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Born February 24, 1849 • Janesville • Wisconsin
Died March 20, 1931 (aged 82) • Ithaca • New York • (Anniversary in 6 days)
Notable Family Members spouse Anna Botsford Comstock
Subjects Of Study insect • lepidopteran • scale insect • taxonomy
Leland Ossian Howard
American entomologist
Say, Thomas
Thomas Say
American naturalist
Johann Christian Fabricius, engraving by G.L. Lahde, 1805
Johann Christian Fabricius
Danish entomologist
Charles De Geer
Swedish entomologist
Anna Botsford Comstock.
Anna Botsford Comstock
American illustrator and writer
William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
Charles Valentine Riley
American entomologist
Sir Vincent Wigglesworth
British entomologist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
Latreille, detail of an engraving after a portrait, 1823
Pierre-André Latreille
French zoologist
Fabre, Jean Henri
Jean Henri Fabre
French entomologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
American educator
Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Agassiz
Swiss scientist
Hitchcock, Albert Spear
Albert Spear Hitchcock
American botanist
Earnest A. Hooton
American anthropologist