomologist; his classification of insects, proposed in 1863, has been generally accepted. As an evolutionist, Professor Packard is one of the leaders of the 'Neo-Lamarckian' school (see LAMARCK). Besides popular works and textbooks, his writings include Structure of the Ovipositor of Insects (1868), Development and Anatomy of Limulus Polyphemus (1871–85), The Cave Fauna of North America (1888), The Labrador Coast (1891), monographs on the geometrid moths, the locust's brain, phyllopod crustacea, &c.