Word: entomologist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well known as a writer of novelettes; "The Gift of Fernseed," a fanciful tale by H. P. Robinson, and "Under which King," by Miss Harriet W. Preston. The number also contains several interesting essays, among which are "Butterflies in Disguise," by Samuel H. Scudder, the well-known Cambridge entomologist. "A Plea for Humor," by Agnes Repplier, a thoughtful article on politics entitled "The Spirit of American Politics as shown in the Late Election," by Charles W. Clark, and "Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries." The poetry of the number is "Brianda de Bardaxi," by Henry C. Lea, which...
...Gore Hall, and numbered at that time about 41,000 volumes, and had a fund with a total income of $250 a year. In the same year Mr. Sibley became assistant librarian. Fifteen years later, at the death of the librarian, Dr. Thaddeus William Harris, known widely as an entomologist, Mr. Sibley succeeded to the position of librarian. In 1877, when Mr. Sibley resigned and became librarian Emeritus, the library contained 164,000 volumes and nearly as many pamphlets, and the permanent fund' formerly $5000, had been increased...
...Tyler has been called to the Associate Professorship of History; Prof. J. Berkitt Webb returns from a four years' sojourn in Germany to the department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Mechanics; Prof. Willard Fiske, from his two years' travels abroad; and Prof. J. Henry Comstock from the position of entomologist to the U. S. government. Lectures have been delivered before the students by Professors E. A. Freeman, Chas. Kendall Adams, non-resident Professor of English Constitutional History; Henry C. Adams, non-resident Professor of Political Economy; Herbert Tuttle, non-resident Professor of International Law, and Prof. Ely of Johns Hopkins...