Charles Henry Tyler Townsend

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Charles Henry Tyler Townsend is a American Entomologiste , born the December 5th 1863 with Oberlin in Ohio and dead the March 17th 1944 with Itaquaquecetuba close to São Paulo.

He is the son of Nathan Haskin Townsend and Helen Jeannette born Tyler. He begins his studies at the university of Michigan and like studies of medicine in 1887 in Columbia College of South Carolina while working for the entomologist Charles Valentine Riley (1843-1895) as assistant. It Marie with Caroline W. Hess the September 10th 1889 of which he will have three children.

He is professor of Zoologie, Entomologie and Physiologie at the school of agriculture of the New Mexico to Las Cruces of 1891 with 1893. In 1893 and for one year, it exchanges its function with that of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) and he becomes the conservative of the Natural history museum of the Jamaica to Kingston. He works as entomologist on behalf of the ministry for the American agriculture of 1894 with 1898.

Townsend turns over to Las Cruces where he works in the experimental station of agriculture in 1898 - 1899. His wife dies in December 1901. He teaches with the Filipino 1904 with 1906. Of 1907 with 1909, he is expert of the disparate Bombyx or Spongieuse ( Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus, 1758)) near the American ministry for agriculture.

It obtains its Bachelor off Sciences in 1908 and its pH. D. in 1914 of the university George Washington. It remarie on June 1st 1908 with Margaret C. Dyer of which he will have four children. In 1909, he becomes the director of the experimental station of the Peru, function which he preserves four years. In 1913, it works within the research laboratory on the disparate bombyx of Melrose Highlands in the Massachusetts. It succeeds Daniel William Coquillet (1856-1911) like taxonomy|taxonomist in the national service of entomology.

In 1919, begins one ten years period when Townsend mainly will work in South America, with the Peru and the Brésil. In 1929, it founds a publisher in São Paulo.

He is the author of more than 1.000 articles including 522 in entomology, mainly on the Diptère S. He is the author of almost 3.000 new species and 1.491 new kinds.

Source

Paul H. Arnaud Jr. (1958), The entomological publications off Charles Henry Tyler Townsend (1863-1944): with lists off his new generic and specific names. Microentomology , 23 (1): 1-63.
Arnold Mallis (1971). American Entomologists . Rutgers University Close (New Brunswick): xvii + 549 p.

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