Leland Ossian Howard as a Young Man
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Date: c. 1890s
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7323, Box 6, Folder 49
Leland Ossian Howard (1857-1950), as a young man. Howard was Honorary Curator of Insects, United States National Museum, and Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 1894-1927. Howard became assistant to the new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist Charles Valentine Riley in 1878. The small office Howard took over in 1894 became the Bureau of Entomology in 1904. He organized it into divisions on the basis of crop groups. In his thirty-three years at the helm, the USDA budget for entomology grew a hundredfold, to $3 million annually. Howard became by far the largest employer of entomologists during a period of rapid growth and professionalization of that scientific discipline.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7323, Box 6, Folder 49
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
c. 1890s
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91-3720
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print