Edward Oliver Vinegar

Edward Oliver Essig (born September 29, 1884 in Arcadia , Indiana , † November 23, 1964 in Lafayette , California ) was an American entomologist and historian of science .

Life

Essig and his family moved to Eureka , California in 1888 . He studied at Pomona College , where he turned to entomology and botany. He received his bachelor's degree in 1909 and his master's degree in 1912 . In 1910-11 he was the horticultural commissioner for Ventura County , and he became secretary of the California State Commission of Horticulture (which later became the Department of Agriculture). In 1914 he became an instructor of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley , 1916 Assistant Professor , 1921 Associate Professor and 1928 Professor. From 1943 to 1951 he was the faculty of Entomology and Parasitology. In 1954 he retired.

As an entomologist, in addition to his occupation with agricultural applications of entomology, he specialized in Schnabelkerfe (Hemiptera) (especially aphids ). He wrote textbooks on insects and a history of entomology. In Berkeley, the Vinegar Museum of Entomology is named after him.

Together with E. Gorton Linsley, he was the initiator of the California Insect Survey (CIS), launched in 1939. He also introduced the first courses in insect pathology in the United States. As a botanist, he was interested in fuchsias and he was a passionate gardener. In 1932 he was president of the American Fuchsia Society , which he co-founded, and was regional vice president of the American Iris Society . For the cultivation of Iris he received the Dykes Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society of Britain in 1936 .

He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the California Academy of Sciences , Fellow of the Entomological Society of America and its President in 1938, was President of the California Entomology Club in 1931, President of the American Association of Economic Entomologists in 1944, and from 1933 to 1936 and from 1941 to 1952 President of the Pacific Coast Entomological Society . In 1932 the French Ministry of Agriculture appointed him Chevalier du Merite Agricole .

Fonts

• Injurious and Beneficial Insects of California, Sacramento, State Commission of Horticulture 1913
• Aphididae of California, new species of Aphididae and notes from various parts of the state, but chiefly from the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, California, University of California Press 1917
• Insects of Western North America: a manual and textbook for students, Macmillan 1926
• A History of Entomology, Macmillan 1931, New York: Hafner 1965
• College Entomology, Macmillan 1942
• The aphid genus Periphyllus; a systematic, biological & ecological study, University of California Press 1952
• A check-list of Fuchsias, American Fuchsia Society 1936

literature

• AE Michelbacher, RF Smith: Edward Oliver Essig and the bibliography of EO Essig and insects named by him, Pan-Pacific Entomologist 41, 1965, pp. 207-258.

Web links

• Vinegar Museum of Entomology, Berkeley
• AE Michelbacher u. a .: Edward Oliver Essig, Entomology and Parasitology: Berkeley