Following up on my last post, here are some old photos of famous entomologists we came across in our archive. First up is this old photo of Stuart Frost when we was working (I think?) for Orange County extension in New York:
I am a total bike nerd, and I find myself obsessing over Frost’s Pierce pneumatic safety bicycle. Maybe even more exciting, though, is the Indian motorcycle on the far left. it looks somewhat like a 1914 Two-speed Tourist Standard model. Maybe you know what it is? Zoom in on the original to see these vehicles in all their glory. These extension agents traveled in style.
Here’s Stuart Frost (second from left) at the dedication of the Frost Entomological Museum almost 60 years later, in October 1972:
It’s fun to see these old photos and connect a bit more with our institution’s history! Here are two more that might be of interest to entomologists outside of Penn State:
What a great photo of a legendary entomologist, R. E. Snodgrass! My predecessor, K. C. Kim (far right in photo from the Museum dedication) actually met Snodgrass in the 1950s, and I cherished K.C.’s stories about his visit to the Smithsonian. Still trying to figure out who Leach was – maybe an entomologist or a plant pathologist? There are a handful of Leaches from this time who may have interacted with Snodgrass. Here’s one more from the archive, of C. P. Alexander:
Charles P. Alexander was a contemporary and friend of Stuart Frost. Alexander is perhaps most famous for describing more than 11,000 species, mostly in Tipulidae, which is certainly extraordinary. I don’t know much about R. W. Coleman, but he apparently was interested in insect morphology.
These photos are just some of what we found in the archive. I suspect they were part of the Center for the History of Entomology, established at Penn State more than 40 years ago (now inactive). Still digging through this trove … more soon, hopefully.