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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb 24, 1956
INSPECTING HIS COLLECTION—Sitting at his office desk, Dr. H. B. Hungerford, professor of entomology, looks at a part of his extensive collection of insects.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Hemiptera? That's Dr. Hungerford's Field
Murphy Cites KU Expansion
Surrounded in his office by boxes containing some of the innumerable insects he has studied for many years H. B. Hungerford, professor of entomology and internationally known authority on insects said, "My salary is retiring, but I'm not."
Any university must be measured by its progress, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told the Shawnee County alumni banquet meeting in Topeka Thursday.
The engineering school is only one example of KU's progress, Dr. Murphy said. The school ranks ninth among 172 schools of engineering in the country according to the "Who's Who in Engineering."
Dr. Murphy predicted that University enrollment would reach 10,000 in five years and 15,000 to 20,000 by 1970.
The library, art museum, University Theater, physical properties, and athletics were listed as other examples of progress.
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For 32 summers of his teaching career, Dr. Hungerford taught entomology at the biological station of the University of Michigan.
"My hobby is my research," Dr. Hungerford said. "If I have about 10 more years of good health, I ought to get the field cleared up as far as taxonomy is concerned."
"Last summer we went to Minnesota and built ourselves a cabin. That's where we'll spend our summer vacations from now on."
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"It has been a wonderful thing to be an authority on the group of insects in which I am interested," he said. Dr. Hungerford's main interest has been in the aquatic members of Hemiptera, an order of insects.
In 1928 he spent a year in Europe studying insect types in the museums of several countries. Dr. Hungerford said that many of the descriptions of insects in books were in Latin and were short, so he felt it was wise to go and study them.
"I will spend all my time on research next year," Dr. Hungerford said, "and there won't be any free time." He said he had about half a dozen projects "under way."
"Since my trip, I have received insects from all over the world to classify and determine, and this I have been able to do." From these specimens Dr. Hungerford has kept samples so that now the University has "the largest collection of Hemiptera in the world."
That same year "I got a notice from the chancellor saying that I had been appointed as an instructor in entomology. I hadn't even known there was an opening," Dr. Hungerford said. "Except for a year's leave of absence at Cornell to get my Ph.D. and a year in Europe, I have been here." Dr. Hungerford has been head of the department of entomology for 25 years.
KU Collection Largest
Taught Since 1911
"I was interested in the ecology and environmental relationships and biology of insects, but had to do the taxonomy (classification) as a foundation," Dr. Hungerford said. When he started work on his master's degree at KU, he worked on the biology of Hemiptera, but found that some of the insects were called by more than one name. Some of the families "were so mixed up that I couldn't get anywhere," he said.
"I was always interested in insects when I was a boy, so I decided to come here and major in entomology." After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1911, he decided to stay and get his master's.
His book, "The Coriidae of the Western Hemisphere," classifies all the "water boatmen" of this hemisphere. He is now working on a book to do the same with these insects found in the eastern hemisphere.
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