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2 unusual facts about William Morton Wheeler


John Battersby Crompton Lamburn

He was as willing to quote and credit a country gamekeeper, as the famous myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler.

William Morton Wheeler

As a taxonomist, Wheeler was responsible for the descriptions of innumerable species, Pogonomyrmex maricopa, the most venomous insect in the world, being among them.


George C. Wheeler

Wheeler began studying ants at the Barro Colorado Island research station in the Panama Canal in 1924, having been urged to go to the tropics by William Morton Wheeler, who had mentored him at Harvard together with Charles Thomas Brues.


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