Vernon Lyman Kellogg (December 1, 1867 – August 8, 1937) was an American
entomologist, evolutionary biologist, and science administrator. His father was
Lyman Beecher Kellogg, first president of the
Kansas State Normal School
Emporia State University (Emporia State or ESU) is a public university in Emporia, Kansas, United States. Established in March 1863 as the Kansas State Normal School, Emporia State is the third-oldest public university in the state of Kansas. Em ...
(now known as
Emporia State University
Emporia State University (Emporia State or ESU) is a public university in Emporia, Kansas, United States. Established in March 1863 as the Kansas State Normal School, Emporia State is the third-oldest public university in the state of Kansas. E ...
), and former
Kansas Attorney General
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* Criminal Justice
* Civil Litigation
* Consumer ...
. In 1908, Kellogg married
Charlotte Hoffman and the two welcomed their only child, Jean Kellogg Dickie, in 1910.
He studied under
Francis Snow at the
University of Kansas
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, under
John Henry Comstock at
Stanford University, and under
Rudolf Leuckart at the
University of Leipzig
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in Germany.
From 1894 to 1920, Kellogg was professor of
entomology at
Stanford University. Kellogg specialized in insect
taxonomy
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
and economic entomology.
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Gr ...
was among his students, and
Florence E. Bemis worked in his lab.
His academic career was interrupted by two years (1915 and 1916) spent in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
as director of
Hoover's humanitarian American Commission for Relief in Belgium. Initially a
pacifist, Kellogg dined with the officers of the
German Supreme Command. He became shocked by the grotesque
Social Darwinist motivation for the German war machine, "the creed of
survival of the fittest based on violent and fatal competitive struggle is the Gospel of the German intellectuals." Kellogg decided that the ideas could be beaten only by force and, using his connections with America's political elite, began to campaign for American intervention in the war. He published an account of his conversations in the book ''Headquarters Nights''.
After the war, he served as the first permanent secretary of the National Research Council in
Washington, DC
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.
He served on the board of trustees for Science Service, (now known as
Society for Science & the Public
Society for Science, formerly known as Science Service and later Society for Science and the Public, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of science, through its science education programs and publications, including ...
), from 1921 to 1933.
A
Liberty ship
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built in the
United States
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during
World War II
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was named ''
SS Vernon L. Kellogg''.
Works
* ''Common injurious insects of Kansas'' (
Lawrence University
Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducati ...
, 1892).
* With J.H. Comstock, ''The elements of insect anatomy; an outline for the use of students in the entomological laboratories of Cornell University and
Leland Stanford Junior University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considere ...
'' (Comstock Pub. Co., Ithaca, 1895).
* With J.H. Comstock, ''The elements of insect anatomy'' (Comstock Pub. Co., Ithaca, 1899).
* ''A list of the biting lice (
Mallophaga
The Mallophaga are a possibly paraphyletic section of lice
Louse ( : lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera has variously been re ...
) taken from birds and mammals of North America'' (Gov’t print. off., Washington, 1899).
* With
Oliver Peebles Jenkins Oliver Peebles Jenkins (born Bantam, Ohio November 3, 1850; died Palo Alto, California January 9, 1935) was an American physiologist and histologist, mainly associated with Stanford University.
Career
Jenkins graduated from Moores Hill College (n ...
(1850-1935), ''Lessons in nature study'' (The Whitaker & Ray Company, San Francisco, 1900).
* With
David Starr Jordan,
Animal Life A First Book of Zoölogy'' (D. Appelton and Co., New York, 1900).
* ''Elementary zoology'' (
Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1901, reedited in 1902).
* ''First lessons in zoology'' (H. Holt and Company, New York, 1903).
* With D.S. Jordan,
Evolution and animal life an elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and evolution of animals'' (D. Appleton and company, New York, 1907).
*
Darwinism to-day a discussion of present-day scientific criticism of the Darwinian selection theories, together with a brief account of the principal other proposed auxiliary and alternative theories of species-forming'' (H. Holt and Company, New York, 1907).
[Ronald L. Numbers (1995). ''Antievolutionism Before World War I''. Taylor & Francis. pp.9-10. ]
*
Insect stories' (D. Appleton and company, New York & London, 1908, reedited in 1923).
* With D.S. Jordan, ''The scientific aspects of
Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science.
He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations inc ...
’s work'' (A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1909).
* ''American insects'' (H. Holt and Company, New York, 1905, reedited in 1908).
*
The animals and man' (New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905, reedited with contributions from
Mary Isabel McCracken
Mary Isabel McCracken (1866 – 29 October 1955) was an American entomologist, researcher and teacher.
Career
McCracken was born in Oakland, California in 1866. She began her teaching career at Oakland’s public schools. After a decade of ...
in 1911).
*''
Eugenics
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and
Militarism
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'', presented at First
International Eugenics Congress, 1912, published in Atlantic Monthly July 1913.
* "Bionomics of War: Military Selection and Race Determination", ''Social Hygiene'', 1/1 (December 1914)
* With
Gordon Floyd Ferris
Gordon Floyd Ferris (January 2, 1893, in Bayard, Kansas – May 21, 1958) was an American entomologist who served as professor of biology at Stanford University from 1912 to 1958 and earned a reputation for his teaching. He founded and edited ...
(1893-1958), ''The Anoplura and Mallophaga of North American mammals'' (Stanford University, 1915).
* With
Rennie Wilbur Doane (1871-1942), ''Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology'' (H. Holt and Company, New York, 1915)
Free online version.* With
Alonzo Engelbert Taylor (1871-1949),
The food problem' (
Macmillan Company
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, New York, 1917).
*
Headquarters nights a record of conversations and experiences at the headquarters of the German army in France and Belgium'' (The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, v. 1917).
*''The Food Problem'' with Alonzo Engelbert Taylor (1871-1949), (The Macmillan company, New York, 1917).
* ''Fighting starvation in Belgium'' (Page & company, New York, Doubleday, 1918).
*''Germany in the War and After'', New York, The Macmillan Company, 1919.
* ''
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Gr ...
, the man and his work'' (D. Appleton and company, New York et Londres 1920).
* With des chansons de Charlotte Kellogg, ''Nuova : or, The new bee, a story for children of five to fifty'' (
Houghton Mifflin
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, Boston et New York, v. 1920).
''Human life as the biologist sees it''(H. Holt and company, New York, 1922).
* ''Mind and heredity'' (
Princeton University Press
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The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financia ...
, 1923).
''Evolution: the way of man.''(D. Appleton, New York, 1926).
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1867 births
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American entomologists
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Stanford University faculty
20th-century American zoologists
People from Emporia, Kansas
Belgian relief in World War I