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journeys to Stanford University. He made such a good impression 

 there that he was later appointed Associate Professor and remained 

 at Stanford for many years carrying on important research work and 

 publishing several books of a broad zoological character, some of 

 them in collaboration with David Starr Jordan. It seems a pity that 

 Kellogg, with his great ability, never went into economic entomology. 

 With the outbreak of the World War he was drafted into relief 

 work in Europe by Herbert Hoover, and at the conclusion of the war 

 he was made Permanent Secretary of the National Research Council. 



Many well known entomologists have come from Comstock's lab- 

 oratory aside from Slingerland and Kellogg — W. A. Riley, now of the 

 University of Minnesota, R. N. Chapman of the same institution, 

 Glenn W. Herrick who succeeded Slingerland at Cornell, R. H. Pettit 

 now of the Michigan Agricultural College, E. P. Felt, for many years 

 State Entomologist of New York, and many others. A. L. Quaintance, 

 Associate Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, took summer work 

 there, and so have many sound entomologists now in important ento- 

 mological positions in different places. The Department of Ento- 

 mology at Cornell has grown to a commanding position, and directly 

 or indirectly is furnishing the country with many excellent workers. 



Comstock was the first real teacher of entomology in the United 

 States who carried his work through to a very successful conclusion. 

 Certain German writers, notably my very good friends Karl 

 Escherich and Walther Horn, have emphasized the fact that he was 

 a student of Hagen who was German born and trained. As a matter 

 of fact, this conveys a rather erroneous impression. It is true that 

 he went, during one of his summer vacations, to Cambridge and had 

 a short course of private instruction talks from Plagen, but on the 

 other hand he went to Yale twice and studied with A. E. Verrill and 

 Sidney I. Smith. Nevertheless, he had a great admiration for German 

 entomology, and in 1888-89 studied at the University of Leipsic. 



I think that I was fully justified when, in my address as President 

 of the Fourth International Congress of Entomology held at Ithaca, 

 New York, August 12, 1928, I used the following words: " . . . . 

 who shall say that in the future, when the vital importance of insects 

 as affecting the well-being of humanity shall have become fully real- 

 ized, this spot shall not become in a way a shrine where entomologists 

 will gather in token of their respect to the first great teacher of ento- 

 mology in America ? " 



Anna B. Comstock, wife of Professor Comstock, has been a great 

 helpmate. Writing in a charming popular style, she threw herself 

 into the nature-study movement and became identified with this 



