Charles Howard Curran

Charles Howard Curran (20 March 1894 – 23 January 1972) was a Canadian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Charles Howard Curran
Born20 March 1894
Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Died23 January 1972(1972-01-23) (aged 77)
Leesburg, Florida, United States
Occupationentomologist

From 1922 to 1928 he worked as a specialist service in Diptera Entomology of Canada.[1] In 1928, he was hired by the American Museum of Natural History as Assistant Curator and, from 1947 until his retirement in 1960, as Curator of Insects and Spiders.[2][3] In 1931, he donated his collection to that institution: it has 10,000 specimens representing about 1,700 species including 400 types. He received in 1933 a Doctorate of Science at the University of Montreal with a thesis entitled The Families and Genera of North American Diptera. He was vice-president of the New York Entomological Society in 1936, president the following year.

References

Paul H. Arnaud Jr. et Thelma C. Owen (1981). Charles Howard Curran (1894-1972). Myia, 2 : 393 p.

  1. Cumming, Jeffrey M.; Sinclair, Bradley J.; Brooks, Scott E.; O'Hara, James E.; Skevington, Jeffrey H. (December 2011). "The history of dipterology at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, with special reference to the Manual of Nearctic Diptera". Canadian Entomologist. 143 (6): 539–577. doi:10.4039/n11-029.
  2. "Dr. Howard C. Curran". American Museum of Natural History.
  3. "The American Museum of Natural History. 78th Annual Report July 1946 through June 1947" (PDF). American Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
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