Anna Botsford Comstock

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Anna Botsford Comstock


Born
in Otto, New York, The United States
September 01, 1854

Died
August 24, 1930


Anna Botsford Comstock (1854-1930) was an acclaimed author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), is now in its 24th edition. Comstock was an American artist and wood engraver known for illustrating entomological text books with her her husband, John Henry Comstock including their first joint effort, The Manual for the Study of Insects (1885). She wrote Confessions To A Heathen Idol, published in 1906, under the name Marian Lee. ...more

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The Handbook of Nature Study

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Trees at Leisure

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How to Keep Bees

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Confessions to a Heathen Idol

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“I look upon a year lived as a year earned; and each year earned means a greater treasury of experience and power laid up against time of need.”
Anna Botsford Comstock

“Nature-study cultivates in the child a love of the beautiful . . . a perception of color, form and music . . But more than all, nature-study gives the child a sense of companionship with life out-of-doors and an abiding love of nature.”
Anna Botsford Comstock, The Handbook of Nature Study

“The child should never be required  to learn the name of anything in the nature-study work; but the name should be used so often and so naturally in his presence, that he will learn it without being conscious of the process”
Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study

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