Henry Wickham

Wickham
Henry Wickham
Henry F. Wickham (1866 – 1933) was an English-born entomologist who studied beetles at University of Iowa.

In 1912, he dug a trench six feet deep and twenty feet long in the Florissant shale beds to collect fossils.

He described more than 350 species of fossil beetles in his 15 publications, written between 1908 and 1920.

Today, his collections are at the Smithsonian's Natural Museum of Natural History.

Last updated: July 31, 2021

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