James George Needham

James George Needham (born March 18, 1868 in Virginia , Illinois , † July 24, 1957 in Ithaca , New York ) was an American entomologist and limnologist . He produced over 350 publications.

He studied at Knox College and became a university lecturer after receiving his Masters. At the invitation of John Henry Comstock , who had become aware of him through his work Elementary Lessons in Zoology , Needham became a Goldwin Smith Scholar at Cornell University . The Comstock-Needham system is a fruit of two years of collaboration in the field of wing veining in insects . In 1898 followed nine years as a professor of biology at Lake Forest University . Then returned to Cornell University and was after Comstock's retirement in 1914, head of the entomology department at Cornell University. He held this office until his own retirement in 1935. In the following period of life he wrote over 150 publications.

literature

• Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 52, Number 3, May 1959, pp. 338-338 (1)