Leland Ossian Howard

Leland Ossian Howard in 1911.

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

Biography

He graduated from Cornell University in 1877. He was later employed by the 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.

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

References

• Bishopp, Fred Corry (1957). "Leland Ossian Howard Centennial 1857–1957". Bulletin of the ESA. 3 (3): 1–3.
• Graf, John E.; Graf, Dorothy W. (1959). "Leland Ossian Howard 1857-1950" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences.
• Mallis, Arnold (1971). American Entomologists. Rutgers University Press. pp. 79–86. ISBN 0-8135-0686-7.
• Russell, Louise M. (1978). "Leland Ossian Howard: A Historical Review". Annual Review of Entomology. 23: 1–15.

External links

• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
• Works by Leland Ossian Howard at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Leland Ossian Howard at the Internet Archive