William Dandridge Peck

William Dandridge Peck (May 8, 1763 Boston – October 8, 1822 Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a botanist,[1] and America ’s first native entomologist. He graduated Harvard College in 1782 and eventually became Harvard's Massachusetts Professor of Natural History.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1793.[3] Dandridge was also a founding member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1812,[4] and served as the society's first vice-president from 1812-1816.[5] His pioneering entomological article was "The Description and History of the Canker Worm", describing the species as Phalaena vernata, the spring cankerworm.[6]

He had a son, also named William Dandridge Peck (1812–1876), who was a physician and state legislator.[7][8][9]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Entry for Peck, William Dandridge". IPNI. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter P" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
  5. ↑ Dunbar, B. (1987). Members and Officers of the American Antiquarian Society. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society.
  6. ↑ Peck, W. D. (1795). The Description and History of the Canker-Worm. Massachusetts Magazine, Or, Monthly Museum Of Knowledge & Rational Entertainment, 7(9), 324-327.
  7. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=E56RAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA229
  8. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=N2FHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA43
  9. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=fFQZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA132
  10. ↑ IPNI.  W.Peck.

References

  • Anon. (1823). "Obituary Notice of Professor Peck". Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 10: 161–170.
  • Mallis, Arnold (1971). American Entomologists. Rutgers University Press. pp. 13–16. ISBN 0-8135-0686-7.
  • Sorenson, W. Conner (1995). Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880. University of Alabama Press. pp. 64–65.
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