Moths, Myths, & Mosquitos: The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr.

PART I: PREPARATORY STAGES
Ch. 1: The Dyars and the Hannums: An Earlier Generation
Ch. 2: Dyar, Jr: Early Growth Stages and Development
Ch. 3: Collecting and Rearing Lepidoptera, and Dyar's Law: 1882-1891
Ch. 4: Long Collecting Trips and Sawflies: 1889-1897
Ch. 5: Postgraduate Education: Classification of Moths and Bacteria
Ch. 6: Genealogy of the Limacodidae and the Dyars
Ch. 7: Last Days in New York, L.O. Howard, and a Move to the U.S. National Museum

PART II: BEGINNING A NEW LIFE AT THE USNM AND IN WASHINGTON
Ch. 8: Life in the District of Columbia and Wellesca Pollock
Ch. 9: Building the National Collection, Dyar's "List of Lepidoptera," and the Entomological Society of Washington
Ch. 10: Battle of the Titans Smith and Dyar, and Their New Love - The "Skeets"
Ch. 11: Collecting Moths, Mosquitoes, and Travels: 1901-1909
Ch. 12: Literature Wars and Last Battles with Smith
Ch. 13: Advances and Conflicts in Professional Life as a Lepidopterist: 1907-1914

PART III: MRS. ALLEN, DIVORCES, AND THE AFTERMATH OF THE SCANDAL
Ch. 14: Wellesca's Baha'i Faith, New Wealth and Growing Concerns by Zella as Dyar's Life Begins to Unravel: 1906-1908
Ch. 15: Marriage Troubles
Ch. 16: The Separation: 1915
Ch. 17: Divorce Wranglings in Reno
Ch. 18: Divorces, Appeals, and Bigamy
Ch. 19: After the Scandal, Dismissal, and Friend Knab: 1917-1918

PART IV: THE FINAL DECADE: ATTEMPTS AT REINSTATEMENT
Ch. 20: The National Collection of Lepidoptera, its Workers, and Their Tiffs: 1920s
Ch. 21: Mosquitoes and Pursuit of Reinstatement
Ch. 22: Dyar and His Tunnels
Ch. 23: Personal Life and Baha'is in the 1920s
Ch. 24: Unity in the UNSM Lepidoptera Section and Acquiring the Barnes Collection
Ch. 25: Final Days: Trip West, Projects, and as Custodian
Ch. 26: Financial Collapse and Final Push for Reinstatement

Epilogue

ISBN: 9780190215255

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