PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



VOL. 20 DECEMBER, 1918 No. 9 



ALLEN BOWIE DUCKETT. 



BY C. H. POPENOE, JAMES A. HYSLOP AND H. L. SANFORD. 



Allen Bowie Duckett was born at Bladensburg, Maryland, 

 March 9, 1891. His preparatory schooling was received at the 

 Bladensburg public schools, from which he entered the prepara- 

 tory department of the Maryland Agricultural College. 



His interest in natural science early led him into the study of 

 insects, to which he devoted much time during his junior and senior 

 years at college. In the summer of 1911 he secured an appoint- 

 ment with the Bureau of Entomolgy as student assistant, under 

 Dr. F. H. Chittenden, returning in the fall to college to complete 

 his course in entomology. He graduated from Maryland Agri- 

 cultural College in 1912, receiving the degree of Bachelor of 

 Science in biology. 



In June, 1912, he was appointed scientific assistant with the 

 Bureau of Entomology, under Dr. Chittenden, which position 

 he retained until the year 1917. During this time he was occu- 

 pied with the investigation of the pests of truck crops in Mary- 

 land and Virginia, and was later assigned to work on the life 

 histories and control measures of stored product insects, a task 

 which secured his deep interest, resulting in his transfer to the 

 office of Stored Product Insect Investigations on its creation in 

 1917. There, under *Dr. E. A. Back he was appointed assistant 

 entomologist and assigned to the study of the insects affecting 

 army supplies at the port of New York. On this project he 

 labored unceasingly until his seizure by pneumonia, which claimed 

 him- on October 8, 1918, hardly a month after his marriage to Miss 

 Margaret Hildreth, the daughter of Mrs. Margaret B. Hildreth 

 of Washington, D. C. 



He was a member of the Washington Entomological Society 

 since 1912, and was also affiliated with the Entomological Society 

 of America, and with the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. In the field of systematic entomology his in- 

 terests were devoted to the Jassidae in the Hemiplera and to 

 the Halticini in the Coleoptera. A contribution on the latter 

 group, prepared as a thesis for advanced work, is now in the 



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