 About
the Metcalf Collection
The Zeno P. Metcalf Papers contain information about
Metcalf's personal and professional life. The majority of the collection
is in the vast Insect Order Homoptera Literature series which was Metcalf's
personal accumulation of books, pamphlets, journals, bibliographies, studies,
and catalogues from around the world. These materials range in publication
dates from 1746 through 1955, though the bulk of the collection dates
from the nineteenth century. The collection includes virtually everything
published on the Auchenorrhyncha through 1955 and contains every citation
made by Dr. Metcalf in his 42 volume General Catalog of the Homoptera
of the World.
Zeno P. Metcalf was a professor and entomologist
at North Carolina State College from 1912 to 1950. Metcalf received his
A. B. Degree in 1907 from Ohio State University. He became the Assistant
Entomologist for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture in 1908.
He joined the faculty at North Carolina State College in 1912 as Head
of the Department of Zoology and Entomology. He attended Harvard University
and was awarded the degree of Sc.D. in 1925. From 1923-1944 he served
as Director of Instruction for the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences
and from 1940-1943, he was Director of the Graduate School of the Consolidated
University. Most of Metcalf's career was dedicated to compiling and cataloging
his extensive library of research materials relating to the Insect Order
Homoptera and working on the General Catalogue of the Homoptera of the
World, a 42-volume index to his collection.
--from the Special
Collections & University Archives, NCSU Libraries
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