constructive ability, as well as a memorial to the twenty-four years 

 of service of Prof. Charles H. Fernald in the development of the 

 department. 



Dr. Fernald has long been an active member of a number of 

 scientific organizations. Among others, he is a fellow of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, an active member 

 of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, of the 

 Entomological Society of America, and of the American Society of 

 Naturalists. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and secured the 

 organization of a chapter of this honor fraternity in the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College. 



Upon his graduation from Johns Hopkins University, and when 

 about to begin his work at Pennsylvania state college, he married, 

 June 9, 1890, Miss Minna R. Simon of Baltimore. Their two daugh- 

 ters and one son make a very happy family circle. 



Dr. Fernald's work has been primarily that of a teacher of ento- 

 mology ; and as a teacher he will be known through the men whom he 

 has been so largely instrumental in preparing for practical economic 

 work. Most of his students have chosen economic entomology as 

 their profession; and they may be found in colleges and experiment 

 stations throughout the United States, and as government ento- 

 mologists in several foreign countries. In the continuance of his 

 teaching, and in developing in the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 the department of entomology of which he is the head, Dr. Fernald 

 has before him a long career of growing usefulness in a work and a 

 science to which he is devoted with the earnest passion of the practical 

 scholar. 



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