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Name
  
Leland Howard


Education
  
Cornell University

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Died
  
May 1, 1950, Bronxville, New York, United States

Books
  
Fighting the insects

Leland Ossian Howard, Ph.D., M.D. (June 11, 1857 in Rockford, Illinois – May 1, 1950), was an American entomologist.

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Biography

He graduated from Cornell University in 1877. He was later employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and became chief of the Bureau of Entomology in 1894. He was the editor of Insect Life, lecturer on entomology 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, honorary curator in the United States National Museum, and consulting entomologist of the Public Health Service. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1916

Publications

  • 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 Jr., Frederick Knab, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917
  • Fighting the insects: the story of an entomologist, MacMillan, 1933

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