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Edward Fred Knipling
American entomologist
Anna Botsford Comstock.
Anna Botsford Comstock
American illustrator and writer
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Sir Vincent Wigglesworth
British entomologist
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Leland Ossian Howard
American entomologist
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William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
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Charles Valentine Riley
American entomologist
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
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Orlando Park
American entomologist
Say, Thomas
Thomas Say
American naturalist
Johann Christian Fabricius, engraving by G.L. Lahde, 1805
Johann Christian Fabricius
Danish entomologist
Fabre, Jean Henri
Jean Henri Fabre
French entomologist
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Filippo Silvestri
Italian entomologist
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John Henry Comstock
American entomologist
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Charles De Geer
Swedish entomologist
Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
British banker, politician, and naturalist
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Marston Bates
American zoologist

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