William Henry Anderson (November 21, 1908 – November 13, 1997) was an American entomologist.

Biography

Anderson was born in 1908. He was educated at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

, in which he also got his Ph.D. in 1936. During the same year he became a member of the

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, his job was there as a field assistant, and at the same time he worked with the

Bureau of Entomology The Bureau of Entomology was a unit within the Federal government of the United States from 1894 to 1934. It developed from a section of the Department of Agriculture which had been working on entomological researches and allied issues relating to ...

and Plant Quarantine. In 1937 he received a promotion as an assistant entomologist, and in 1939 he became the

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

himself. He was appointed as Chief of Insect Identification and Parasite Introduction Research Branch in 1960, which position he kept till he retired in 1967. He was a specialist on the

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

and its

larvae A larva (; plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. The ...

References

American entomologists 1908 births 1997 deaths People from Chesterfield, Massachusetts University of Maryland, College Park alumni 20th-century American zoologists {{US-entomologist-stub