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Hodge, Walter Henricks (68)
Life
Dates:
14 October 1912–13 June 2013
Creator/Photographer:
Hodge, Walter Henricks
Date
Created/Published:
1940
Location: La Chaudiere, Dominica
Type:
black and white print
Size: 4 x 6
Copyright Restrictions:
unknown
Notes: Print was transferred from WHH Coll. #65, Box 9, ff 3 and accessioned into the HI Portrait Coll., April 2008. Notes on back of photo: while "skinny-dipping" WHH attempts to collect "craneflies" (Diptera tipulidae). WHH collected for friend and colleague, C. P. Alexander, of Univ. Mass. (Amherst). WHH collected "first craneflies to be collected on Dominica, in 1937-38, 14 spp. were made, of which 8 were described as new by C.P.A. - one named after WHH, 'Leptotarsus (Longurio) hodgei', 1939. (See Smiths. Contrib. to Zool. No. 45, 1970.