The Comstocks of Cornell : John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock /

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The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and her husband's, entomologist John Henry Comstock--both prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell University history. A first edition was published in 1953, bu...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930 (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Smith, Ruby Green, 1878-1960 (Éditeur intellectuel), Herrick, Glenn W. (Glenn Washington), 1870-1965 (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2021
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Comstock, Anna Botsford, > 1854-1930.
Comstock, John Henry, > 1849-1931.
Cornell University > Faculty > Biography.
Women wood-engravers > New York (State) > Ithaca > Biography.
College teachers > New York (State) > Ithaca > Biography.
Entomologists > New York (State) > Ithaca > Biography.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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