Haskins, Caryl Parker (1908-2001)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Caryl Parker Haskins was born in 1908 in Schenectady, New York to Caryl Davis Haskins and Frances Parker Haskins. His father was employed by the General Electric Company in Schenectady where the family lived in a cottage at 1108 Avon Road. Both parents were natives of Lynn, Massachusetts; however, as an infant, the father was taken to live with his grandparents in England. He returned to Massachusetts in 1906, at the age of twenty, with a small inheritance from his grandfather. His funds barely lasted until he settled in Sudbury, where he was obliged to buy a rifle and shoot rabbits for food. Within a few months of his arrival, he met and married Frances Julia Parker and began working for General Electric.

Haskins earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1935 while continuing research in radiation physics at the General Electric Company’s Research Laboratory. He equipped his garage to provide a starting point for the continuing study of American war-time radiation. Thus was founded Haskins Laboratories, devoted to multifaceted programs in biophysics and microbiology.

In 1938, Caryl Haskins traveled to Africa to collect ants in the dense temperate rain forests of the Mikeno Caryl Parker Haskins—A Bio-Bibliography Young scientist Edna Ferrell, circa 1939. Sector in Ituri Forest and on the Ruindi Plains. He was particularly interested in the formation of colonies by young isolated Ponerine females described by Haskins as “dutiful daughters who acquired the ability to mature in the shortest possible time to lighten the burden upon their mothers, sacrificing physical vigor and suppressing all the organs they did not need.”

PUBLICATIONS

 * Haskins, C. P. 1928. Notes on the behavior and habits of Stigmatomma pallipes Haldeman. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 36:179-184.


 * Haskins, C. P. 1941. Notes on the method of colony foundation of the ponerine ant Bothroponera soror Emery. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 49:211-216.


 * Haskins, C. P. 1952 ("1951"). Note on a gynandromorph in Amblyopone australis Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 59:221-224.


 * Haskins, C. P. 1970. Researches in the biology and social behavior of primitive ants. Pp. 355-388 in: Aronson, L. R.; Tobach, E.; Lehrman, D. S.; Rosenblatt, J. S. (eds.) 1970. Development and evolution of behavior. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, xviii + 656 pp.


 * Haskins, C. P. 1979 ("1978"). Sexual calling behavior in highly primitive ants. Psyche (Cambridge) 85:407-415.


 * Haskins, C. P.; Haskins, E. F. 1950. Note on the method of colony foundation of the ponerine ant Brachyponera (Euponera) lutea Mayr. Psyche (Cambridge) 57:1-9.


 * Haskins, C. P.; Haskins, E. F. 1951a ("1950"). Notes on the biology and social behavior of the archaic ponerine ants of the genera Myrmecia and Promyrmecia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 43:461-491.


 * Haskins, C. P.; Haskins, E. F. 1951b. Note on the method of colony foundation of the ponerine ant Amblyopone australis Erichson. American Midland Naturalist 45:432-445.


 * Haskins, C. P.; Haskins, E. F. 1955. The pattern of colony foundation in the archaic ant Myrmecia regularis. Insectes Sociaux 2:115-126.


 * Haskins, C. P.; Haskins, E. F. 1964. Notes on the biology and social behavior of Myrmecia inquilina. The only known myrmeciine social parasite. Insectes Sociaux 11:267-282.


 * [[Media:Haskins & Haskins 1974.pdf| Haskins, C.P. & Haskins, E.F. 1974. Notes on necrophoric behavior in the archaic ant Myrmecia vindex. Psyche 81: 258-267. [26.ix.1974.] PDF]]


 * Haskins, C. P.; Haskins, E. F. 1981 ("1980"). Notes on female and worker survivorship in the archaic ant genus Myrmecia. Insectes Sociaux 27:345-350.


 * Haskins, C. P.; Hewitt, R. E.; Haskins, E. F. 1973. Release of aggressive and capture behaviour in the ant Myrmecia gulosa F. by exocrine products of the ant Camponotus. Journal of Entomology. Series A 47:125-139.


 * Haskins, C. P.; Whelden, R. M. 1954. Note on the exchange of ingluvial food in the genus Myrmecia. Insectes Sociaux 1:33-37.


 * Haskins, C. P.; Whelden, R. M. 1965. "Queenlessness", worker sibship, and colony versus population structure in the formicid genus Rhytidoponera. Psyche (Cambridge) 72:87-112.


 * [[Media:Haskins & Zahl 1971.pdf| Haskins, C.P. & Zahl, P.A. 1971. The reproductive pattern of Dinoponera grandis Roger with notes on the ethology of the species. Psyche 78: 1-11. [30.xii.1971.] PDF]]


 * Hölldobler, B.; Haskins, C. P. 1977. Sexual calling behavior in primitive ants. Science (Washington, D. C.) 195:793-794.


 * Whelden, R. M.; Haskins, C. P. 1954 ("1953"). Cytological and histological studies in the Formicidae. I. Chromosome morphology and the problem of sex determination. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:579-595.