Reference Request
Record Unit 7123, Walsh, Benjamin Dann, 1808-1869, Benjamin Dann Walsh Field Notebooks, 1860-1869
Historical Note
Benjamin Dann Walsh (1808-1869) was born in Great Britain and educated at Oxford. Prepared for the Church, he instead became a writer and, after emigrating to the United States, a farmer, lumber dealer, and entomologist. Walsh became state entomologist of Illinois in 1867 and, with Charles Valentine Riley, founded the American Entomologist in 1868, a year before his death.