Edward Oliver Essig [SEP] date of death
Edward Oliver Essig
Edward Oliver Essig (29 September 1884 Arcadia, Indiana – 23 November 1964, Lafayette, California) was an American entomologist who specialized in the Hemiptera.
Essig was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.He wrote "Injurious and Beneficial Insects of California" (1913), "Insects of Western North America" (1926), "A History of Entomology" (1931), "College Entomology" (1942) and several hundred scientific works on Hemiptera.The Essig Museum of
Essig Museum of Entomology
The Essig Museum of Entomology is a research museum dedicated to terrestrial arthropods, located at the University of California at Berkeley. It contains perhaps the world's largest collection of California insects and has been ranked among the top university-based collections in North America. The museum is open to the public twice per year (Cal Day and Darwin Day).
The museum's origins date back to the 1880s, with the university's earliest teaching collection. After entomologist Edward Oliver Essig joined the faculty in