Philip Powell Calvert
American entomologist
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Philip Powell Calvert's Degrees
- Bachelors Entomology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Entomology University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Entomology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Powell Calvert was an American entomologist, recognised as a leading authority on the Odonata . A long-term teacher and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he was President of the American Entomological Society 1900-15. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1918. His 1893 publication Catalogue of the Odonata of the Vicinity of Philadelphia, with an Introduction to the Study of this Group served as a model for regional insect study and was the first major attempt at a guide to the order. Calvert went on to publish over 300 notes and articles on the Odonata. He was married to botanist Amelia Smith Calvert.
Philip Powell Calvert's Published Works
Published Works
- Contributions to a knowledge of the Odonata of the Neotropical region, exclusive of Mexico and Central America (1909) (74)
- The neotropical species of the "subgenus Aeschna" sense Selysii 1883 (Odonata) (1956) (17)
- Odonata (Dragonflies) of Kartabo, Barticr District, British Guiana (1948) (13)
- The fossil Odonate Phenacolestes, with a discussion of the venation of the legion Podagrion Selys (13)
- Studies on Costa Rican Odonata. VIII. A new genus allied to Cora (10)
- The Odonata of New York State (7)
- Odonata (Dragonflies) from the Indian Ocean, and from Kashmir, collected by Dr. W.L. Abbott (5)
- Notes on some North American Odonata with descriptions of three new species (5)
- Methods for Expressing the Associations of Different Species (1922) (5)
- Postage on Natural History Specimens. (1894) (4)
- Relations of a Late Autumnal Dragonfly (Odonata) to Temperature (1926) (3)
- Neuropterous Insects Collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Northeastern Africa (3)
- Historia de la Influencia Extranjera en el desenvolvimiento Educacional y Cientifico de Costa Rica (1923) (3)
- EZRA TOWNSEND CRESSON. (1926) (2)
- The Odonate genus Ortholestes (2)
- New taxonomic entities in Neotropical Aeshnas lOdonatac Aeshnidaer II (1952) (2)
- The Geographical Distribution of Insects and the Age and Area Hypothesis of Dr. J. C. Willis (1923) (2)
- AN APPEAL FROM BELGIUM (1919) (2)
- The differentials of three North American species of Libellula (2)
- The dimorphism or dichromatism of the females of Ischnura verticalis (1915) (1)
- The Tendency to Social Life (1927) (1)
- A BUST OF THE LATE PROFESSOR E. D. COPE. (1920) (1)
- THE ODONATA OF MEXICO. (1908) (1)
- Odonata Anisoptera from Guatemala, collected by Messrs. William Schaus and John T. Barnes (1)
- The Costa Rican species of Epigomphus and their mutual mating adaptations (Odonata) (1)
- The true male of Nehalennia integricollis and N. pallidula, n. sp. (Odon.) (1)
- The species of Nehalennia (Odonata), including one from the eastern United States hitherto undescribed (1)
- The Postal Transmission of Natural History Specimens (1894) (1)
- THE PRESENT STATE OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ODONATA OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA. (1908) (1)
- Studies on Costa Rican Odonata. IV. Erpetogomphus in Costa Rica, with descriptions of a new species having complex structural mating adaptations (1)
- NOTES ON NOVA SCOTIAN DRAGONFLIES (1894) (1)
- The Odonate collections of the California Academy of Sciences from Baja California and Tepic, Mexico, of 1889-1894 (1947) (1)
- East African Odonata, collected by Doctor W. L. Abbott (0)
- An Entomologist in Costa Rica. (1913) (0)
- REDUCED RATES OF POSTAGE ON SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE INTERNATIONAL MAILS--AN APPEAL. (1897) (0)
- The Entomological Society of America. Organized 1906. (1914) (0)
- Catalogues of Current Scientific Literature (1941) (0)
- The Odonata of Mexico (1908) (0)
- Odonata Anisoptera from Guatemalac collected by Messrsp William Schaus and John Tp Barnes (0)
- THE LARVAL DEVELOPMENT OF DRAGONFLIES OF THE GENUS AESHNA. (1938) (0)
- BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS. (1937) (0)
- Notes on the Odonata from east Africa, collected by the Chanler Expedition (0)
- Robert M'Lachlan (0)
- On Hagenius brevistylus (0)
- CATALOGUES OF CURRENT SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. (1941) (0)
- Resolutions: On the Death of Thomas H. Montgomery (1913) (0)
- Professor Herbert Osborn (1930) (0)
- Biological Abstracts (1927) (0)
- Additions to the Odonata of New York State (0)
- Insecta Neuroptera Odonata Supplement (0)
- A Genealogic Study of Dragon-fly Wing Venation. By James G. Needham, of Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, xxvi, pp. 703-764, pis. xxxi-liv, 44 text figs. Washington, 1903. (0)
- Aeshna (Coryphaeschna) Luteipennis and Its Subspecies (Odonata: Aeshnidae) (1941) (0)
- Eruptions of the Costa Rican Volcano Irazú in 1917-18 (0)
- Insects and Human Mortality in War. (0)
- A year of Costa Rican natural history, by Amelia Smith Calvert ... and Philip Powell Calvert ... with maps and illustrations. (0)
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