entomology

"Maurice Tanquary taught entomology for several years at Kansas State Agricultural College before joining the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1919 as chief of the division of entomology. Tanquary was interested in apiculture and resigned in 1923 to enter professional beekeeping in North Dakota. He later joined the University of Minnesota in apiculture and remained there until 1944. " entohistory.tamu.edu/hallofhonor/hallofhonor.html

Photo is dated in reverse, June 27, 1913, just before Professor Tanquary became a member of the ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition, an arctic exploring party. It took him 100 days to make a 1300-mile sledge trip out of the frozen north. Here is his report in the New York Times: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9402E...

Thanks for the information and for noting the date on the negative. We can add that to the description when we update it.

I started an entry for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Cole_Tanquary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_Land_Expedition

Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915), French entomologist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Henri_Fabre

this appears to be taken about a day before his death... he was mounted with a stick pin through his gut and is preserved in a museum drawer....

A biography of Fabre, 'Fabre, Poet of Science' was reviewed in the NYT of September 21, 1913. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E7D6113BE633A... And a July 1912 article query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B03E6DD1630E233A... has the headline "HENRI FABRE DYING OF HUNGER IN FRANCE; Scientist Whom Darwin Regarded as One of World's Greatest Men Is 88 Years Old."

Turned out............DDT was about as safe as Agent Orange.