Henry Guernsey Hubbard (1850-1899) was an American

United States

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 horticulturist, botanist, and entomologist.

Henry Hubbard, first son of noted Michigan geologist, explorer and surveyor, Bela Hubbard

Bela Hubbard

Bela Hubbard was a 19th century naturalist, geologist, writer, surveyor, explorer and civic leader of early Detroit, Michigan. Hubbard is noted as one of the pioneer geologists of Michigan starting with expeditions undertaken, while in his twenties, with Michigan's geologist Douglass Houghton...

, was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Trained at Harvard University

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, Hubbard worked closely with Hermann August Hagen

Hermann August Hagen

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, Karl Robert Osten-Sacken

Karl Robert Osten-Sacken

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, and especially Eugene Amandus Schwarz

Eugene Amandus Schwarz

Eugene Amandus Schwarz was an American entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He studied entomology in Europe then left for the U.S.A. in 1872 where he joined the courses of Hermann August Hagen at the University of Harvard...

, with whom he collected around the Lake Superior

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 district. In 1877, he studied and collected termites in Jamaica

Jamaica

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. He next joined the Geological Survey of Kentucky in 1879, working on the fauna

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 of caves. Between 1880 and 1889, he worked on horticultural pest insects in Florida

Florida

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, particularly those of the Orange tree

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. He wrote the Department of Agriculture

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 "Report on Orange Insects" (1885). After collecting trips to Michigan

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, Montana

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, Utah

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, and Oregon

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, he accompanied Charles Valentine Riley

Charles Valentine Riley

Charles Valentine Riley was a British-born American entomologist and artist.-Early Life:The son of a Church of England minister, Charles Valentine Riley was born on 19 September, 1843 in London’s Chelsea district. When he was around eleven his parents, the Rev. Charles and Mary Riley, chose to...

 on a collecting trip to the West Indies (1894).

In 1877 he designed and had built San Sui in Crescent City, Florida. The house is now known as the Hubbard House.

Selected works

• 1877: Notes on the tree nests of termites in Jamaica. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.. 19: 267-274
• 1897: The ambrosia beetles of the United States. U. S. Dept. Agric. Div. Ent. Bull. 7: 9-30.
• 1878-(onwards) with Schwarz,E.A The Coleoptera of Michigan: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

External links

• Smithsonian Archive