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Moths, myths, and mosquitoes : the eccentric life of Harrison Dyar /
"On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.C., 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 Dy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [UK] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Studies in Early Modern European History MUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Maps; Part I. Preparatory Stages; 1. The Dyars and the Hannums: 1805-1875; The Hannums and President Lincoln; Marriage to Eleonora Hannum, Birth of Dyar, Jr., and Death of Dyar, Sr.; 2. Dyar, Jr.: Early Growth Stages and Development: 1875-1889; Life in Boston: School, Mother, and Future Wife; 3. Collecting and Rearing Lepidoptera, and Dyar's Law: 1882-1891; Collecting and the Catalogue; Early Mentors and Publications; Dyar's Law of Geometric Growth.
- 4. Long Collecting Trips and Sawflies: 1889-1897The Fifteen-Month Trip; Sawflies: A Nine-Year Interlude; 5. Postgraduate Education on Classification of Moths and Bacteria at Columbia: 1892-1895; Neumoegen and the Myth of the Name "Dyaria"; Reclassification of Lepidoptera; Talks on Lepidoptera Classification; Doctorate in Bacteriology; 6. Genealogy of the Limacodidae and the Dyars; The New York Slug Caterpillars; Dyar's Genealogy and Connection with the Hannums; 7. Last Days in New York, L.O. Howard, and a Move to the U.S. National Museum; L.O. Howard and Bringing Dyar to Washington.
- Part II. Beginning a New Life at the USNM and in Washington 8. Life in the District of Columbia and Wellesca Pollock; Stony Man and Wellesca Pollock; Zella Dyar, Her Mother, and Place in Washington Society; 9. Beginning a Career Building the National Collection of Lepidoptera; Dyar's "List" and Expanded Lepidoptera Interests; Dyar Joins the Entomological Society of Washington; 10. Battle of the Titans Smith and Dyar, and Their New Love-the "Skeets"; Battles between Dyar and Smith; Dyar and Smith's Rule of the Mosquitoes; 11. Collecting and Travels: 1898-1909.
- 12. Literature Wars and Last Battles with Smith: 1904-1911Battles with Mosquito Workers and the Mitchell Lawsuit; Last Battles with Smith; 13. Gains and Losses as a Professional Lepidopterist: 1907-1914; Paid Positions and Problems with Doctor Barnes; Part III. Scandal, Divorces, and Their Aftermath; 14. Wellesca's Bahá'í Faith, New Wealth, and Growing Concerns by Zella as Dyar's Life Begins to Unravel: 1906-1908; Involvement with Dyar in Washington Real Estate and Loans to George F. Pollock; Zella's Ultimatum and Return of the Stones from 'Abdu'l Bahá; Dyar's Decline in Collecting.
- 15. Marriage Troubles: 1909-191316. The Separation: 1914-1915; 17. Divorce Wrangling in Reno: 1915; "A Fool and His Friend"; 18. Divorces, Appeals, and Bigamy: 1916-1921; Dyar v. Dyar; Allen v. Allen; Wellesca's Fictional Marriage and Fictional Divorce; Bigamy: An Allen Marriage Rather Than a Dyar Divorce; Invention of an Alter Ego: Wilfred P. Allen; 19. After the Scandal, Dismissal, and Friend Knab: 1917-1918; Recovering from Breakdown in Connecticut; Dyar's Partnership with Frederick Knab; Part IV. The Final Decade: Attempts at Reinstatement.