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He studied at the University of Texas at Austin and at Columbia University.
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Key to the families of North American insects; an introduction to the classification of insects
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Insects and Human Welfare; An Account of the More Important Relations of Insects to the Health of Man, to Agriculture, and to Forestry
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Classification of Insects: A Key to the Known Families of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods (Classic Reprint)
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Key to the Families of North American Insects: An Introduction to the Classification to Insects
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Insects and human welfare; an account of the more important relations of insects to the health of man, to agriculture, and to forestry
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Charles Brues
Edit ProfileBotanist entomologist Zoologist
Career
He was appointed field agent of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 1904-1905, curator of invertebrate zoology in the Milwaukee Public Museum 1905-1909, and then became instructor in economic entomology at Harvard University. His contributions on embryology and the habits of insects, notably the Hymenoptera — ants, bees, et cetera, and Diptera — mosquitoes, flies, fleas, et cetera, are highly instructive. He was editor of the Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society 1907-1909, and in 1910 was appointed editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology.
In 1913, while employed at the Bussey Institution, he was part of a three-person team (along with Ernest Tyzzer and Doctor Richard P Strong) that studied tropical diseases in Peru and Ecuador.
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Classification of Insects: A Key to the Known Families of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods (Classic Reprint)
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Insects and human welfare; an account of the more important relations of insects to the health of man, to agriculture, and to forestry
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Key to the families of North American insects; an introduction to the classification of insects
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Insects and Human Welfare; An Account of the More Important Relations of Insects to the Health of Man, to Agriculture, and to Forestry
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Key to the Families of North American Insects: An Introduction to the Classification to Insects
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- Classification of Insects: Keys to the Living and Extinct Families of Insects, and to the Living Families of other Terrestrial Arthropods
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Classification of Insects: A Key to the Known Families of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods (Classic Reprint)
