Baker, C. F. (Charles Fuller) - Ball, M. V. (Michael Valentine) - Pennsylvania Photos and Documents
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Baker, C. F. (Charles Fuller) - Ball, M. V. (Michael Valentine)
Subject
Cercopidae
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Syrphidae
Treehoppers
Description
This folder primarily consists of correspondence written by Charles Fuller Baker and Elmer Darwin Ball. Baker, who went by C.F. Baker and Carl F. Baker, was an entomologist who taught at Pomona College’s Department of Biology and the State Agricultural College’s Department of Zoology and Entomology. Other positions he held were secretary of the Alabama Biological Survey at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and managing editor of the Pomona Journal of Entomology. His correspondence contains a list of Diptera stored at Pomona College that were collected throughout the Southwestern United States and Mexico in 1910. As part of his exchanges with the American Entomological Society (AES), Baker provided instructions on how to properly collect and package Hymenoptera and Hemiptera specimens. Baker also wrote multiple publications, with one being Invertebrata Pacifica, a journal that was issued in 12 parts and provided descriptions of different orders of Pacific invertebrates.
Elmer Darwin Ball or E.D. Ball was an entomologist, who served as the director of the Utah Agricultural College Experiment Station. He also served as the dean and director of the University of Arizona’s College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station, respectively. His research focused on Membracidae and Cercopoidea, commonly known as treehoppers and spittlebugs, respectively. In a letter to Henry Skinner of the AES, he shared his thoughts on a scathing article published by the Entomological News that condemned cases of entomologists not being properly credited for their publications. Baker, C. F. (Charles Fuller) (21) 1894-1911; Ball, E. D. (Elmer Darwin) (9) 1895-1932; Ball, M. V. (Michael Valentine) (1) 1927.
This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
