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1 online resource (559 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The boyhood of John Henry Comstock, 1849-1865 -- A sailor and a scholar -- Undergraduate days at Cornell -- Anna Botsford Comstock : childhood and girlhood -- A university professorship and marriage, 1876-1879 -- Entomologist to U. S. Department of Agriculture (life in Washington as United States entomologist, 1879-1881) -- Return to Cornell -- The year 1888-1889; with a winter in Germany -- California and Stanford University -- The nature study movement at Cornell University; a journey south to study spiders -- How to know butterflies and the confessions to a heathen idol -- A sabbatical year abroad : Egypt and Greece -- Italy, Switzerland, and home -- Chapter 15 : 1908-1912, Cornell's new quarters for entomology and nature study -- The two-hundred and fiftieth-anniversary celebration of the Royal Society and the International Entomological Congress -- The 65th milestone and retirement -- Florida and retirement -- The Toronto meeting of the A.A.A.S. 1922. A surprising voyage westward -- Honolulu and happiness, a voyage to Europe -- Mentone. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931.
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Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
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Cornell University -- Faculty -- Biography.
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Entomologists -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography.
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College teachers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography.
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Women wood-engravers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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St. Clair, Karen Penders, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comstock, Anna Botsford. Comstocks of Cornell : the definitive biography. Ithaca [New York] : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501716294 (DLC) 2019020876 |
| ISBN |
9781501716270 (cloth) |
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9781501716294 |
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9781501716287 (e-book) |
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