> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 3](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189512) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7234-1) LSID 7234-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2839658) QID Q2839658 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Packard, Alpheus Spring, (1839-1905), American geologist, zoologist and botanist; MD Harvard 1864; professor of zoology and geology at Brown University 1878-1905; secretary of the U.S. Entomological Commission (to investigate the Rocky Mountain locust) 1876; Dr. med. Bowdoin 1864, LL.D. id. 1891. **Abbreviated name**: *Packard* \[standard form in IPNI: *Packard*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. Entomological colls. at Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard. Correspondence and photograph at Smithsonian Archives. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 40; BM 4: 1496-1497, 8: 969; CSP 4: 733, 8: 549-550, 10: 978-979, 12: 553-554, 17: 668-670; De Toni 1: xcvi; Ewan, ed. 1: 276, ed. 2: 166; Herder p. 392; Kew 4: 210; Langman p. 560; Lenley p. 319. ME 1: 217, 3: 633 publications); Nickles p. 807-808; NW p. 54; PH p. 509; Quenstedt p. 325; Rehder 5: 644; SO 1248C; Tucker 1: 534. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. lit. 1480. 1870. - Anon., Appleton Cycl. Amer. biogr. 4: 619-620. 1888 (biogr. of father (b. 23 Dec 1798, d. 13 Jul 1884 and son A.S.P. b. 19 Feb 1839)); Canad. Entom. 37: 111-112. 1905 (obit.); Entom. News 16(4): 97-98, *pl. 6*, 1905 (obit., portr.). - Benjamin, M., Harper's Weekly 34: 925-926. 1890 (Agassiz's pupils). - Carpenter, M.M., Amer. midl. Natural. 33: 76. 1945 (refs. to biogr.). - Cockerell, T.D.A., Biogr. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci 9: 181-236. 1920 main biogr., portr., bibl., b. 19 Feb 1839, d. 14 Feb 1905). - Dexter, R.W., Bull. Brooklyn Entom. Soc. 52: 57-66, 101-112. 1957. - Essig, E.O., Hist. entom. 727-729. 1931 (biogr., bibl., portr., biogr., refs.). - Geiser, S.W., Natural. Frontier 18, 210, 233, 235, 237. 1948. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 285. 1977. (q.v. for further biogr. refs.). - Glass, B. et al., Forerunners of Darwin 79, 84. 1968. - Henshaw, S., Bull. Div. Entom. USDA 16: 1-44. 1887 (bibl.) (biogr., entom. bibl. of 339 nos.; b. 19 Feb 1839). - Holland, W.J., Entom. mon. Mag. 41: 140-141. 1905 (obit.). - Howard, L.O., Hist. appl. entom. (Smiths. misc. coll. 84) 14-19, 81-83, 93, 102, 169, 172, 177, 207, 473, 537, *pl. 2.* 1930. - Kingsley, J.S., Pop. Sci. Mon. 33: 260-267. 1888 (biogr.). - Kingsley, J.S. & C. Barus, Science ser. 2. 21: 401-406. 1905 (obit.). - Kuznezov, N.Y., Rev. russe Entom. 5: 189-190. 1905. - Mallis, E., Amer. Entom. 296-302. 1971 (portr.). - Mead, A.D., Pop. Sci. Mon. 67: 43-48. 1905 (biogr., portr.). - Osborn, H., Fragm. entom. hist. 1: 1, 29, 34, 35, 52, 99, 100, 147, 148, 188, 205, 211, 238-240, 244, 314, *pl. 10.* - Packard, A.S., The Labrador coast, a journal of two summer cruises... New York 1891, vi, 513 p. - Poggendorff, J.C. Biogr.-Lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 997-998. 1898, 4(2): 1108. 1904 (bibl.), 5(2): 933. 1926. - Russell, F.W., Mount Auburn biographies 1953, p. 123-124. - Smith, J.B., Psyche, Cambr. 12: 33-35. 1905 (portr.). - Weiss, H.B., Pioneer cent. Amer. entom. 241-244. 1936. - W.F.K., Entomologist 38: 143-144. 1905. - Woodward, A.S., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1905: 45-46. (obit.). #### Composite works *American Naturalist*, editor vols. 1-20, 1868-1886. ### Publications ##### n.7179. The Labrador Coast **Title** *The Labrador Coast* a journal of two summer cruises to that region. With notes on its early discovery, on the Eskimo, on its physical geography, geology and natural history,... New York (N.D.C. Hodges, publisher,...), London (Kegan Paul, French, Trübner & Co.) 1891. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Labrador Coast*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1891, frontisp., p. \[1\]-7, 1-513, *5 pl*., 5 maps. *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY. – "Catalogue of the plants, compiled by John Macoun" on p. 451-474.