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William Dandridge Peck

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{{other people|William Peck}}William Dandridge Peck (May 8, 1763 Boston – October 8, 1822 Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a botanist,^[1] and America ’s first native entomologist. He graduated Harvard College in 1782 and eventually became Harvard's Massachusetts Professor of Natural History.^[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1793.^[3] Dandridge was also a founding member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1812,^[4] and served as the society's first vice-president from 1812-1816.^[5] His pioneering entomological article was "The Description and History of the Canker Worm", describing the species as Phalaena vernata, the spring cankerworm.^[6]

He had a son, also named William Dandridge Peck (1812{{ndash}}1876), who was a physician and state legislator.{{refn|1=https://books.google.com/books?id=E56RAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA229}}{{refn|1=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2FHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA43}}{{refn|1=https://books.google.com/books?id=fFQZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA132}}

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1. ^{{cite web |work=IPNI |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=7452-1 |title=Entry for Peck, William Dandridge |accessdate=April 23, 2012}}
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3. ^{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter P|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterP.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=August 7, 2014}}
4. ^American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
5. ^Dunbar, B. (1987). Members and Officers of the American Antiquarian Society. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society.
6. ^Peck, W. D. (1795). The Description and History of the Canker-Worm. Massachusetts Magazine, Or, Monthly Museum Of Knowledge & Rational Entertainment, 7(9), 324-327.

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{{cite journal|last1=Anon.|title=Obituary Notice of Professor Peck|journal=Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society|date=1823|volume=10|pages=161–170|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHoFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA161&dq=Obituary+Notice+of+Professor+Peck&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q=Obituary%20Notice%20of%20Professor%20Peck&f=false}}
{{cite book|last1=Mallis|first1=Arnold|title=American Entomologists|date=1971|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=0-8135-0686-7|pages=13–16}}
{{cite book|last1=Sorenson|first1=W. Conner|title=Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880|date=1995|publisher=University of Alabama Press|pages=64–65}}

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