Letters between Royal N. Chapman and Vito Volterra

Abstract

Royal Norton Chapman was born in Morristown (Minnesota, U.S.A.) on 17 September 1889. After completing his secondary schooling at the Pillsbury Academy (Owatonna, Minnesota) he entered the University of Minnesota in 1910, where he embarked upon entomology studies, graduating in Arts in 1914. He receive his MS degree the year after with a work on the life cycle of the two-lined chestnut borerAgrilus bilineatusunder the direction of A. G. Ruggles. He was immediately awarded a fellowship at Cornell University and in 1917 received his Ph.D. He then returned to the University of Minnesota where, for the years 1917 and 1918 he was teaching fellow at the Department of Animal Biology. For a number of years he had addressed his research to stored-product insects and the dynamics of insect populations, an interest that was increasingly incorporated in the general context of quantitative animal ecology.