> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 451](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189922) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8042-1) LSID 8042-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2363566) QID Q2363566 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Quaintance, Altus Lacy (1870-1958), American phytopathologist and economic entomologist; B.S. Florida Agric. Coll. \[Univ. Florida\] 1893; M.S. Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1894; Dr. Sci. ib. 1915; instructor in biology and professor of entomology at the University of Florida, 1894-1898; biologist at the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station 1899-1901; State Entomologist of Maryland 1901-1903; in Division of Entomology, U.S.D.A. 1903-1930. **Abbreviated name**: *Quaintance* \[standard form in IPNI: *Quaint.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection FLAS|FLAS]], [[Collection GAES|GAES]]. – Archival material in [[Collection FH|FH]] (letters to R. Thaxter) and SIA (134, 7262). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 117 (b. 19 Dec 1870); BM 4: 1625, 8: 1039; IH 2: (in press); LS 38125-38128, 39098; NW p. 55; PH 59, 150, 939; SIA 134, 7262; Tucker 1: 573-574. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. entom. Soc. Amer. 4(3): 114. 1958 (d. 7 Aug 1958); Proc. entom. Soc. Washington 38: 130. 1936 (list of published biogr. refs.). - Cattell, J.M., ed., Amer. men Sci. ed. 2. 382. 1910; ed. 3. 557. 1921; ed. 4. 792. 1927; ed. - 5. 905. 1933; ed. 6. 1145. 1938; ed. 7. 1431. 1944. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. entom. 306. 1977. - Mallis, A., American entomologists 487-489. 1971 (portr.). - Porter, B.A., J. econ. Entom. 52(1): 182. 1959 (obit.).