Bequaert, Joseph Charles

Joseph Charles Bequaert was a Belgian naturalist who emigrated to America in 1916. Bequaert studied botany at the University of Ghent (1908). He was an entomologist, and was part of the Belgian Committee on sleeping sickness (1910-1912). From 1913 to 1915 he worked as a botanist in the Belgian Congo. After emigrating to the United States he continued his career in entomology (associate researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, Harvard Medical School, Curator of Insects at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, Professor of Zoology Harvard, biology at the University of Houston). He became an American citizen in 1921. Bequaert became president of the American Malacological Union in 1954. He published The Mollusks of the Arid Southwest in 1973 with Walter Bernard Miller .