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SAMUEL EDWARD PEAL, who died at Moran, Sibsagur, Assam, on July 29, was born December 31, 1834. Originally an artist, he went to India in 1862 as a tea planter, and it was while so engaged in 1873 that he discovered that the tea blight was due to the ravages of a kind of Aphis, “the tea bug of Assam,” since named the Helopelta theovora, the life-history of which he worked out with suggestions for its extermination.
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Samuel Edward Peal. Nature 56, 421 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056421a0
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