Comstocks of Cornell—the Definitive Autobiography

Karen Penders St. Clair is an independent researcher and holds a position in the School of Integrated Plant Science and Horticulture at Cornell University.

• 1. The Boyhood of John Henry Comstock, 1849-18652. A Sailor and a Scholar3. Undergraduate Days at Cornell, 1870-18744. Anna Botsford-Childhood and Girlhood5. A University Professorship and Marriage, 1876-18796. Entomologist to U.S. Department of Agriculture (Life in Washington as United States Entomologist, 1879-1881)7. Return to Cornell8. The Year 1888-1889; With a Winter in Germany9. California and Stanford University10. The Nature Study Movement at Cornell University; A Journey South to Study Spiders11. "How to Know Butterflies" and the "Confessions to a Heathen Idol"12. A Sabbatical Year Abroad-Egypt and Greece13. Italy, Switzerland, and Home14. Chapter 15: 1908-1912, Cornell's New Quarters for Entomology and Nature Study15. The Two hundred and Fiftieth-anniversary Celebration of the Royal Society and The International Entomological Congress16. The 65th Milestone and Retirement17. Florida and Retirement18. The Toronto Meeting of the A.A.A.S. 1922. A surprising election and voyage westward.19. Honolulu and Happiness, A Voyage to Europe20. MentoneEditor's Epilogue

Currently an independent scholar based in Rochester, New York, St. Clair hopes the upcoming volume will give readers a better sense of what Anna was truly like, beyond the familiar tropes of her status as Cornell's first female professor, a leading scientific illustrator, and an early advocate of nature education.(Cornell Alumni Magazine)