Berkeley as Assistant in Entomology, the beginning of a long and successful career as a teacher, collector, and researcher. He became an Assistant Professor in 1916, Associate Professor in 1921, full Professor in 1927, and Emeritus Professor in 1939. Van Dyke traveled and collected extensively throughout the Western United States. He was considered the foremost expert on beetles of the region. He was especially interested in the habitats of beetles and their distribution in North America. He described more than 400 species, focusing in particular on five families: Carabidae, Meloidae, Elateridae, Buprestidae, and Curculionidae. In 1923-1924 he collected in China, Manchuria, and Japan; in 1933 he visited Europe and Egypt. In addition, he was an expert on the insect pests in the forestry industry and authored a textbook on the topic, Forest Insects (1936). During his career he published 153 papers. Van Dyke died on September 28, 1952. His insect collection of some 200,000 specimens was donated to the California Academy of Sciences. Publications Van Dyke published over 150 papers and books including: Butterflies of Yosemite, 1892 The distribution of insects in Western North America, 1919 The Coleoptera collected by the Katmai expeditions, 1924 A reclassification of the genera of North America Meloidae (Coleoptera), 1928 Miscellaneous studies in the Elateridae and related families of Coleoptera, 1932 Forest insects, 1936 Rhyncogonus of the Mangarevan Expedition, 1937 The origin and distribution of the Coleopterous insect fauna of North America, 1939 The Coleoptera of the Galapagos Islands, 1953 Notes References Further reading Essig, E. O. 1953. Edwin Cooper Van Dyke. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 29: 73-97. External links American ophthalmologists Physicians from California American entomologists 1869 births 1952 deaths People from Oakland, California University of California, Berkeley alumni Coleopterists University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources faculty