Charles Henry Tyler Townsend

Charles Henry Tyler Townsend (5 December 1863 Oberlin, Ohio – 17 March 1944 Itaquaquecetuba near São Paulo) was an American entomologist and biologist.

Biography

Townsend was born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1863. He studied at the Columbian University (now George Washington University) in Washington, D.C., at the medical school, then became assistant entomologist in the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1891 he became professor of entomology and zoology at the Agricultural College of New Mexico and the state experiment station. In 1909 he became permanent director of the entomological stations of the United States, and, in 1914, entomological assistant in the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture. From 1919 he was chief entomologist of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

See also

• European and American voyages of scientific exploration

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: 
• Charles Henry Tyler Townsend at tierdoku.com; last accessed March 20, 2011
• O’Hara, J. E. (2013). History of tachinid classification (Diptera, Tachinidae). ZooKeys, (316), 1–34. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.316.5132