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Book Description Cornell University Press, United States, 1986. Paperback. Condition: New. Revised ed. Language: English. Brand new Book. A matchless handbook for decades, this classic work has been the natural history bible for countless teachers and others who seek information about their environment. Written originally for those elementary school teachers who knew little of common plants and animals, and even less about the earth beneath their feet and the skies overhead, this book is for the most part as valid and helpful today as it was when first written in 1911-and revised in the spirit of its authors by a group of naturalists in 1939. After all, dandelions, toads, robins, and constellations have changed little since then! And modern society's concern with the quality of life and the impact of people on soil, water, and wildlife makes this book even more relevant. Nature-study, as used in this handbook, encompasses all living things except humans, as well as all nonliving things such as rocks and minerals, the heavens, and weather. Of the living things described, most are common in the northeastern states, and many, such as the dandelion, milkweed, and mullein, and the house mouse, muskrat, and red fox, are so widespread that people living outside the United States will recognize them easily.Anna Botsford Comstock very appropriately took the view that we should know first and best the things closest to us. Only then, when we have an intimate knowledge of our neighbors, should we, journey farther afield to learn about more distant things. Teachers and children will find the material in this book invaluable in that regard. Details of the most common, but in some ways the most interesting, things are brought out, first by careful, nontechnical descriptions of the things themselves and later by thoughtful questions and study units. Because the most common things are treated in greatest detail, materials for study are easy to find. Whether the reader lives in the inner city or in the rural outback, the handbook is a treasure trove of information. A teacher does not need to know much about nature to use this handbook. The information is there for the novice and the expert alike. All that is needed is an inquiring mind, senses to observe, and a willingness to think about nature on a personal level. To enter this book in search of information about any common organism, stone, or object in the sky is to open the door to a fresh and lively acquaintance with one's environment. Seller Inventory # AAJ9780801493843

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Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930) was an American artist, educator, conservationist, and a leader of the nature study movement.

Early life and education[edit]

Anna Botsford was born in Otto, New York, to Marvin and Phebe Irish Botsford. Comstock grew up on her parents' farm, where she and her Quaker mother spent time together examining the wildflowers, birds, and trees.

Comstock attended the Chamberlain Institute and Female College, a Methodist school in Randolph, New York, after which she returned to Otto and taught for a year.

In 1874, Comstock entered Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She left Cornell after two years. In 1878, at the age of 24, she married John Henry Comstock, a young entomologist on the Cornell faculty who sparked her interest in insectillustration.^[1]

Career[edit]

Throughout her life, Comstock illustrated her husband's lectures and publications on insects. She had no formal training in this illustration; she would study an insect under a microscope then draw it. While her husband was chief entomologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1879 to 1881, she prepared the drawings for his 1880 Report of the Entomologist on citrus scale insects. She then reentered Cornell and received a degree in natural history in 1885. She studied wood engraving at Cooper Union, New York City, so she could prepare illustrations for her husband's book Introduction to Entomology in 1888.^[2] Also in 1888, she was one of the first four women admitted to Sigma Xi, a national honor society for the sciences.^[3]

Comstock made engravings for the more than 600 plates used in the Manual for the Study of Insects (1895), Insect Life (1897), and How to Know the Butterflies (1904),^[4] the first written by her husband and the latter two co-authored by them. Her engravings appeared in the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, and in the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1900.^[2] She was a member of the Society of American Wood-Engravers, and has been recognized as its most prolific producer of original (as opposed to reproductive) images.^[5]

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Anna Botsford Comstock both wrote and illustrated several books, including Ways of the Six-Footed (1903),^[6]How to Keep Bees (1905), The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), The Pet Book (1914),^[7] and Trees at Leisure (1916).^[8] She also wrote the novel Confessions to a Heathen Idol (1906).^[9][10] The horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey and her husband both told her they expected The Handbook of Nature Study to lose money, but it became a standard textbook for teachers and was later translated into eight languages, with over twenty printings. It is still in print.^[11]

Comstock is most famous for being one of the first to bring her students and other teachers out-of-doors to study nature. In 1895, she was appointed to the New York State Committee for the Promotion of Agriculture. In this position, she planned and implemented an experimental course of nature study for the public schools. The program was approved for statewide use through the extension service of Cornell. She then wrote and spoke on behalf of the program, helped train teachers, and prepared classroom materials. Starting in 1897, she taught nature study at Cornell. Comstock was the first female professor at Cornell. However, she was denied full professorship for twenty years until 1920. (In 1911, Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose became the first women with full professorship at Cornell.)

Comstock edited Nature-Study Review from 1917 to 1923, and she was on the staff of Country Life in America.

Anna Botsford's autobiography was published in 1953 by Comstock Publishing Associates (Ithaca, NY), titled The Comstocks of Cornell: John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock.

Later life and legacy[edit]

In 1922, Comstock retired from Cornell as professor emerita but continued to teach in the summer session. In 1923, the League of Women Voters chose Anna Botsford Comstock and her Cornell colleague, Martha Van Rensselaer, as two of the twelve greatest living American women to have 'contributed most in their respective fields for the betterment of the world.'^[12]

Comstock died in Ithaca, New York in 1930.^[3] In 1988, she was inducted into the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Hall of Fame.

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References[edit]

1. ^Golemba, Beverly E. (1992). Lesser-Known Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Boulder u.a.: Rienner. p. 157. ISBN978-1-55587-301-1.
2. ^ ^abBrandt, William H (2009). Interpretative wood-engraving: the history of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. New Castle (Delaware): Oak Knoll Press. p. 108. OCLC932587607.
3. ^ ^abBrandt, William (2009). Interpretive Wood-Engraving: The Story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press. p. 108. ISBN978-1-58456-267-2.
4. ^Comstock, John Henry and Anna Botsford (1904). How to Know the Butterflies. New York: D. Appleton and Co. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
5. ^Brandt, William H (2009). Interpretative wood-engraving: the history of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. New Castle (Delaware): Oak Knoll Press. p. 27. OCLC932587607.
6. ^Comstock, Anna Botsford (1903). Ways of the Six-Footed (First ed.). Boston: Ginn & Company. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
7. ^Comstock, Anna Botsford (1914). The Pet Book (Second ed.). Comstock Publishing Company. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
8. ^Comstock, Anna Botsford (1916). Trees at Leisure. Ithaca, New York: Comstock Publishing Co. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
9. ^Comstock, Anna Botsford (1909). Confessions to a Heathen Idol. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
10. ^Comstock, Anna Botsford (1911). Confessions to a Heathen Idol. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
11. ^Comstock, Anna Botsford (1986). Handbook of Nature Study (First with a Foreword by Verne N. Rockcastle ed.). Ithaca, New York: Comstock Associates/ Cornell University Press. ISBN978-0-8014-9384-3. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
12. ^Cornell University. Class of 1877. Record of the Class of 1877: June 1873 to June 1923. Ithaca, N.Y., 1923, p. 109.

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