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| | Benjamin Dann Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | WALSH, Benjamin Dann, entomologist, born in Frome, Worcestershire, England, 21 September, 1808; died in Rock Island, Illinois, 18 November, 1869. |
 | | He was graduated at Cambridge, and it was the desire of his parents that he should study for the ministry, his own inclinations led him into literary work, and he wrote extensively for periodicals, including a pamphlet on university reforms, almost all the suggestions in which he lived to see practically carried out. |
 | | Walsh was associated with Charles V. Riley in founding the " American Entomologist "in 1868, and was its senior editor until his death. |
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