Vernon Kellogg (1867 – 1937) was an American entomologist (bug guy)
Vernon Lyman Kellogg was an American entomologist, evolutionary biologist, and science administrator. He established the Department of Zoology at Stanford University in 1894, and served as the first permanent secretary of the National Research Council in Washington, DC.
Francis Huntington Snow (June 29, 1840 – September 21, 1908) was an American professor and chancellor of the University of Kansas (KU), and he became prominent through the discovery of a fungus fatal to chinch bugs and its propagation and distribution. Snow started the first scientific publication of the university, The Observer of Nature, and for some years he was editor of the scientific journal Psyche. He made frequent contributions to the university bulletins and reports and to the Kansas Academy of Science, of which he was a founder and president. “He served two seasons with the Christian commission at the front of the Union army, being present at Lee’s surrender.” [the hell?]
Frank W. Blackmar, ed. (1912). “Snow, Francis Huntington”. Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc … Vol. II. Chicago: Standard Pub Co. pp. 710–711. Archived from the original on 2006-10-10. Retrieved 2006-11-16.
John Henry Comstock (February 24, 1849 – March 20, 1931) was an eminent researcher in entomology and arachnology and a leading educator. His work provided the basis for classification of butterflies, moths, and scale insects. Between 1879 and 1881 he became the chief Entomologist of the USDA in Washington, D.C. In 1882 Comstock returned to Cornell as professor of Entomology and Invertebrate Zoology. He also did work in insect morphology and is best known as the co-proposer of the Comstock-Needham system with James George Needham. The Comstock–Needham system is a naming system for insect wing veins, devised by John Comstock and George Needham in 1898. It was an important step in showing the homology of all insect wings. This system was based on Needham’s pretracheation theory that was later discredited by Frederic Charles Fraser in 1938. The Entomological Society of America gives out an award in each of its six branches to the outstanding graduate student of the year. This award is the John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Award.
Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart (7 October 1822 – 22 February 1898) was a German zoologist born in Helmstedt. He was a nephew to naturalistFriedrich Sigismund Leuckart (1794–1843). Leuckart is remembered for his work in parasitology, particularly research regarding tapeworm and trichinosis. He was the first to prove that Taenia saginata occurs only in cattle (and humans), and Taenia solium occurs only in swine (and humans). His study of Trichina helped support Rudolf Virchow‘s campaign to create meat inspection laws in Germany. With Virchow and Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825–1898), he was the first to document the life cycle of the parasite Trichinella spiralis in swine and humans. He, and independently Algernon Thomas, experimentally discovered the life-cycle of the sheep liver fluke in 1881–1883. Today the “Rudolf-Leuckart-Medaille” is an annual award given for research in parasitology by the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Parasitologie (German Society of Parasitology). Leuckart is credited with splitting George Cuvier‘s Radiata into two phyla: Coelenterata and Echinodermata. As a scientist, his provided excellent descriptions of morphologic details giving credence to the idea that zoological evolution can be learned through its anatomical changes. Between 1877 and 1892, he developed a series of zoological wall charts that have been used worldwide as teaching aids. In the field of entomology, he conducted investigations into the micropyle and fertilization of insect eggs, the reproduction and development involving members of Pupipara, parthenogenesis among insects, and studies on the anatomy and life history of the honeybee. A species of Australian lizard, Anomalopus leuckarti, is named in his honor. A quote attributed to Rudolf Leuckart: It is not possible for man, as a thinking being, to close his mind to the knowledge that he is ruled by the same power as is the animal world. Like the despised worm he lives in dependence upon external commands, and like the worm he perishes, even when he has shaken the world through the power of his ideas — Rudolf Leuckart. His son, Carl Louis Rudolf Alexander Leuckart (23 June 1854 – 24 July 1889) was a German chemist who discovered the Leuckart reaction and Leuckart thiophenol reaction.
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Cheng, Thomas C. (1973). General Parasitology. Academic Press. pp. 125–128. ISBN978-0-12-170750-7.
Psyche. Vol. 8. Cambridge Entomological Club. 1899. pp. 214–.
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. (“Leuckart”, p. 156).
Stuttgart-Georg Thieme Verlag (2012). “an article dedicated to Rudolf Leuckart for his thiol studies”. Synlett. 23 (13): 1893–1896. doi:10.1055/s-0032-1316557.
