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Howard (LELAND OSSIAN American)

LELAND OSSIAN, American entomologist; born in Rockford, Ill., in 1857. He graduated from Cornell University in 1877 , graduate courses at Georgetown University. He was appointed assistant entomologist in the Bureau of Entomology in 1878 and was appointed chief of that bureau in 1894. He was honorary curator of the Department of Insects from 1895 and was consulting curator of in the United States National Museum the United States Health Service from 1904. He was permanent secretary of the American Association for the Adof Science, and he was a member of many foreign and American scientific societies.

His published writings include " ings include "The Insect Book" (1902) ; North America" (1912); together with many pamphlets and monographs.