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Born March 19, 1865 • Milwaukee • Wisconsin
Died April 19, 1937 (aged 72) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study ant • insect • social insect
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Charles Valentine Riley
American entomologist
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
Johann Christian Fabricius, engraving by G.L. Lahde, 1805
Johann Christian Fabricius
Danish entomologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Charles Henry Turner.
Charles Henry Turner
American scientist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Anna Botsford Comstock.
Anna Botsford Comstock
American illustrator and writer
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
Leland Ossian Howard
American entomologist
Say, Thomas
Thomas Say
American naturalist
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
American zoologist
John Henry Comstock
American entomologist
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Marston Bates
American zoologist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Sir Vincent Wigglesworth
British entomologist
John Gould
British ornithologist

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