Edward Oliver Essig

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edward Oliver Essig ( 29 September 1884 Arcadia - 23 November 1964, Lafayette) was an American entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera.

Essig was a professor at the University of California.He wrote Injurious and Beneficial Insects of California (1913), Insects of Western North America (1926), A History of Entomology (1931), College Entomology (1942) and several hundred scientific works on Hemiptera. The Essig Museum of Entomology is named for him. He was also interested in horticulture and wrote A check-list of Fuchsias. American Fuchsia Society (1936).

References

Michelbacher, A.E. and R.F. Smith. 1965. Edward Oliver Essig and the bibliography of E.O. Essig and insects named by him. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 41(4): 207-258.

External links

Essig Museum of Entomology
Long Biography
Works by or about Edward Oliver Essig in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Authority control	VIAF: 7758558 ISNI: 0000 0000 8087 3493

Persondata
Name	Essig, Edward Olive
Alternative names
Short description	American entomologist
Date of birth	29 September 1884
Place of birth
Date of death	23 November 1964
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.