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bites, the brain of Crustacea, on alpine insect life, on blind or cave animals, and articles on organic evolution. His larger scientific memoirs include : Glacial Phenomena of Maine and Lab- rador (1806), Eevisio7i of the Fossorial Hymenop- tera of North America (1860-67); Development and Anatomy of Limulus Polyphemus (1871-95); Monograph of the Geometrid J/o^/is (1876); The Brain of the Locust (ISSl); Monograph of the North American Phyllopod Crustacea (1883); The Cave Fauna of North America (1888) ; Mono- graph of the Bombycine Moths (1895). His text- books include: A Guide to the Study of Insects (1869), (1868-72); Onr Common Insects (1876); Life-Histories of Animals, including Man, or Outlines of Comparative Embryology (1876); Half Hours u'ith Insects (1877); Insects of the West (1877) ; Zoology for Students and General Read- ers, (1879, Briefer Course, 1883) ; First Lessons in Geology (1882); First Lesso7is in Zoology (1886) ; Entomology for Beginners (1888); For- est and Shade-Tree Insects (1888), and Text-book of Entomology (1898). His general works ai-e : A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast (1888); and Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution, His Life and Work (1901). For titles of papers on insects see " The Entomological Writings of Dr. Alpheus Spring Packard," by Samuel Henshaw (1887).

PACKARD, Hezekiah, educator and clergy- man, was born in North Bridgewater, Mass., December 6, 1761 ; son of Jacob and Dorothy (Perkins) Packard. He served in the Revolu- tionary war at Bunker Hill, and afterward at Castle William (Fort Independence) and at Har- lem Heights. He engaged in farming, but an injury preventing him from performing such labor, directed his thoughts to higher education, and he was graduated from Harvard college, A.B., 1787, A.M., 1790. He became principal of the Cambridge grammar school in 1788, was as- sistant librarian at Harvard college in 1789, and tutor in mathematics there, 1789-93. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, 1793, was pastor at Chelmsford, Mass., 1793-1802 ; at Wiscasset, Maine, 1802-30,' and at Middlesex Village, Mass., 1830-36. He was married in Sep- tember, 1796, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Al- pheus and Sarah (Frost) Spring of Kittery (now Eliot), Maine. He was the founder of the Bible society of Lincoln county, Maine, and of the Eastern Evangelical society, an overseer of Bow- doin college, 1802-13, and a member of the board of trustees, 1813-30. He was a liberal Congrega- tionalist, being classed in Sprague's " Annals "as a " Trinitarian-Unitarian." He received the hon- orary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1818. He is the author of : Federal Republicanism (1799) ; The Christian''s 21anual (1801) ; Infant Baptism (1815). He died in Salem, Mass., April 22, 1849.

PACKARD, Jasper, representative, was born in Austintown, Malioning county, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1832, son of Thomas and Nancy Ann Packard ; grandson of John and Mary Packard. He removed to Indiana with his father in 1835, and labored on the farm until 1850 ; attended Michigan Central college, and Oberlin college, Ohio ; was graduated at the University of Michigan, A.B., 1855, and taught school, 1855-56. He was married Oct. 4, 1855, to Harriet S., daughter of George and Therina Tibbits of Farmington, Mich., and then settled in Laporte, Ind., where he edited the Union and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1861, and in the same year entered the Union army, rising from the rank of private to that of 1st lieutenant in the 48th Indiana infantry. In the Vicksburg campaign, where he received a facial wound, he was promoted captain. He was in the march from Memphis to Chattanooga, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 128th Indiana infantry during the Atlanta campaign. He was brevetted brigadier-general of the volunteers, March 13, 1865, for meritorious ser- vices, and was mustered out of the army in 1866. He was auditor of Laporte county, Ind., 1866-68 ; was a Republican representative from the eleventh Indiana district in the 41st, 42d and 43d congresses, 1869-75, and was chairman of the committee on private land claims. He established and edited the Laporte Chronicle 1874-78 ; was U.S. internal revenue agent 1876-84, and pro- prietor and editor of the Laporte Daily Public Sjiirit, 1886-88. In 1888 he removed to New Albany, Ind., and was proprietor and editor of the New Albany Evening Tribune, and a represen- tative in the Indiana legislature 1896-98. He received the honorary degree of A. 31. from Hills- dale college, Mich., in 1873. On June 1, 1899, he was appointed commandant of the Soldiers' Home, Lafayette, Ind., and he died there, Dec. 13, 1899.

PACKARD, Joseph, educator, was born in Wiscasset, Me., Dec, 23, 1812; son of the Rev. Hezekiah and Mary (Spring) Packard ; grandson of Jacob and Dorothy (Perkins) Packard and of Alpheus and Sarah (Frost) Spring, and a descen- dant of Samuel Packard, who settled first at Hingham, then in AVest Bridgewater, Mass., in 1638. Joseph Packard attended the private school kept bj' his father, and Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from Bowdoin college, A.B., 1831, A.M., 1834. He taught in the academies at Walpole, N.H., and Brattle- boro, Vt., 1831-33; attended Andover Theological seminary, 1833-34 ; and was professor of Latin at Bristol college. Pa., 1834-36. He was ordained deacon in 1836 and advanced to the priesthood in 1S37 ; was professor of sacred literature at the P, E. Theological seminary, Fairfax county, Va., 1836-95 ; dean of the seminary, 1880-95, and