Stuttgart-Georg Thieme Verlag (2012). “an article dedicated to Rudolf Leuckart for his thiol studies”. Synlett. 23 (13): 1893–1896. doi:10.1055/s-0032-1316557.
Alexander, Elliot; Ruth Bowman Wildman (1948). “Studies on the Mechanism of the Leuckart Reaction”. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 70 (3): 1187–1189. doi:10.1021/ja01183a091. PMID18909189.
Pollard, C.B.; David C. Young (1951). “The Mechanism of the Leuckart Reaction”. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 16 (5): 661–672. doi:10.1021/jo01145a001.
Crossley, Frank S.; Maurice L. Moore (1944). “Studies on the Leuckart Reaction”. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 9 (6): 529–536. doi:10.1021/jo01188a006.
Webers, Vincent J.; William F. Bruce (1948). “The Leuckart Reaction: A study of the Mechanism”. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 70 (4): 1422–1424. doi:10.1021/ja01184a038. PMID18915755.
A notable example of the Leuckart reaction is its use in the synthesis of tetrahydro-1,4 benzodiazepin-5-one, a molecule that is part of the benzodiazepine family. Many compounds in this family of molecules are central nervous system suppressants and are associated with therapeutic uses and a variety of medications, such as antibiotics, antiulcer, and anti-HIV agents. Researchers were able to synthesize tetrahydro-1,4-benzodiazepin-5-ones with excellent yields and purities by utilizing the Leuckart Reaction. Researchers performed the reaction via solid-phase synthesis and used formic acid as the reducing agent.
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Merck Index 14th Ed.
Back to Vernon Kellogg
From 1894 to 1920, Kellogg was professor of entomology at Stanford University, where he established the Department of Zoology. Kellogg specialized in insect taxonomy and economic entomology. Herbert Hoover was among his students, and Florence E. Bemis worked in his lab.
He was one of the professors to build a summer home on what became known as “Professors’ Row” in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in 1904. He was good friends with Stanford University president David Starr Jordan who also lived there. In 1908, Kellogg married Charlotte Hoffman and the two welcomed their only child, Jean Kellogg Dickie, in 1910.
McClung, C.E. (1938). Biographical Memoir of Vernon Lyman Kellogg. National Academy of Sciences. p. 252.
Kellogg was a conservationist, an officer of the Sierra Club, and enjoyed outdoor recreation. In addition to his publications on lice, Kellogg wrote two books. Darwinism ToDay (1907) was a summary of all the major evolutionary theories and a general defense of Darwinism. The second book is titled Headquarters Nights (1918).
His academic career was interrupted by two years (1915 and 1916) spent in Brussels as director of Hoover’s humanitarianAmerican Commission for Relief in Belgium. Initially a pacifist, Kellogg dined with the officers of the German Supreme Command. He became shocked by the grotesque Social Darwinist motivation for the German war machine, “the creed of survival of the fittest based on violent and fatal competitive struggle is the Gospel of the German intellectuals.” Kellogg decided that the ideas could be beaten only by force and, using his connections with America’s political elite, began to campaign for American intervention in the war. He published an account of his conversations in the book Headquarters Nights.
Headquarters nights; a record of conversations and experiences at the headquarters of the German army in France and Belgium (Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, v. 1917)
After the war, he served as the first permanent secretary of the National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, DC. He served on the board of trustees for Science Service, (now known as Society for Science & the Public), from 1921 to 1933. At his retirement he became Secretary Emeritus.
With J.H. Comstock, The elements of insect anatomy; an outline for the use of students in the entomological laboratories of Cornell University and Leland Stanford Junior University (Comstock Pub. Co., Ithaca, 1895).
With J.H. Comstock, The elements of insect anatomy (Comstock Pub. Co., Ithaca, 1899).
A list of the biting lice (Mallophaga) taken from birds and mammals of North America (Gov’t print. off., Washington, 1899).
With Oliver Peebles Jenkins (1850-1935), Lessons in nature study (The Whitaker & Ray Company, San Francisco, 1900).
First lessons in zoology (H. Holt and Company, New York, 1903).
With D.S. Jordan, Evolution and animal life; an elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and evolution of animals (D. Appleton and company, New York, 1907).
