John Henry Comstock: Quick Facts


Facts

Born February 24, 1849 • Janesville • Wisconsin
Died March 20, 1931 (aged 82) • Ithaca • New York
Notable Family Members spouse Anna Botsford Comstock
Subjects Of Study insect • lepidopteran • scale insect • taxonomy

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Leland Ossian Howard
American entomologist
Say, Thomas
Thomas Say
American naturalist
Johann Christian Fabricius, engraving by G.L. Lahde, 1805
Johann Christian Fabricius
Danish entomologist
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Charles De Geer
Swedish entomologist
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Edward Fred Knipling
American entomologist
Anna Botsford Comstock.
Anna Botsford Comstock
American illustrator and writer
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William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
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Charles Valentine Riley
American entomologist
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Sir Vincent Wigglesworth
British entomologist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Latreille, detail of an engraving after a portrait, 1823
Pierre-André Latreille
French zoologist
Fabre, Jean Henri
Jean Henri Fabre
French entomologist
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George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist
Hitchcock, Albert Spear
Albert Spear Hitchcock
American botanist
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Earnest A. Hooton
American anthropologist