Charles H. Fernald
Charles Henry Fernald was an American entomologist, geologist, and zoologist, who is credited as the first college professor of economic entomology. Fernald grew up at Fernald Point in Mount Desert, Maine, and went on to prepare for college at Maine Wesleyan Seminary before joining the navy in 1862. After receiving a master's degree from Bowdoin College he went on to serve as principal of several academies in Maine. Throughout his career he would document and describe several species of microlepidoptera and in 1886 became the first full-time professor and chair of the natural sciences at what is now the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fernald Hall and the Fernald Entomological Society at the same institution, are named for him and his son, Henry Torsey Fernald, who would later hold the same position as his father. His wife, Maria Elizabeth Fernald, was a noted entomologist in her own right.
Selected works
Textbooks
- , coauthored with Edward H. Forbrush
- , contributor
- , coauthored with Archie H. Kirkland
Bulletins
- , Bulletin No. 2, Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
- , Bulletin No. 3, Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
- , Bulletin No. 5, Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
- , Bulletin No. 19, Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
- , Bulletin No. 24, Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
- , Special Bulletin, Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College
Articles
- , published in The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XIV, No. 9
- , published in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. X
- , a presidential address given before the American Association of Economic Entomologists, republished in Science, Vol. IV, No. 94