Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes : The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr., H...

by Marc Epstein

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Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes : The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr., Hardcover by Epstein, Marc E., ISBN 0190215259, ISBN-13 9780190215255, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, ., revealing a mysterious underground labyrinth. In spite of wild speculations, the tunnel was not the work of German spies, but rather an aging, eccentric Smithsonian scientist named Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. While Dyar's covert tunneling habits may seem far-fetched, they were merely one of many oddities in Dyar's unbelievable life. For the first time, insect biosystemist Marc E. Epstein presents a complete account of Dyar's life story. Dyar, one of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, focused his entomological career on building natural classifications of various groups of insects. His revolutionary approach to taxonomy, which examined both larval and adult stages of insects, brought about major changes in the scientific community's understanding of natural relationships and insect systematics. He was also the father of what came to be known as Dyar's Law, a pragmatic method to standardize information on insect larval stages as they grow. Over the course of his illustrious career at the . National Museum, Smithsonian Institution from 1, Dyar named over 3,000 species, established the "List of North American Lepidoptera," an unrivaled catalog of moths and butterflies, and built one of

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2016
• ISBN: 9780190215255
• Condition: Fine

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