Includes photographs and extensive bibliography on the history of American entomology.
Summary:
Contains biographies of many Smithsonian entomologists, such as Thomas Merton Aldrich, Andrew Nelson Caudell, Austin Hobart Clark, Harrison Gray Dyar, Leland Ossian Howard, Frederick Knab, William M. Mann, Charles Lester Marlatt, Charles Valentine Riley, Grace Adelbert Sandhouse, Eugene Amandus Schwarz, and John Bernhard Smith. Sketches are organized first by place of employment and then by taxonomic group the entomologist studied.