Contents 



Introduction page v 



Chapter I page i 



Parents, their birth in Central New York — Scientific ancestors of 

 scientific men — Boyhood in Ithaca, New York — The Promethia Co- 

 coons at Jamaica, Long Island — The Beginning of a collection of 

 insects at Ithaca — The founding, by the boys, of the Ithaca Natural 

 History Society — Early schooling — Death of my father — Entering 

 Cornell University — First meeting with J. H. Comstock — More about 

 boy life — The catching of the first Luna Moth — The non-resident 

 lecturers in the early days at Cornell — Louis Agassiz — The first ap- 

 pearance of the European Cabbage Butterfly in Central New York — 

 C. V, Riley's lecture at Cornell — Graduation from the University — 

 Choice of career — Post-graduate year preparatory to Medicine — 

 Cornell in its early days, and more about life on Lake Cayuga — Frank 

 Cushing at Cornell, Philadelphia, Washington — A walking trip to 

 Eastern Pennsylvania — An ofifer to go to Washington as an assistant 

 entomologist in the Department of Agriculture — S. H. Gage and the 

 post-graduate year — Studies in the anatomy of insects in addition to 

 the pre-medical studies — Riley's bad break in anatomy — Later years 

 at Cornell as trustee — The dropping of the School of Forestry — 

 President Schurman — Ithaca of later years — Anecdote of Hiram 

 Corson — Professor Prentiss and the Master's degree — Social life in 



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