the world. Among the more important of his pubHcations on this 

 group have been "A Catalog of the Tortricidse of North America," 

 "The Crambidse of North America," "The Pterophoridse of North 

 America," and "The Genera of the Tortricidse and Their Types." 

 Other important papers are in process of completion. 



A summary in brief of the work of a man who has achieved dis- 

 tinction in so many ways as has the subject of this sketch, must be 

 inadequate. Perhaps he will longest be remembered as one of the 

 great pioneer teachers of entomology; a man of highest Christian 

 character : broad and sound in scholarship ; rare in inspirational 

 power. In economic entomology his greatest work has been done in 

 the fight against the Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths ; it has been unex- 

 celled in the breadth and clearness of its conception of the problems, 

 and in practical efficacy of methods. As a systematic entomologist, 

 he has done work of the highest type in a large and difficult field. 



We catch a hint of Prof. Fernald's own view of his work and 

 of the motives which have guided him in it, in a few sentences from 

 a recent letter of his to a friend : 



"It has been a very great satisfaction to me to see entomology 

 grow during the past forty years of my teaching, from a few lectures 

 which I should now be ashamed to give to a class in a grammar 

 school, into a thoroughly scientific course, with laboratory and research 

 work of the most technical character, and appealing to and command- 

 ing the respect, not only of our own students but also of scientific 

 men everywhere. 



"There has been nothing in the work of my life that has given 

 me greater pleasure than to see. from day to day and from year to 

 year, the intellectual growth of the young men under my instruction, 

 and later to learn of their successes in the great work of life. I have 

 often wondered if I made a mistake in resigning from the navy at 

 the close of the Civil War, rather than to have remained as did many 

 of the volunteer officers, like myself; in which case, I should have 

 been retired a few years ago with the rank of Rear Admiral. But 

 I have consoled myself with the thought that it is better to help make 

 men than to help kill them." 



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