Raymond Corbett Shannon

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raymond Corbett Shannon (4 October 1894, Washington D.C. - 7 March 1945) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera and medical entomology. His studies at Cornell University were interrupted by World War I, but he received his B.S. from there in 1923. He was employed by the U.S. Bureau of Entomology from 1912-1916, and again from 1923-1925. In 1926, he began graduate studies at George Washington University, and from 1927 on he was employed by the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.He published over 100 articles on the characteristics, environment and behavior of insects and on their aspects as disease vectors. One of his discoveries, in 1930, was of the arrival of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries malaria, into the New World.