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The Comstocks of Cornell John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock / Anna Botsford Comstock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931.
- Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930--Biography.
- Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
- Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931--Biography.
- Cornell University--Faculty--Biography.
- Cornell University.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists.
- Science--Study and teaching.
- Science.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.) : 7 illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Anna Botsford Comstock (1854-1930) was an American artist, educator, conservationist, and a leader of the nature study movement. In 1895, she was appointed to the New York State Committee for the Promotion of Agriculture. In this position, she planned and implemented an experimental course of nature study for the public schools. Beginning in 1897, she taught nature study at Cornell University until her retirement as Professor in 1922. Comstock edited the Nature-Study Review from 1917 to 1923 and both wrote and illustrated several books, including Ways of the Six-Footed (1903), How to Keep Bees (1905), The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), The Pet Book (1914), and Trees at Leisure (1916). In 1923, the League of Women Voters chose Anna Botsford Comstock as one of the twelve greatest living American women to have "contributed most in their respective fields for the betterment of the world." In 1988, she was inducted into the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Hall of Fame.Karen Penders St. Clair is an independent researcher and holds a position in the School of Integrated Plant Science and Horticulture at Cornell University.
- Summary:
- 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, but it omitted key Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. Karen Penders St. Clair's twenty-first century edition returns Mrs. Comstock's voice to her book by rekeying her entire manuscript as she wrote it, and preserving the memories of the personal and professional lives of the Comstocks that she had originally intended to share. The book includes a complete epilogue of the Comstocks' last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as serious legacy work, the book is an essential part of Cornell University history and an important piece of Cornell University Press history.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-4053-9
- 1-5017-4054-7
- OCLC:
- 1100432495
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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