In these nine years, Dr. Fernald also filled a number of other 

 important posts. In the summer school of the Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, he served 

 as instructor in invertebrate zoology for 1895-1897; and he was also 

 vice-director during the season of 1897. In 1898-1899, he v^as state 

 zoologist of Pennsylvania. 



When the professorship of entomology at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College was offered to him in the summer of 1899, he 

 saw an opportunity for larger and more distinctive work in ento- 

 mology, and decided to accept the appointment, although it involved 

 heavy financial sacrifice. In collaboration with his father, and with 

 equal responsibility, he entered immediately upon the extension of the 

 undergraduate and the development of the graduate courses in ento- 

 mology. Entirely aside from the personal relationship — which nat- 

 urally insured most sympathetic and harmonious co-operation — these 

 two men were exceptionally well qualified, both by special training 

 and varied experience, to divide the enlarged work of the department 

 of entomology. For many years it had been their practice to pursue 

 such different lines of study as to avoid duplication and to secure 

 what was practically supplemental preparation for united effort. In 

 the division of class work. Dr. Fernald, as the younger man, took 

 practically all of the undergraduate work, and was most known to 

 the junior and senior students. He also took the post-graduate 

 courses in morphology and economic entomology. With the gradual 

 failing in strength of Prof. C. H. Fernald in recent years, more 

 and more of the lecture and laboratory work was assumed by Dr. 

 Fernald, until he was carrying practically all of it, with no assistance 

 except that of one post-graduate student in the laboratories with 

 undergraduate classes, and in some parts of the experiment station 

 work. 



Besides carrying this excessive amount of classroom work. Dr. 

 Fernald served as associate entomologist in the Massachusetts agri- 

 cultural experiment station from 1899, becoming entomologist upon 

 the resignation of his father in 1910. He has also acted as Massa- 

 chusetts state nursery inspector since 1902. 



Although pressed by many and varied duties, he has still found 

 time for considerable systematic work, especially in the orders 

 Hemiptera and Hymenoptera. His published papers have dealt with 

 a wide range of entomological subjects. Though most of them are 

 comparatively brief, they number nearly one hundred articles, listed 

 elsewhere in this pamphlet. 



A review of Dr. Fernald's work at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College cannot omit mention of his part in preparing the general plans 

 for the splendid new building which has recently been completed, and 

 in securing the appropriations needed to construct and equip the 

 building as originally planned. The new building, the best that the 

 state has yet given to the college, will stand as a testimonial to his 



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