Edward Payson Van Duzee

Edward Payson Van Duzee was an American entomologist noted for his work on Hemiptera. As of 1885, he was a librarian at Grosvenor Library of Buffalo New York foryears, and then relocated to California in 1912 where he took a position at Scripps Institute in La Jolla. He was an instructor of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 191416, after which he was appointed curator of the entomology collection at the California Academy of Sciences from 1916 to 1940. At the time of his death, he had approximately 165 publications in addition to his noted Catalogue of the Hemiptera where he established 46 new genera and 906 species or subspecies. The following is drawn from a brief unpublished autobiographical sketch written by van Duzee in January, 1940 His father was Dr. William Sanford Van Duzee, natural historian and amateur astronomer . Shortly after Edward Paysons birth, the family left New York and returned to Buffalo where the family home housed a small natural

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