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Kellogg, Vernon Lyman (United States
1867-1937)
entomology, science administration
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Vernon Kellogg was able to make substantial contributions to society at three rather distinct levels of engagement. First, he rose to eminence as an entomologist, becoming a leading authority on the systematics and evolution of lice (especially the Mallophaga and Anoplura) and the genetics of silkworms. He was also one of the first to promote a genetics-based view of Darwinism through his many journal publications and books; these efforts represented an important stepping-off point for the eventual emergence of the Neo-Darwinian synthesis. Lastly, Kellogg took part in a number of civil service-related initiatives related on the one hand to relief problems caused by World War I, and on the other to science administration: he was, for example, one of the founding organizers of the National Research Council and served as its secretary for over ten years until poor health caused him to step down. |
Life Chronology
--born in Emporia, Kansas, on 1 December 1867.
--1889: A.B., University of Kansas
--1890-1894: teaches entomology at Kansas
--1891-1892: graduate work at Cornell University
--1892: M.S., University of Kansas
--1893,1897: graduate work at the University
of Leipzig
--1894: made assistant professor of entomology,
Stanford University
--1896-1920: professor of entomology, Stanford
University
--1905: publishes his American
Insects
--1907: publishes his Evolution
and Animal Life, with D. S. Jordan
--1907: publishes his Darwinism
To-day
--1915: president, Entomological Society
of America
--1915-1921: war and relief administration service
for several U. S. government agencies
--1917: publishes his The
Food Problem, with A. E. Taylor
--1918: made chevalier of the Legion of Honor
of France
--1919: honorary LL.D., University of California
--1919-1931: secretary, National Research Council;
made secretary emeritus in 1932
--1922: honorary Sc.D., Oberlin College
--1922-1933: trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation
--1924: publishes his Evolution
--dies at Hartford, Connecticut, on 8 August
1937.
For Additional Information, See:
--Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences
(U.S.A.), Vol. 20 (1938): 243-257.
--American National Biography, Vol.
12 (1999).
--Dictionary of Scientific Biography,
Vol. 7 (1973).
--Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 88(5) (2002): 1045-1048.
--Journal of the History
of Biology, Vol. 32(3) (1999): 465-488.
--Annals of the Entomological Society of
America, Vol. 33(4) (1940): 599-607.
--Transactions of the
Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. 41 (1938):
46-47.
--American Entomologists (1971): 467-470.
--Vernon Kellogg, 1867-1937 (1939).
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