Darwinism to-day; a discussion of present-day scientific criticism of the Darwinian selection theories, together with a brief account of the principal other proposed auxiliary and alternative theories of species-forming (H. Holt and Company, New York, 1907).[8][9]
Insect stories (D. Appleton and company, New York & London, 1908, reedited in 1923).
With D.S. Jordan, The scientific aspects of Luther Burbank’s work (A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1909).
American insects (H. Holt and Company, New York, 1905, reedited in 1908).
Headquarters nights; a record of conversations and experiences at the headquarters of the German army in France and Belgium (The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, v. 1917).
The Food Problem with Alonzo Engelbert Taylor (1871-1949), (The Macmillan company, New York, 1917).
Fighting starvation in Belgium (Page & company, New York, Doubleday, 1918).
Germany in the War and After, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1919.
Herbert Hoover, the man and his work (D. Appleton and company, New York et Londres 1920).
With des chansons de Charlotte Kellogg, Nuova : or, The new bee, a story for children of five to fifty (Houghton Mifflin, Boston et New York, v. 1920).
THE SAN JOSE SCALE IN JAPAN.Kellogg VL. Science. 1901 Mar 8;13(323):383-5. doi: 10.1126/science.13.323.383.PMID: 17801119 No abstract available.5CiteShare
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY. Branner JC, Jenkins OP, Anderson MB, Stillman JM, Sanford F, Marx CD, Gilbert CH, Campbell DH, Flügel E, Wing CB, Angell F, Dudley WR, Murray AT, Goebel J, Abbott N, Matzke JE, Richardson GM, Griffin JO, Miller W, Green RL, Elliott OL, Kellogg VL, Lenox LR, Newcomer AG, Clark AB, McFarland FM, Copeland CA, Price GC, Fish JC, Nash HC, Cubberley EP, Marx GH, Clark GA, Hall JP, Johnston OM, Peirce GJ, Stearns HD.Science. 1901 May 10;13(332):751. doi: 10.1126/science.13.332.751.PMID: 17830166 No abstract available.6CiteShare
PHYSIOLOGICAL REGENERATION IN INSECTS.Kellogg VL. Science. 1906 Jan 26;23(578):149-52. doi: 10.1126/science.23.578.149.PMID: 17778991 No abstract available.7CiteShare
VARIATION IN PARTHENOGENETIC INSECTS.Kellogg VL. Science. 1906 Nov 30;24(622):695-9. doi: 10.1126/science.24.622.695-a.PMID: 17798248 No abstract available.8CiteShare
IS THERE DETERMINATE VARIATION?Kellogg VL. Science. 1906 Nov 16;24(620):621-8. doi: 10.1126/science.24.620.621.PMID: 17771164 No abstract available.9CiteShare
YELLOW FEVER AND THE PANAMA CANAL.Kellogg VL. Science. 1906 Jan 19;23(577):114. doi: 10.1126/science.23.577.114.PMID: 17847412 No abstract available.
