A List Of The North American Lepidoptera And Key To The Literature Of This Order Of Insects
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The Mosquitoes Of The United States
Harrison Gray Dyar
Mosquitoes
Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. was an American entomologist.
Background
Harrison Gray Dyar was born on February 14, 1866 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Plarrison Gray Dyar and Eleonora Rosella Hannum. Both parents were of colonial descent, the American advent of the families dating front 1632 on the father’s side and from 1677 on the mother’s.
Education
He attended the Roxbury Latin School, and in 1889 took his bachelor’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He had been interested in general biology and especially in the study of insects from the age of nineteen; in 1892 he returned to Boston and took the last year of the biology course of the Massachusetts Institute under William T. Sedgwick and spent the summer at the Woods Hole Laboratory of Marine Biology.
He then went to Columbia University, where he received his master’s degree in 1894.
Career
His doctoral thesis, published in the same Annals for November 1895, was based upon bacteriological work and was entitled “On Certain Bacteria from the Air of New York City. ”
His main interest, however, continued to be in entomology, and in 1897 he was invited to Washington to fill an honorary position in the United States National Museum.
This invitation he accepted, and became custodian of the Lepidoptera, a position he held until his death.
After the death of William H. Ashmead in 1908, Dyar was placed in charge of the whole of the insect collections of the Museum, but held this position for a comparatively short period.
He presented his very large private collection to the Museum, and continued his interest in the Lepidoptera for the rest of his life.
His main work, and the one in which he built up a lasting reputation, was with the mosquitoes.
In 1901 he became interested in mosquito larvae and later was associated with the late Frederick Knab and L. O. Howard in the preparation of a four-volume monograph, The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies.
The work on this monograph was supported by the Carnegie Institution of Washington for the years 1903 to 1906, and after that time the authors relied on help from various other sources.
Dyar himself was financially independent and was able to make at his own expense many expeditions into out-of-the way regions.
The monograph was finally completed, the first volume being published in 1912 and the last in 1917, and for many years it has been constantly consulted by the entomologists and medical men of many nations.
It was published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
In 1927, the same institution having approved a plan for the preparation and publication of a single additional volume of taxonomic range only, Dyar with tireless energy prepared a monograph, The Mosquitoes of the Americas, including the South-American fauna.
This volume was published in shortly before his death.
In 1913 he started at his own expense a monthly journal which he called Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, of which fourteen volumes were issued, which was devoted largely to shorter entomological papers, for the most part taxonomic.
He was editor of the Journal of the New York Entomological Society from 1904 to 1907 and of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington from 1909 to 1912.
In 1924 he was commissioned captain in the Sanitary Department of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the army.