William Dandridge Peck
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1763 – 1822
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Who was William Dandridge Peck?
William Dandridge Peck was a botanist, and America ’s first native entomologist. He was a professor at Harvard College. His pioneering entomological article was "The Description and History of the Canker Worm" Mass. Mag. Vol.7, describing the species as Phalaena vernata, the spring cankerworm.
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