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 SCUDDER

SCUDDER

British Literature: American Poems (ISTO) ; American Prose (1880) ; American Comnion- weallljs (1SS3-9-2) ; and others. See " Horace E. Scudder : An Appreciation," by Alexander V. G. Allen {Atlantic Motithly, April. 1903). Mr. Scud- der died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 11, 1903.

SCUDDER, John, missionary, was born in Freeliold. N.J.. Sept. 3, 1T9;5 ; son of Dr. Joseph and Maria (Johnson) Scudder, and a grandson of Cul. Natlianiel and Isabella (Anderson) Scudder, and of Col. Philip Johnson. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1811, A.M., 1814, and at tlie College of Physicians and Sur- geons, New York city, in 1813. He practised medicine in Neu- York city, 1813-18. He was married in 1816 to Harriet, daughter of Gideon "Waterbury of Stamford, Conn., and their two daughters and seven of their eight sons became missionaries. He sailed for India as a mission- ary, having been ordained by the classis of the Dutcli Reformed church in 1820, and was stationed at Tillipally. Ceylon, 1820-89, where, in addition to his religious duties, he established and conducted a hospital. He was stationed at Madras. India, 1839-42 ; was in the United States, where he advanced the cause of the American Board of Foreign Missions, 1842-46 ; at Madras, 1846-54 : and in 1854 went to the Cape of Good Hope, Africa, with a view to restore his failing healtii. He is the author of: Letters from the East (1833); Appeal to Youth in Behalf of the Heathen (1846) ; Letters to Pious Young Men (1846) : Provision for Passing Over Jordan (1852) : and many contributions to the 3Iission- ary Herald. See "Memoir" by Rev. John B. Waterbury (1856). He died at Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope. Africa, Jan. 13, 1855.

SCUDDER, Nathaniel, delegate, was born at Huntington. Lung Island, N.Y., May 10, 1733; sun of Jacob and Abia (Rowe) Scudder ; grand- son of Benjamin Scudder. and a descendant of Tliomas Scudder, who came from London, Eng- land, to Salem, Mass.. about 1G35. Nathaniel Scudder was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1751, A.M., 1754. He was married, March 23, 1752, to Isabella, daughter of Col. Kenneth and Anne (Reed) Anderson of Monmoutli county, N.J. He was a practising physician in Monmouth county, N.J. ; a member of tiie committee of safety ; lieutenant-colonel in 1775 ; and subsequently colonel of the 1st Monmoutli county regiment, and was killed while leading a battalion of his regiment against the British, at Black's Point, N.J., Oct. 16, 1781. H*^ represented Monmouth county in the New Jersey legislature several terms ; was speaker in 1776 ; a delegate to the Continental congress, 1777-79 ; and on July 13, 1778, visited the legisla- ture of New Jersey to urge upon that body the

policy of signing the Articles of Confederation. He was a trustee of the College of New Jersey, 1778-81. He died at Black's Point, near Shrews- bury. N.J., Oct. 16, 1781.

SCUDDER, Samuel Hubbard, naturalist, was born in Boston, Mass., April 13, 1837 ; son of Charles and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder. He entered Williams college with the class of 1857 ; was graduated, A. B., 1857, A.M., 1860; took a post-graduate course at the Lawrence Scientific school. Harvard university, and received his degree, S.B., 1863. He was assistant in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1862-64 ; was University lecturer at Harvard, 1863-64, and assistant librarian, 1879-82. He was connected with the Boston Natural History society, as sec- retary, 1862-70, as custodian, 1864-70, and as president, 1880-87. He was married, June 25, 1867, to Jeannie, daughter of Edgcumbe Heath and Mary Ann Blatchford of New York. He was a member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and chairman of the sec- tion on natural history in 1874 ; general secretary in 1875 ; librarian of the American Academj^ of Arts and Sciences, 1877-85, and paleontologist on the U.S. geological survey, 1886-92. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical society ; an honorary member of the Society of Physics and Natural History at Geneva, of the Entomological societies of London and of St. Petersburg, and the Natural History society of Madrid, and a corresponding member of various other learned societies of Europe. He received the degree S.D. from Williams, and LL.D. from Western university, in 1890. He reported on the entomo- logical specimens obtained by the government expedition to the Yellowstone survey, on the boundary between Canada aud the United States. He edited Science (1883-85) ; and his bibliography of more than fi%'e hundred titles includes : Cata- logue of the Orthoptera of the United States (1868) ; Entomological Correspondence of Tliaddeus William Harris (1869) ; Fossil Butterflies (1875); Catalogue of Scientific Serials of all Cotniiries 1G33-1S76 (1879) ; A Century of Orthoptera (1879) ; Butterflies (1881) ; Nomenclator Zoologi- cus (1882) ; Systematic Review of Our Present Knoioledge of Fossil Lisects (1886) ; Winnipeg County ; or Roughing it with an Eclipse Party (1886) ; Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada (1889); Bibliography of Fossil In- sects (1890) ; Lidex to the Known Fossil Insects of the World (1891) ; Tertiary Rhynchophororts Coleoptera of the United States (1893) ; Brief Guide to the Common Butterflies (1893); Tlie Life of a Butterfly (1893) ; Frail Children of the Air (1895); Guide to the Genera and Classification of North American Orthoptera (1897); Everyday