Leland Ossian Howard
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- May 1, 1950), was an American
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entomologist.
Biography
He graduated from Cornell UniversityCornell University
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in 1877. He was later employed by the Department of Agriculture, and became chief of the Bureau of Entomology
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in 1894. He was the editor of Insect Life, lecturer on entomology
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at several colleges and universities, and a contributor to reference books on the subject of entomology. He was made permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, honorary curator in the United States National Museum
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, and consulting entomologist of the Public Health Service.
Books
- Mosquitoes, McClure, Phillips & co., 1901
- The Insect Book, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901
- The House Fly-Disease Carrier, Frederick A. Stokes company, 1911
- Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies, Authors Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917
- Fighting the insects: the story of an entomologist, MacMillan, 1933
Sources
- "Leland Ossian Howard Centennial 1857-1957", Bishopp, Fred Corry, Bulletin of the ESA, Volume 3, Number 3, September 1957 , pp. 1–3(3)