Comstocks of Cornellthe Definitive Autobiography

"This book is a historic restoration of the complete autobiographical manuscript (later heavily edited) of a prominent Cornellian couple, John Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock, and their enduring legacy at Cornell University"--

List of contents

1. The Boyhood of John Henry Comstock, 1849-1865

2. A Sailor and a Scholar

3. Undergraduate Days at Cornell, 1870-1874

4. Anna Botsford-Childhood and Girlhood

5. A University Professorship and Marriage, 1876-1879

6. Entomologist to U.S. Department of Agriculture (Life in Washington as United States Entomologist, 1879-1881)

7. Return to Cornell

8. The Year 1888-1889; With a Winter in Germany

9. California and Stanford University

10. The Nature Study Movement at Cornell University; A Journey South to Study Spiders

11. "How to Know Butterflies" and the "Confessions to a Heathen Idol"

12. A Sabbatical Year Abroad-Egypt and Greece

13. Italy, Switzerland, and Home

14. Chapter 15: 1908-1912, Cornell's New Quarters for Entomology and Nature Study

15. The Two hundred and Fiftieth-anniversary Celebration of the Royal Society and The International Entomological Congress

16. The 65th Milestone and Retirement

17. Florida and Retirement

18. The Toronto Meeting of the A.A.A.S. 1922. A surprising election and voyage westward.

19. Honolulu and Happiness, A Voyage to Europe

20. Mentone

Editor's Epilogue

About the author

Karen Penders St. Clair is an independent researcher and holds a position in the School of Integrated Plant Science and Horticulture at Cornell University.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Botsford Comstock
• Assisted by: Karen Penders St Clair (Editor), Karen Penders St. Clair (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781501716270
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-1627-0
• No. of pages: 560
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; Die Natur: Sachbuch, NATURE / General, Biologie, Biowissenschaften, Biography / Autobiography, SCIENCE / Natural History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists