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Excerpt from Bibliography and Index to Scienti?c Contributions of Carl J. Drake for the Years 1914 1967
Dr. Drake was born and raised on a farm in Eagleville, Ohio, on 28 July 1885, and died in Washington, D.C., on 2 October 1965. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Pedantics degrees at baldwin-wallace College (1912) then, at Ohio State University, earned the degrees of Master of Arts (1914) and Doctor of Philosophy As a graduate student and until 1922 he was on the staff of Syracuse University.
As head of the Department of Zoology and Entomology at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (1922 his positions included those of State Entomologist and head of the Entomology Section of the Agriculture Experiment Station through the depression and war years. This was a most difficult period in the history of mid western agriculture because of drought, grasshopper plagues, chinch bug outbreaks, and the destruction of crops by Hessian flies, army worms, and the European corn borer. Dr. Drake's superior entomological knowledge aided him in combating these pests both biologically and chemically. Paper barricades and creosote stopped the flightless immature chinch bugs from migrating from infested fields to fresh crop fields. A statewide poison-bran project destroyed the grasshoppers and fly free date planting methods helped the wheat crop escape damage from the Hessian fly. He educated the general public to the problem at hand and worked in close cooperation with the farmer and local, state, and federal governments to bring Iowa and the Nation through these crises.
In 1946 Dr. Drake was relieved of all these responsibilities and concentrated on the taxonomy of Hemiptera. The title of Honorary Research Associate of the u.s. National Museum was bestowed upon him in 1957, and he was then able to devote his time entirely to research. A bachelor whose life centered around his work, he Spent twelve hours a day at the museum, six and a half days a week (how disappointed he was to learn the museum was closed on Christmas day!) Most of his efforts were directed toward the description of new genera and Species. He enjoyed having these illustrated by talented scientific artists. The morphological study of the family Tingidae (drake and Davis, 1960) and the catalog of the Tingidae (drake and Ruhoff, 1965) are a memorial and tribute to Carl J Drake, who was the author of the overwhelming majority of tingid taxa.
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