A NEW ARTEMIA AND ITS LIFE CONDITIONS.Kellogg VL. Science. 1906 Nov 9;24(619):594-6. doi: 10.1126/science.24.619.594-b.PMID: 17793033 No abstract available.12CiteShare
A NOTE ON ASSORTATIVE MATING.Kellogg VL. Science. 1906 Nov 23;24(621):665-6. doi: 10.1126/science.24.621.665.PMID: 17783209 No abstract available.13CiteShare
METAGENESIS IN INSECTS.Kellogg VL. Science. 1907 Dec 20;26(677):875-6. doi: 10.1126/science.26.677.875-b.PMID: 17789421 No abstract available.14CiteShare
EVOLUTION IN RHYME .Kellogg VL. Science. 1908 May 15;27(698):791-2. doi: 10.1126/science.27.698.791.PMID: 17791052 No abstract available.15CiteShare
THE NEWEST ANCIENT MAN.Kellogg VL. Science. 1909 Jan 1;29(731):35. doi: 10.1126/science.29.731.35.PMID: 17756911 No abstract available.16CiteShare
THE MECHANICS OF BIOLOGY.Kellogg VL. Science. 1909 Nov 5;30(775):649-50. doi: 10.1126/science.30.775.649.PMID: 17807665 No abstract available.17CiteShare
IS THERE DETERMINATE VARIATION?Kellogg VL. Science. 1910 Dec 9;32(832):843-6. doi: 10.1126/science.32.832.843.PMID: 17750511 No abstract available.19CiteShare
AN EXPERIMENT IN DOUBLE MATING.Kellogg VL. Science. 1911 May 19;33(855):783-9. doi: 10.1126/science.33.855.783.PMID: 17817908 No abstract available.20CiteShare
SAMUEL BUTLER AND BIOLOGICAL MEMORY.Kellogg VL. Science. 1912 May 17;35(907):769-71. doi: 10.1126/science.35.907.769.PMID: 17792416 No abstract available. AMA APA MLA NLM
UNIVERSITY LIFE IN IDAHO.Kellogg VL. Science. 1913 May 16;37(959):751. doi: 10.1126/science.37.959.751.PMID: 17777492 No abstract available.23CiteShare
THE DOCOPHORI OF THE OWLS.Kellogg VL. Science. 1913 Jan 24;37(943):154-5. doi: 10.1126/science.37.943.154.PMID: 17794523 No abstract available.24CiteShare
BEETLES BECOMING PARASITES.Kellogg VL. Science. 1914 Mar 6;39(1001):360-1. doi: 10.1126/science.39.1001.360.PMID: 17810129 No abstract available.25CiteShare
THE UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH. Kellogg V. Science. 1921 Jul 8;54(1384):19-23. doi: 10.1126/science.54.1384.19.PMID: 17835940 No abstract available.26CiteShare
RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC MEN. Kellogg V. Science. 1921 Jun 17;53(1381):557. doi: 10.1126/science.53.1381.557.PMID: 17759449 No abstract available.28CiteShare
RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. Kellogg V .Science. 1922 Jul 14;56(1437):45. doi: 10.1126/science.56.1437.45-a.PMID: 17731114 No abstract available.29CiteShare
RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC AID. Kellogg V. Science. 1922 Dec 22;56(1460):717. doi: 10.1126/science.56.1460.717.PMID: 17831218 No abstract available.30CiteShare
EMIL FISCHER AFTER THE WAR. Kellogg V. Science. 1919 Oct 10;50(1293):346-7. doi: 10.1126/science.50.1293.346.PMID: 17743779 No abstract available.33CiteShare
AN ANNOUNCEMENT IN SCIENCE. Kellogg V. Science. 1922 Dec 8;56(1458):664. doi: 10.1126/science.56.1458.664-a.PMID: 17838503 No abstract available.34CiteShare
AID TO RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS. Kellogg V, Howard LO, White D, Zon R. Science. 1922 Nov 3;56(1453):504-5. doi: 10.1126/science.56.1453.504.PMID: 17793169 No abstract available.35CiteShare
AN APPEAL. Kellogg V. Science. 1922 Dec 1;56(1457):634. doi: 10.1126/science.56.1457.634-a.PMID: 17744844 No abstract available.37CiteShare
SALARIES OF PROFESSORS IN POLAND. Kellogg V. Science. 1922 Jun 30;55(1435):704. doi: 10.1126/science.55.1435.704-a.PMID: 17751449 No abstract available.38CiteShare
THE CONCILIUM BIBLIOGRAPHICUM. Kellogg V. Science. 1922 Jan 6;55(1410):11-2. doi: 10.1126/science.55.1410.11.PMID: 17832685 No abstract available.42CiteShare
WORK OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Kellogg V. Science. 1923 Nov 2;58(1505):337-41. doi: 10.1126/science.58.1505.337.PMID: 17746674 No abstract available.44CiteShare
WORK OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. Kellogg V. Science. 1923 Nov 9;58(1506):362-6. doi: 10.1126/science.58.1506.362.PMID: 17837327 No abstract available.45CiteShare
IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Kellogg V. Science. 1924 May 2;59(1531):399-400. doi: 10.1126/science.59.1531.399-a.PMID: 17774711 No abstract available.47CiteShare
ISOLATION OR COOPERATION IN RESEARCH. Kellogg V. Science. 1926 Feb 26;63(1626):215-8. doi: 10.1126/science.63.1626.215.PMID: 17833825 No abstract available.48CiteShare
BARRO COLORADO ISLAND BIOLOGICAL STATION. Kellogg V. Science. 1926 May 14;63(1637):491-3. doi: 10.1126/science.63.1637.491.PMID: 17773658 No abstract available.49CiteShare
INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL TABLES. Kellogg V. Science. 1927 Mar 18;65(1681):273. doi: 10.1126/science.65.1681.273.PMID: 17759798 No abstract available.52CiteShare
THE EDWARD CURTIS FRANKLIN FELLOWSHIP. Kellogg V. Science. 1927 Jan 21;65(1673):65-6. doi: 10.1126/science.65.1673.65.PMID: 17788371 No abstract available.53CiteShare
HERBERT HOOVER AND SCIENCE. Kellogg V. Science. 1931 Feb 20;73(1886):197-9. doi: 10.1126/science.73.1886.197.PMID: 17729815 No abstract available.54CiteShare
BARRO COLORADO ISLAND BIOLOGICAL STATION. Kellogg V. Science. 1929 May 31;69(1796):577. doi: 10.1126/science.69.1796.577.PMID: 17758434 No abstract available.57CiteShare
McClung, C.E. (1938). Biographical Memoir of Vernon Lyman Kellogg. National Academy of Sciences. p. 252.
