THE COMSTOCK MEMORIAL 
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Please give him my regards and good wishes, and convey to him my high 
appreciation of his helpful influence on the study of nature in America. 
Yours very truly, 
Harrison Garman. 
Carnegie Museum, Department of The Carnegie Institute 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., June 1, 1914. 
President J. G. Schurman, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
My dear Sir: 
I have received the kind invitation of the Committee in charge of the Com¬ 
stock Memorial inviting me to be present on Saturday afternoon, June the 13th, 
1914. It would give me great pleasure to join with others on that occasion in 
doing honor to my esteemed friend, Professor Comstock, whose services as a man 
of science, and especially as an entomologist, have given him world-wide fame. 
Unfortunately, however, it will be impossible for me to accept the invitation owing 
to other demands upon my time which are urgent. 
I am, with sincere regards, 
Yours very truly, 
W. J. Holland, 
Director of the Carnegie Museum. 
(The following letter is from the Professor of Entomology in Leland Stanford 
Junior University): 
Carmel, Calif., June 3, 1914. 
Dear Professor Comstock: 
The formal invitation to the Memorial presentation comes to me here—with 
full effect. 
Whenever I am in Carmel I always get to wondering just how worth while is 
all the straining work at the University. It seems, someway, here, in the face of 
the old trees, the older hills, and the still older ocean, that a man's swift moment 
might be just as well put in at living less strenuously, more wonderingly, and 
more fatalistically; accepting the easy fate of an interested but not too anxious 
spectator of the unrolling of the destiny of the earth and that which on it is. 
But when I am reminded of the twenty-three years of your work that I have 
known in some degree, personally, and of the other eighteen that I know, in 
some measure, about, the "forty-oneyears of active service,” I am pulled together 
with a firm pull—it comes directly from you—and made to see how truly worth 
while "active service” is. 
And, so if I may send my little contribution to you on this occasion, it will 
simply be the naively egoistic one of telling you how much your work and you 
mean to me—to me and my work. Even though I haven’t done much, I should 
have done less if I had not known you, and even though I am not much I should 
have been less than the little that I am had there been no you. 
Always gratefully, your pupil, 
Vernon L. Kellogg. 
The Carmel Cabin. 
