John Lawrence LeConte
Tampilan
John Lawrence LeConte | |
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Lahir | New York, New York | 13 Mei 1825
Meninggal | 15 November 1883 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | (umur 58)
Kebangsaan | Amerika Serikat |
Almamater | Mount St. Mary's University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
Karier ilmiah | |
Bidang | |
Institusi | American Philosophical Society American Association for the Advancement of Science National Academy of Sciences |
Tanda tangan | |
John Lawrence LeConte (13 Mei 1825 – 15 November 1883) adalah seorang pakar etnomologi Amerika Serikat pada abad ke-19, yang bertanggung jawab atas penamaan dan pendeskripsian separuh taksa serangga yang diketahui di Amerika serikat pada masa hidupnya,[1] yang meliputi sekitar 5.000 spesies kumbang. Ia diakui sebagai otoritas terdepan pada kumbang-kumbang Amerika Utara pada masa hidupnya, dan dijuluki sebagai "bapak kajian kumbang Amerika."[2]
Catatan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Bird Name Biographies Diarsipkan 2001-05-20 di Wayback Machine. - URL retrieved September 14, 2006
- ^ Evans, Arthur V., and James N. Hogue. 2004. Chapter 1: A Brief History of Beetle Study in California. Introduction to California Beetles. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24034-0, as excerpted at [1] Diarsipkan 2006-09-04 di Wayback Machine. - URL retrieved September 16, 2006
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Dow, R. P. (1914). "The Greatest Coleopterist". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 22 (3): 185–191. JSTOR 25003617.
- Essig, E. O. (1931). A History of Entomology. MacMillan Company. hlm. 680–685.
- Horn, George H. (1883). "John Lawrence LeConte". Science. 2 (46): 783–786. Bibcode:1883Sci.....2..783H. doi:10.1126/science.ns-2.46.783. PMID 17739760.
- Mallis, Arnold (1971). American Entomologists. Rutgers University Press. hlm. 242–248.
- Riley, Charles Valentine (1883). "Tribute to the Memory of John Lawrence LeConte". Psyche. 4 (115–116): 107–110. doi:10.1155/1883/37519 .
- Scudder, Samuel H. (1886). "Memoir of John Lawrence LeConte 1825-1883". Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences: 261–293.
- Sorensen, W. Conner (1995). Brethren of the Net, American Entomology, 1840-1880. University of Alabama Press.
- "John Lawrence LeConte" (1936). Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons.
- "John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers, 1812-1897". American Philosophical Society Library.
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- Samuel Henshaw (1878) The entomological writings of John L. Leconte.:Dimmock's special bibliography. no. 1 Cambridge, Massachusetts, The editor (George Dimmock), 1878.