Headquarters nights; a record of conversations and experiences at the headquarters of the German army in France and Belgium (Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, v. 1917)
Buckingham, James Silk; Sterling, John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon Horace; Murry, John Middleton (March 28, 1908). “Review: Darwinism To-day by Prof. V. L. Kellogg”. The Athenaeum (4196): 388.
Ronald L. Numbers (1995). Antievolutionism Before World War I. Taylor & Francis. pp.9-10. ISBN9780815318026
Doane, Rennie Wilbur (1940). “Vernon Lyman Kellogg”. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 33 (4): 599–607. doi:10.1093/aesa/33.4.599.
Largent, Mark A. (2000). These are Times of Scientific Ideals: Vernon Lyman Kellogg and Scientific Activism, 1890-1930 (dissertation). University of Minnesota.
Further reading and external links about the people he studied under
Triplehorn, Charles A.; Johnson Norman F. (2005). Borror and DeLong’s introduction to the study of insects (7th ed.). Thomson Brooks/Cole. ISBN0-03-096835-6.
Beiträge zur Kenntnis wirbelloser Tiere, (Contributions to the knowledge of invertebrate animals) with Heinrich Frey; Braunschweig, 1847.
Über die Morphologie und Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der wirbellosen Tiere, (On the morphology and relationships of invertebrate animals) Braunschweig, 1848
Zur Morphologie und Anatomie der Geschlechtsorgane, (Morphology and anatomy of reproductive organs) Braunschweig, 1848.
Beiträge zur Lehre der Befruchtung, (Contributions to the theory of fertilization) Göttinger Nachrichten, 1849.
Über den Polymorphismus der Individuen oder die Erscheinungen der Arbeitsteilung in der Natur, (On polymorphism of individuals or the phenomena of division of labor in nature), Gießen, 1851.
Vergleichende Anatomie und Physiologie, (Comparative Anatomy and Physiology) Leuckart & Bergmann, Stuttgart, 1852.
Die Fortpflanzung und Entwicklung der Pupiparen, (The reproduction and development of Pupipara) Halle, 1857.
Zur Kenntnis des Generationswechsels und der Parthenogenesis bei den Insekten, (Change in generations and parthenogenesis in insects) Frankfurt, 1858.
Untersuchungen über Trichina spiralis, (Studies on Trichina spiralis) Leipzig, 1860, second edition- 1866.
Die Blasenwürmer und ihre Entwicklung, (Bladder-worms and their development) Gießen, 1856.
Die Parasiten des Menschen und die von ihnen herrührenden Krankheiten, (Parasites of man and the diseases arising from them), Leipzig, 1863–76, 2 volumes; second edition- 1879 ff.
Die Entwicklunggeschichte des Leberegels (Distonum hepaticum, dt.), (Developmental history of the liver fluke (Distonum hepatic dt.) in: Zoologischer Anzeiger 4, 1881.
Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Baes und der Lebensgeschichte der Nematoden, (New contributions to the knowledge of Baes and the life history of nematodes, 1887.