handled with marked ability, making them both interesting and profit- 

 able for the boys. But as one has said, "When I think of Prof. 

 Fernald's teaching us the anatomy of domestic animals and veterinary 

 science, in view of the later college work of the honored professor, 

 the humor of the situation becomes, we think, apparent." 



At that time, the department of natural history was confined 

 entirely to two or three rooms in South College, and Prof. Fernald 

 was in sole charge. In point of time as well as of importance. Prof. 

 Fernald has been the first of the several factors which have co- 

 operated in the upbuilding of these two departments as we find 

 them today. 



The year 1887 was a notable one for all of the agricultural col- 

 leges, as it saw the passage of what was known as the Hatch Act, 

 providing for a national appropriation to each state for the establish- 

 ment and maintenance of an experiment station. The Massachusetts 

 legislature accepted this appropriation very promptly, although Massa- 

 chusetts had several years previously established a state experiment 

 station of her own. As soon as Congress appropriated the money to 

 carry this act into effect, a new station was organized as the experi- 

 ment department of the agricultural college, and work was begun 

 in April, 1888, with Prof. C. H. Fernald as entomologist. The 

 establishment of the experiment station was the next important 

 factor in developing economic entomology. Soon after this. President 

 Goodell recommended to the trustees that a separate chair of veter- 

 inary science be established, and this was done in 1891. Previous to 

 this time, zoology had been the principal subject of instruction, and 

 entomology considered as but a minor, subsidiary branch of that 

 general subject. The establishment of the experiment stations had, 

 however, a stronger effect in developing the study of economic ento- 

 mology, than in developing any other of the divisions which were 

 originally included in them. Being a department of the college and 

 officered by the professor of zoology, we must henceforward consider 

 the department of entomology as embracing two closely connected 

 divisions: one in the college as a course of instruction, the other in 

 the experiment station dealing with investigations, experimentation 

 and the diffusion of information. 



The development of the experiment stations immediately opened 

 a wide field for the activity of trained entomologists. In every state 

 there arose a demand for men having a training such as no institution 

 had previously been prepared to give. Teachers of entomology were 

 called upon to fit men for this new field of work, while at the same 

 time their experiment station duties forced them into experimental 

 and investigational work for the control of insect pests. The growth 

 of these branches of the work called for equipment such as had not 

 previously existed and the need for quarters was first met here, 

 through the construction of a small building with greenhouse attached, 

 known as the 'Tnsectary," which later became the ell of the present 



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