The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Emerton, James H.

EMERTON, James H., American naturalist and illustrator: b. Salem, Mass., 1847. He is the illustrator of Packard's &lsquo;Guide to the Study of Insects&rsquo;; Scudder's &lsquo;Butterflies of North America&rsquo;; Verrill's papers in &lsquo;Reports of the United States Fish Commission&rsquo; (1884); and Minot's &lsquo;Embryology.&rsquo; He is the author of seven papers on &ldquo;New England Spiders&rdquo; in the &lsquo;Transactions&rsquo; of the Connecticut Academy; &lsquo;The Structure and Habits of Spiders&rsquo; (1878) and &lsquo;Common Spiders of the United States&rsquo; (1902). Emerton constructed anatomical and zoological models for museums at Cambridge, New Haven, New York and Washington.