

Andrew Delmar Hopkins (1857 -1948), whose education was restricted to county schools, came off a West Virginia farm at age 37 to have a most unlikely career at West Virginia University and as first Chief of Forest Insect Investigatins in the USDA. This photo is dated 1909, the year of his classic publication on the bark beetle genus Dendroctonus and the year that he hired Josef Brunner to investigate forest insects in the northern Rocky Mountains. Bureau of Entomology photo 17310, WFIWC archives. (Furniss 2003, Fig. 1).
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