Papers of Harrison G. Dyar, 1885-1930.

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Papers of Harrison G. Dyar, 1885-1930.

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Correspondence, documents, and five manuscript volumes of Dyar (Dyer) family genealogy.

500 items.2 containers.

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Dyer family.

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Dyar, Harrison G. (Harrison Gray), 1866-1929

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Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929) was honorary Custodian of the National Museum's collection of lepidoptera for more than thirty years; he served largely as an unpaid curator, although he was briefly on the payroll of the Department of Agriculture. A graduate of Columbia University (Ph.D. 1895), he worked on lepidoptera, especially their larvae; larvae of saw flies, larvae of mosquitoes, and bacteria. Around the turn of the century, interest in mosquito-borne diseases attracted his attention; he an...