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Packard, Alpheus Spring (Naturalist educator author)

naturalist, educator, author, was born Feb. 19, 1839, in Brunswick, Maine. He is a naturalist of eminence, and professor of geology and zoölogy in Brown university since 1878. He is the author of Zoology; Life Histories of Animals, or Comparative Embryology; Guide to the Study of Insects; Half-Hours with Insects; Our Common Insects; Entomology for Beginners; A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast; and Observations on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and Maine.

PACKARD, MRS. ELIZABETH PAR- SONS WARE, reformer, philanthropist, was born in 1816, in Ware, Mass. Her father was the founder of the town of her nativity. She secured the adoption for thirty-four states of laws for the protection of insane persons; and further secured in many states legal recognition of married women regarding their property.

She gave thirty years of her life to this humane work, and expended fifty thousand dollars in prosecuting the work. She died in July, 1895.

PACKARD, FREDERICK ADOLPHUS, author, was born Sept. 25, 1794, in Marlborough, Mass. He was a Philadelphia writer and editor for nearly forty years of the publications of the American Sunday School union. He was the author of The Teacher Taught; Life of Robert Owen; Visit to European Hospitals; The Teacher Teaching; and Union Bible Dictionary. He died Nov. 11, 1867, in Philadelphia, Pa.