Alexander, Charles Paul


Charles Alexander was born in New York state on September 25, 1889. He entered Cornell University in 1909, receiving B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1913 and 1918, respectively. He was employed as systematic entomologist in the Snow Entomological Museum at the University of Kansas in 1917–1919 and then by Illinois Natural History Survey in 1919–1922. Next he moved to Massachusetts Agricultural College and was placed in charge of teaching entomology. He served as chairman of the Department of Entomology and Zoology for 10 years, for the last three of which he was dean of the School of Science (of what had by then become the University of Massachusetts).

He was president of the Entomological Society of America in 1941–1943 (two terms). His almost exclusive subject of research was the family Tipulidae (crane flies) about which he published over 1,000 papers and described over 10,000 species, an enormous production. After retirement from teaching, he moved his insect collection to his house and continued working on it until the death of his wife, Mabel, in 1979. Two years later he transferred his collection to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. He died at home in Massachusetts on December 12, 1981.

Alexander, Charles Paul

Alexander, Charles Paul


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