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The majority of the Metcalf Entomology Research Collection consists of research materials pertaining to the scientific and economic aspects of insects, primarily of the Order Homoptera. Additional items housed in the collection consist of correspondence relating to the long career and varied professional interests of Zeno Payne Metcalf. An index to the research materials in the collection and additional information about cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers may be found in DrMetcalf: a resource on on cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers. This collection also contains a variety of teaching materials used by Metcalf for classroom instruction. Teaching materials inlcude drawings, figures, posters, and other teaching aids for Entomoilogy and Zoology courses. Zeno Payne Metcalf (1885-1956) was an entomologist who compiled and catalogued a large library of research materials relating to the Insect Order Homoptera and created the General Catalogue of the Homoptera of the World, a 42-volume index to his collection. Metcalf was born in Lakeville, Ohio and was educated at Ohio State University. He received his A.B. degree in 1907 and came to North Carolina as Assistant Entomologist for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture in 1908. He joined the faculty of N.C. State College in 1912 as Head of the Department of Zoology and Entomology, a position he held until 1950. He attended Harvard University and was awarded the degree of Sc.D. in 1925. From 1923 until 1944 he served as Director of Instruction for the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences; from 1940 until 1943 was Director of Graduate Studies at N.C. State College; and from 1943 to 1950 was Associate Dean of the Graduate School of the Consolidated University. Metcalf retired from administrative duties in 1950 but continued to work as a research professor of entomology from 1950 until his death in 1956. He married Mary Luella Correll in 1909 and had a daughter, Katherine (Mrs. Micou Browne). Less