Ezra Townsend Cresson

Ezra Townsend Cresson

Ezra Townsend Cresson, also Ezra Townsend senior (18 June 1838, Byberry - 19 April 1926, Swarthmore) was an American entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera. He wrote "Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico" Philadelphia: Paul C. Stockhausen, Entomological printer (1887) and many other works. His son Ezra Townsend, Jr. (1876-1948) was also an entomologist but a specialist in Diptera.

References

*Essig, E. O. 1931 "A History of Entomology". -New York, Macmillan Company.
*Mallis, A. 1971 "American Entomologists". Rutgers Univ. Press New Brunswick 343-348, Portr.
*Osborn, H. 1937 "Fragments of Entomological History Including Some Personal Recollections of Men and Events." Columbus, Ohio, Published by the Author.
*Osborn, H. 1952 "A Brief History of Entomology Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with over Five Hundred Portraits".

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