George F. Edmunds, Jr. (1920-2006)

摘要

The Seventh International Conference on Ephemeroptera held August 1992 at the University of Maine, Orono, was dedicated to the greatest of living North American researchers on Ephemeroptera, Dr. George F. Edmunds, Jr. On this occasion, W. P. McCafferty prepared a dedicatory address 'George Edmunds, Ephemeropterist Par Excellence' which is included in the Proceedings of that Conference edited by Lynda Corkum and Jan J. H. Ciborowski published as Current Directions in Research on Ephemeroptera (1995, Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press). Dr. McCafferty's presentation covered the significant professional accomplishments of George Edmunds and provided a list of his Ephemeroptera publications to that date. We can add little to this thorough work by McCafferty; instead, we supply here some biographical notes, some supplementary information, and some personal comments. Papers published subsequent to those listed by McCafferty are given at the end of this note.