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CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
College of Agriculture and Experiment Station, University of Tenn. 
Knoxville, June 2, 1914. 
My dear Prof. Comstock: 
Just a note to express my regret at not being able to attend the exercises 
associated with the presentation of ‘‘The Comstock Memorial.” 
I am very happy over this expression of esteem on the part of your students 
and admiring friends and I shall think of you and Mrs. Comstock on that day. 
You have had more to do with guiding my life than anyone and I always have 
been, and always will be, deeply grateful. 
With sincerest regards and best wishes to Mrs. Comstock and you, I beg to 
remain, 
Cordially yours, 
H. A. Morgan. 
West Virginia University, 
College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Morgantown, June 8, 1914. 
My dear Professor Comstock: 
I am sorry indeed that I cannot be present on Saturday next when our Com¬ 
mittee will deliver to you the slight memorial from the hundreds of students you 
have inspired. I know, however, that it will be a happy occasion, and I feel sure 
that you feel, as we all do, that your retirement from active duties in the Univer¬ 
sity will merely give you more time for devoting yourself to whatever research 
attracts you. 
With kindest regards to you and Mrs. Comstock and with sincere appreciation 
of the great work you have done at Cornell and the good start you gave me per¬ 
sonally, I am, 
Sincerely yours, 
E. D. Sanderson. 
RESOLUTIONS BY THE AUTHORITIES OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
ON THE RETIREMENT OF PROFESSOR J. H. COMSTOCK 
Office of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Cornell University, 
December 17, 1913. 
Professor J. H. Comstock, 
College of Agriculture, Campus, 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
My dear Prof. Comstock: 
I beg to advise you that the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees 
in accepting your resignation have taken the following action: 
‘‘In accepting the foregoing resignation the Trustees congratulate Professor 
Comstock on his long, honorable, and fruitful service to Cornell University, with 
which as student and teacher he has been associated almost without interruption 
since he matriculated as a Freshman, and they bear grateful testimony to his 
success in teaching and in inspiring students, and also in scientific investigation 
