accommodate all of those who desired to elect entomological work. 

 Year after year numbers of students had to be denied the privilege 

 of taking work which the college, through its catalog, had advertised 

 to give them. The emergency was met temporarily by a $3000 addi- 

 tion or enlargement of the old building, completed in 1905, but again 

 crowding ensued and students had to be turned away. During the 

 twenty years preceding, the entomological collection had grown rapidly 

 and the equipment of the department increased until there was stored 

 in this old two-story wooden building, materials valued at between 

 $30,000 and $35,000, and a large number of type specimens of insects, 

 which if lost, or damaged in any way, could never be replaced at any 

 price. 



These conditions were potent factors in securing from the legis- 

 lature of 1909 an appropriation of $80,000 for the erection of the 

 building which we are dedicating. 



In connection with this appropriation, w^e cannot refrain from 

 mentioning the important part played by Hon. F. A. Hosmer, who 

 was then Amherst's representative in the general assembly. His 

 enthusiastic and able leadership was doubtless largely responsible for 

 the immediate granting of the request for this building. 



The development of the course of instruction preceded rather 

 than followed the progress in building equipment. Although Prof. 

 Lull undertook all of the class work in zoology. Prof. Fernald re- 

 tained his position as head of the department until his retirement from 

 the college in the summer of 1910. During this period of seventeen 

 years, the major part of his time and strength was given to the 

 upbuilding of the department of entomology. Entomology was his 

 first love and through his work in this field, his name was known 

 internationally even before he came to Amherst. From 1894 to 1899 

 the entomological courses were being steadily elaborated, but still 

 served mainly as minor subjects for men who proposed to follow some 

 phase of horticulture oi landscape gardening as their life work. The 

 value of the work given was appreciated by the students, however, as 

 is shown by the large numbers electing the course. Foundations were 

 being laid for the next significant outgrowth which was being planned 

 in the mind of Prof. Fernald, at least, to take the form of a grad- 

 uate school. To make this graduate work possible, assistance both 

 in the class room and in the experiment station was imperative, but 

 those were years of struggle for the college in a financial way par- 

 ticularly, and increased funds could not be secured to provide increased 

 teaching force. Few, indeed, of those who were watching the growth 

 of the college at that time, had any idea of the personal financial 

 sacrifice that was shared by father and son, when Dr. Henry T. Fer- 

 nald accepted the position of professor of entomology in 1899. 



Henry Torsey Fernald was graduated from the University of Maine 

 in 1885, just before his father left that institution to begin teaching 

 at Amherst. After further study at Wesleyan, Maine, and Johns 

 Hopkins Universities, he took his degree of Ph. D. at Hopkins in 

 1890, and immediately accepted a very flattering opening as professor 



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