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Science does not assume that it knows — despite the great deal that it does know — more than a very small part of the order of nature.

Vernon Lyman Kellogg

Perhaps no more uninteresting matter, for the general reader or entomological amateur, can be written about insects than a descriptive catalogue of the parts and pieces of the insect body.

Vernon Lyman Kellogg

The biologist seems unable to escape from the use of a terminology that is to be found in the larger dictionaries — and these dictionaries are at home, while the public is in the lecture-hall.

Vernon Lyman Kellogg

Vernon Lyman Kellogg

Vernon Lyman Kellogg

Born: December 1, 1867

Died: August 8, 1937 (aged 69)

Bio: Vernon Lyman Kellogg was a U.S. entomologist, evolutionary biologist, and science administrator. His father was Lyman Beecher Kellogg, first president of the Kansas State Normal School, and former Kansas Attorney General.

Known for:

Darwinism to-day
Insect stories (1908)
Common injurious insects of Kansas (1892)
Germany in the war and after (1919)
Fighting starvation in Belgium (1918)

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