Gordon Floyd Ferris
Encyclopedia
Gordon Floyd Ferris was an American entomologist. He was Professor of Biology, Entomology at Stanford University
from 1912 to 1958.
He founded and edited Microentomology.
His papers are held at the California Academy of Sciences
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Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
from 1912 to 1958.
He founded and edited Microentomology.
His papers are held at the California Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences is among the largest museums of natural history in the world. The academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research, with exhibits and education becoming significant endeavors of the museum during the twentieth...
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Awards
- 1925 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
- 1930-31 Molteno Institute in England
- 1948-49 Fulbright Fellow in China
Works
- "Contributions toward a Monograph of the Sucking Lice", 1920–1935
- "Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America"
- A catalogue and host list of the Anoplura, California Academy of Sciences, 1916
- Contributions to the Knowledge of the Coccoidea (Homoptera)., The University, 1919
- The Anoplura and Mallophaga of North American mammals, Issue 19, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Gordon Floyd Ferris, The University, 1915