In this hurried sketch of these two departments we have been 

 obliged to omit many factors which have helped in their up-building, 

 but we cannot afford to close without alluding to the part that Mrs. 

 C. H. Fernald has contributed. In the department of entomology, 

 one of the most valuable items is a most carefully compiled card catalog 

 containing more than 60,000 references to entomological literature. 

 In several subjects this is particularly complete, and embraces the 

 publications of the world. Mrs. P^rnald has been largely responsible 

 for the preparation of this immense index. Her "Catalogue of the 

 Coccidae of the World," published in 1903, has attracted high praise 

 for both its completeness and its correctness. In many other ways, 

 also, has she contributed invaluable assistance in furthering the work 

 in which Prof. Fernald was engaged. 



Still another factor of importance is found in the very exceptional 

 library facilities afforded entomological students in Amherst. For 

 many years the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Amherst Col- 

 lege librarians have worked together to prevent the needless duplica- 

 tion of expensive works, and the two libraries have been made thus to 

 supplement each other in important particulars. Besides these libraries 

 the experiment station has a very valuable collection of the works 

 that are of primarily economic importance. In addition to all these 

 the private libraries of both the professors have always been open to 

 the use of students. Furthermore, if any book was needed by a stu- 

 dent in his work and it was not obtainable otherwise, the private purse 

 of the professor always provided it. Thus has he built up, for his own 

 and his students' use, a private library of between 2500 and 3000 vol- 

 umes, some of which cannot be duplicated in the United States. 



In closing, I must express for myself and for my fellow students 

 in entomology, our deep appreciation of the self-sacrificing service 

 which Prof. Charles H. Fernald has given to this institution during 

 these twenty-four years. Twenty-five years ago, President Greenough 

 wrote, "Progressive manhood should be the object of every college." 

 Huxley claimed that "Productive thinking is the chief means as well 

 as the end of education." We have had before us the living demon- 

 stration and exemplification of the truth of both these claims, and 

 happy shall we be if we also may be able to show their fruits in our 

 own living and thinking. 



May this building long serve to facilitate the work which he has 

 been largely instrumental in building up, especially in the department 

 of entomology. His real monument, of which this splendid building 

 is but a visible sign, may be found in the lives and work of those 

 students whose interest he has fired, whose minds he has stored with 

 useful knowledge and whose hands he has trained to skillful service. 

 To each of us, he has been both a teacher and a warm personal friend, 

 to whom we owe very much of the best of what w^e are or have been 

 able to accomplish for our fellow-men. 



To the long continued advancement of such work as we have thus 

 but imperfectly review^ed, do we dedicate this building, and our lives. 



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