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The Comstocks of Cornell : the definitive biography
Title
The Comstocks of Cornell : the definitive biography / Anna Botsford Comstock ; edited by Karen Penders St. Clair.
ISBN
9781501716270
9781501716294
9781501716287 (e-book)
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (559 pages)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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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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ProQuest ebook central.
Other formats
Print version: Comstock, Anna Botsford. Comstocks of Cornell : the definitive biography. Ithaca [New York] : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2023
Bibliography
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.
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