HOWARD, LELAND OSSIAN (1857— ), American entomologist, was born at Rockford (Ill.) on June ii, 1857. He graduated from Cornell university, becoming B.S. in 1877 and M.S. in 1883. After serving as assistant entomologist at the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington (D.C.), in 1878, he was made chief of the Bureau of Entomology in He retired from the chief ship of the Bureau in Oct. 1927, to devote his time wholly to research. From 1904 he was consulting entomologist in the United States Public Health Service, and from 1895 honorary curator of the United States National Museum. He was in 1917 a member of the committee on agri culture and chairman of the sub-committee on medical entomology of the National Council of Defence. He was chairman of the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Congress at Honolulu (1924).
Howard wrote Mosquitoes—How they Live (19o1) ; The Insect Book (1902); The House Fly—Disease Carrier (191I) ; a monograph on mosquitoes for the Carnegie Institution (1912) ; and many govern ment bulletins.