lection of American insects, for comparison. He was most kindly 

 received by foreign entomologists, among whom he made many life- 

 long friends. His studies in these museums gave him the basis for 

 his "Catalog of the Tortricidse of North America." 



The winter of 1879 he spent in Washington, D. C, in a study 

 of the Microlepidoptera. The results of these studies appeared in the 

 annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1880. The 

 United States Entomologist, Prof. J. H. Comstock, was making a 

 study of North American scale insects, and in connection with this 

 work Prof. Fernald became deeply interested in the Coccidse. At 

 this time also, began his intimate acquaintance with Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, who was beginning his entomological work in the national 

 Department of Agriculture, through which he has achieved such 

 noteworthy success. 



Other institutions now began to seek Prof. Fernald. The Iowa 

 Agricultural College invited him to become its president. For some 

 time he refused all offers. In 1886, however, he accepted the appoint- 

 ment as Professor of Zoology and Lecturer on Veterinary Science 

 at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. In recognition of the 

 breadth and the quality of his work, the trustees of the Maine state 

 college conferred upon him the degree of Ph. D. It is characteristic 

 of the modesty of the man that he was always restive under the title 

 of "Doctor," and preferred to be called and known by the simpler 

 "Professor." 



In the new position, Prof. Fernald found abundant opportunities 

 for work, and but little material equipment. For his departments, 

 tw^o rooms were assigned in South College, then a new building. One 

 of these was a lecture room, and the other was to contain the Natural 

 History Museum. For laboratory work, no provision had been made, 

 in either zoology or entomology ; zoological laboratory work was begun 

 in a borrowed room. The zoological specimens remained in the attic 

 of the drill hall, where they had been hurriedly stored after the burn- 

 ing of the old South College building in 1885. Labels and specimens 

 were in confusion. Practically all of the specimens had to be deter- 

 mined anew. In this and the work of rearranging the specimens, 

 Mrs. Fernald was of great assistance. 



When in 1887, the experiment station was established. Prof. 

 Fernald was made Entomologist, an appointment that added largely 

 to his duties. In the summer of 1889 he went to Europe for further 

 study in the museums, and while there was notified that the Gypsy 

 Moth had been discovered in the eastern part of Massachusetts. He 

 thereafter devoted all the time possible to the study of this insect in 

 the different countries visited. In the organization of the state 

 commission for the suppression of the moth, Prof. Fernald was 

 given the supervision of the scientific part of the work. He made 

 extensive studies, and has published a number of very valuable reports 

 on the Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths. 



