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Tyler (American entomologist)

an American entomologist and biologist, born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1863.

He studied at the Columbian (now George Washington) University in Washington, D. C., at the School of Medicine, then became assistant entomologist in the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1891 he became professor of entomology and zoölogy at the Agricultural College of New Mexico and the state experiment station. In 1909 he became permanent director of the entomological stations of the United States, and, in 1914, entomological assistant in the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture. Since 1919 he has been chief entomologist of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

TOWNSEND, EDWARD WATER- MAN, an American author; born in Cleveland, O., Feb. 10, 1855. His stories and sketches, first printed in the daily journals, were collected under the titles: "Chimmie Fadden, Major Max, and Other Stories"; "Chimmie Fadden Explains, Major Max Expounds"; "A Daughter of the Tenements"; "Near a Whole City Full." In collaboration he wrote several plays: "Chimmie Fadden"; "Daughter of the Tenements"; "The Marquis of Michigan," "Beaver Creek Farm” (1907); "The Climbing Courvatells" (1909).

TOWNSEND, GEORGE ALFRED, pseudonym GATH, an American war cor respondent; born in Georgetown, Del., Jan. 30, 1841. He became a journalist in 1860; was special correspondent for the New York "Herald" and New York "World" in 1860-1864; afterward public lecturer, and war correspondent in the Austro-Prussian War (1866). His publications in book form are: "Campaigns of a Non-Combatant" (1865); "Life of Garibaldi" 1867); "Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1867); "The New World and TOWNSEND the Old"; "Poems" (1870); "Washington Outside and Inside" (1871); "Bohemian Days" (1881); "The Entailed Hat" (1884), and "Katy of Catoctin; or, The Chain-Breakers" (1886), novels; "Life of Levi P. Morton" (1888); "Tales of Gapland"; etc.

TOWNSEND, CHARLES, SECOND VISCOUNT, an English statesman; born in Rainham, Norfolk, March 10, 1674; succeeded to the peerage December, 1687, and took his seat as a Whig in the House of Peers, 1695. After acting as a commissioner for arranging the Scotch Union (1706), he was joint plenipotentiary with Marlborough in the conference at Gertruydenburg (1709), and then, as ambassador to the States-General, signed the Barrier Treaty. For this he was censured by the House of Commons, and declared an enemy to the queen and kingdom. He thereupon entered into communication with the Elector of Hanover, who, on his accession as George I., appointed Townshend secretary of state, 1714. In 1717 he became lord-lieutenant of Ireland; and he was again secretary of state from February, 1721, to May, 1730, when he retired on account of differences with his brother-in-law and colleague, Sir Robert Walpole. He died in Rainham, June 21, 1738.