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CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
Massachusetts Agricultural College Graduate School, 
Amherst, Mass., June ri, 1914. 
My dear Professor Gage: 
I should be delighted to be present at the Comstock Memorial Exercises, but 
failing health and advancing age make it impossible for me to do so. 
I am very glad indeed that he is to be thus honored on his retirement from 
active duties. Professor Comstock has seemed like a brother to me ever since I 
first knew him. I regard him as by far our best morphological entomologist in 
this country and perhaps in the world. I was delighted when the Entomological 
Society of London elected him an honorary member. 
All honor to so fine a type of man as Prof. J. H. Comstock. 
Sincerely yours, 
C. H. Fernald. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, Department of Entomology, 
Amherst, Mass., June 8, 1914. 
Professor S. H. Gage, 
Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
My dear Sir: 
I greatly regret that I am unable to accept the invitation to be present at the 
Presentation Exercises of the Comstock Memorial, June 13, 1914. Unfortunately 
we shall be in the middle of the closing work of the year and it will be impossible 
for me to get away. 
I regret this the more, as I should otherwise surely be present at the exercises 
and do all in my power to do honor to one who for so many years has been a leader 
in the entomological progress of this country, and who by his own work and also 
through the students he has sent out has had such an influence in its progress. 
I believe that the “Cornell School of Workers” has been a tremendous factor 
in the development of entomology along the best lines, and am glad, in this way 
at least, to offer a word of appreciation of the magnificent work accomplished by 
Professor Comstock during his long service. 
Yours very truly, 
H. T. Fernald. 
(The following letter is from the Professor of Entomology in the State Univer¬ 
sity of Kentucky): 
Lexington, Kentucky, June 6, 1914. 
The Committee in Charge of the Comstock Memorial: 
Dear Sirs: 
I wish to acknowledge with my thanks your kind invitation to be present at 
the presentation exercises of the Comstock Memorial Library Fund and to express 
my regret that I shall be unable to come to Ithaca on an occasion the purpose 
of which meets so entirely my approval. No one connected with the University 
is more worthy of such a testimonial, and the idea of establishing this very 
appropriate memorial while Professor Comstock lives and can enjoy it is 
altogether good. 
