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Albert Franklin Burgess moth manuscript collection / photo album

This is the second of two notebooks in the manuscript collection. Notebook 1 contains the manuscript, "The Gypsy moth and the Brown-tail moth: a history of the work for prevention of spread and extermination of these insects in North America" by A.F. Burgess, dated 1944. · Albert Franklin Burgess (1873-1953) was an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture from 1907 to 1943 first in the Bureau of Entomology then in the U.S. Plant Quarantine and Control Administration and finally in the U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. From 1913 to 1928, Burgess was placed in charge of the gypsy moth and brown-tail moth project which was the largest attempt at the time to introduce natural enemies to control an imported pest. In 1928, he was appointed principal entomologist of the U.S. Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. From 1934 until his retirement, he was principal entomologist of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. He was considered the foremost authority in the United States on the gypsy and brown-tail moths, authoring several reports, bulletins, and books

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