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Department of Entomology records

1893-1986 (majority 1926-1965)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1417

The Department of Entomology was established in 1859 to focus on teaching, research, regulation, extension services, and instructional aspects of entomology. The collection consists of such materials as articles, speeches, and photographs created by the department or its faculty members and documents the administration of the department as well as many of its experiments and projects.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6326793

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Bickley, William E. (William Elbert), 1914-2010

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William Elbert Bickley was a zoologist, entomologist (specializing in mosquitoes), and professor of entomology at the University of Maryland from 1949 to 1978. Bickley was born on 20 January 1914 in Knoxville, Tennesse. He received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from University of Tennessee in 1934, and later received master's and doctoral degrees from University of Maryland. During World War II, he worked to control malaria as a captain in the U.S. Public Health Service. Later in life, ...

Bissell, Theodore L. (Lemuel), 1899-1992

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Theodore Lemuel Bissell was born in St. Mary's, Ohio, on December 9, 1899. He attended the Maryland State College of Agriculture, now the University of Maryland, College Park, where he received a B. S. in entomology in 1920. During his college years, he was an active member of the New Mercer Literary Society, the Horticulture Club, and the Rossborough Club, as well as serving as captain of Company C of the corps of cadets during his senior year. Bissell received an M. S. in entomol...

University of Maryland, College Park. Dept. of Entomology.

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Established in 1859 to focus on the teaching, research, regulation, and extension services and instruction aspects of entomology. From the description of Records. 1895-1986. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20405861 ...

Langford, George Curtis, 1921-

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Langford, George Curtis

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University of Maryland, College Park

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Entomology

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The Department of Entomology of the University of Maryland can trace its beginning to the origins of the Maryland Agricultural College. When the college opened on October 6, 1859, the chair of Botany and Entomology was vacant, but only briefly. That fall, Townend Glover, the first entomologist of the United States government, accepted the postion. With Glover's appointment, the teaching of entomology at Maryland began. This was, probably, the first such course offered in the United ...