SCUDDER, David Colt, missionary, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 27 October, 1835; died near Periakulum, India, 19 November, 1862. He was graduated at Williams in 1855, and at Andover theological seminary in 1859. Having determined to become a missionary, he prepared himself by study of the Eastern languages until his ordination on 25 February, 1861, and in 1862 he was given the Periakulum station in the Nadura district of southern India, where he labored until his death. He contributed a series of papers on foreign missions to the New York "Independent." See "Life and Letters of David Coit Scudder," by Horace E. Scudder (New York, 1864). --His brother, Samuel Hubbard, naturalist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 13 April, 1837, was graduated at Williams in 1857, and at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1862. where in 1862-'4 he acted as assistant to Louis Agassiz in the Museum of comparative zoology. In 1862-'70 he was secretary of the Boston society of natural history, and he served as custodian to the same society in 1864-'70 and as its president in 1880-'7. Mr. Scudder was appointed in 1879 assistant librarian of Harvard, where he remained until 1885, and in 1886 he became Falcontologist of the United States geological survey, which place he now (1888) holds. He is a member of many scientific societies, was chairman of the section on natural history of the American association for the advancement of science in 1874, and general secretary of the association in 1875, librarian of the American academy of arts and sciences in 1877-'85, and in 1877 was elected to the National academy of sciences. His specialty is entomology, and he has chiefly studied butterflies and fossil insects, in the knowledge of which he has no superior in this country. He has reported officially on the insects of New Hampshire, and has examined the specimens that were collected in the Yellowstone expedition of 1873, and on the geological surveys under Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, Ferdinand V. Hayden, the British North America boundary commission, and the Canadian geological survey. During 1883-'5 he was editor of "Science," published in Cambridge. His bibliography down to 1880 has been collected by George Dimmock, and includes about 300 titles. His larger works are "Catalogue of the Orthoptera of North America" (Washington, 1868) ; "Entomological Correspondence of Thad-deus William Harris " (Boston, 1869) ; "Fossil Butterflies" (Salem, 1875) ; "Catalogue of Scientific Serials of all Countries, including the Transactions of Learned Societies, in the Natural, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences, 1633-1876 " (Cambridge, 1879) ; "Butterflies, their Structure, Changes, and Life Histories " (New York, 1882); "Nomenclator Zoologicus: An A1phabetica List of all Generic Names that have been employed by Naturalists for Recent and Fossil Animals" (Washington, 1882); " Systematic Review of Our Present Knowledge of Fossil Insects" (1886), originally contributed to Zittel's "Handbueh der Palaeontologie" (Munich, 1885) ; and the "Winnipeg Country, or Roughing it with an Eclipse Party," by A Rochester Fellow (Boston, 1886).--Another brother, Horace Elisha, author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 16 October, 1838, was graduated at Williams in 1858, and soon afterward came to New York city, where he taught for three years. Meanwhile he wrote his first stories for children, which were issued as "Seven Little People and their Friends" (New York, 1862). The death of his father led to his return to Boston, and the success of his first book decided him to follow literature exclusively. His second work was " Dream Children" (Cambridge, 1863), and then he prepared "The Life and Letters of David Coit Scudder" (New York. 1864). He was editor of "The Riverside Magazine for Young People " during the four years of its existence (1867-'70), and published in its third volume "Stories from My Attic" (Boston, 1869). He has since been associated with the firm of Houghton, Mifflin and Co., and has edited for them the series of " American Commonwealths," also "' American Poems" (1879) and "American Prose " (1880). Mr. Scudder was one of the writers of Justin Winsor's "Memorial History of Boston " (Boston, 1880-'1).His other works include "The Bodley Books," a series of books for children (8 vols., Boston, 1875-'87) ; "The Dwellers in Five-Sisters Court" (1876); "Men and Manners in America" (New York, 1876) ; "Stories and Romances" (Boston, 1880) ; " The Children's Book" (1881); "Boston Town" (1881) ; "Noah Webster," in the "American Men of Letters " series (1882) ; a " History of the United States" (Philadelphia, 1884) ; and" Men and Letters." He was joint author with Mrs. Bayard Taylor of "Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor" (Boston, 1884).--David Coit's daughter, Yhla Dutton, author, born in Madura, India, 15 December, 1861, was graduated at Smith college in 1884, and subsequently spent a year in higher studies at Oxford, England. In 1887 she became instructor at Weblesley college, which place she now (1888) fills. Miss Scudder has published "How the Rain Sprites were Freed " (Boston, 1883), and "Selected Poems from George MacDonald" (New York, 1887).