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Fighting the Insects, the Story of an Entomologist: Telling of the Life and Experiences of the Writer

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HOWARD ended fifty-three and a half years' service “under Uncle Sam” on June 30, 1931. All of this was passed in the Bureau of Entomology, at first as assistant under Comstock and later under Riley, then chief of the Bureau in 1894 and principal entomologist in 1927.

Fighting the Insects, the Story of an Entomologist: Telling of the Life and Experiences of the Writer.

By L. O. Howard. Pp. xvii + 333. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1933.) 12s. 6d. net.

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Fighting the Insects, the Story of an Entomologist: Telling of the Life and Experiences of the Writer. Nature 132, 331–332 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132331a0

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