Principles of Insect Morphology

Robert Evans Snodgrass (1875-1962)

The lighter side of Insect Morphology - "Upon receiving his B.A. in 1901, he took a teaching job at Washington State College (now University) in Pullman. After about two years the authorities concluded that some of his practical jokes were too much for them, whereupon he returned to Stanford as an instructor in entomology under Kellogg and began his well-known studies on the the anatomy of honeybees. During a period when Kellogg was away in Europe, Snodgrass raised silkworms and stripped the campus mulberry trees of their leaves to feed his voracious charges. The undressed trees fared poorly and died, and once again he was out of a job." - Mallis, A. 1971. American Entomologists. Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 549 p. (source of the Snodgrass photo above)