William Dandridge Peck
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William Dandridge Peck was America
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 ’s first native entomologist. He was a professor at Harvard College
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. His pioneering entomological article was "The Description and History of the Canker Worm" Mass. Mag. Vol.7 (1795), describing the species as Phalaena vernata, the spring cankerworm.

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