During the next ten years, from 1875 to 1885, most of the in- 

 struction in zoology seems to have been given by temporary lecturers, 

 who were called in from outside the regular faculty. Again Amherst 

 college helped out, and Profs. B. K. Emerson and John M. Tyler 

 gave the zoological instruction. Dr. Frederick Tuckerman, a graduate 

 of this college, class of '78, whom we are glad to have with us here 

 today, was a medical graduate at Harvard in '82, and during the next 

 few years lectured on human anatomy and physiology. The only 

 instruction in entomology during this period appears to have been 

 that given by Prof. S. T. Maynard in connection with horticultural 

 courses, and a course in entomology given to the class of '83 by 

 President P. A. Chadbourne. 



The college was fortunate in receiving a natural history collec- 

 tion in its early days from the Massachusetts State Board of Agri- 

 culture, which had begun the collection of an exhibit of the birds, 

 mammals, insects, etc., native to the state, some years before the 

 establishment of the college. As early as 1858 this collection is said 

 to have included about two-thirds of the native species of birds and 

 nearly 2000 species of insects. Upon the establishment of the college 

 it was decided to move this collection from Boston to the new institu- 

 tion and this transfer was made apparently, in 1867 or 1868. Valuable 

 additions to it were made by gift or purchase, so that it was considered 

 worth more than $2000 at the time that the building in which it was 

 housed was burned in 1885. Through the prompt efforts of the 

 students, some of this museum was removed from the burning building, 

 but with considerable damage. Above the ashes of the old, there was 

 quickly erected a new building, the South College of today, in which 

 the zoological collection has since been stored, and where has been 

 located the headquarters of the department of zoology. During the 

 past twenty-five years the value of the equipment for the zoological 

 department, excluding this collection, has increased to more than 

 $10,000. 



The years 1886 and 1887 must be considered as marking an epochal 

 point in the history of the college. In 1886, Henry H. Goodell became 

 its president, and in his first annual report, the twenty-fourth of the 

 college, he mentions the establishment of a new department in the 

 domain of natural history. "The chair," said he, "has been admirably 

 filled by the election of Charles H. Fernald, Ph. D." Prof. Fernald, 

 as he has always modestly insisted that he would prefer to be called, 

 was a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1871, then professor of natural 

 history in the University of Maine until 1886, receiving his Doctor's 

 degree from that institution. At one time it was his privilege also, to 

 study with that incomparable teacher, Louis Agassiz, in his famous 

 seaside school at Penikese. The chair which he took was entitled 

 "Professor of Zoology and Lecturer on Veterinary Science." Grouped 

 under this were the subjects of human anatomy and physiology, 

 entomology, comparative anatomy of domestic animals and veter- 

 inary science, all of which subjects he is said by his students to have 



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