Clarence Preston Gillette

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Clarence Preston Gillette is a American Entomologiste , born the April 7th 1859 in Marple Cornes in the Comté of Ionia, Michigan and dead the January 4th 1941 with Fort Hakes (Colorado).

It makes its studies in Michigan State Agricultural College under the direction of Albert John Cook (1842-1916), it receives its Bachelor there off Sciences in 1886 and its Master off Sciences in 1887. It starts to work as attending the department of Zoologie of this establishment before leaving to the experimental station the Iowa State College where it remains of 1888 with 1891. It takes then charges the department with it with zoology, Entomologie and Physiologie of Colorado Agriculture College, now called Colorado State University.

Very good administrator, Gillette contributes, during forty years, with the growth of this establishment. In 1907, he becomes the first entomologist of State of the Colorado. In 1910, he becomes the director of the experimental station of Colorado. In 1916, Michigan State Agricultural College decrees a title of doctor to him are science on a purely honorary basis. During the few years before its departure with the retirement in 1932, it ensures the vice-presidency of Colorado College.

He works mainly on the taxonomy of the Cynipidae, the Cicadellidae and the Aphidae. Its talents of pedagogs make it seek like lecturer and author. It starts to lose the sight at the end of its life.

Source

Arnold Mallis (1971). American Entomologists . Rutgers University Close (New Brunswick): xvii + 549 p.

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