Guide to the Cornell University Press and Comstock Publishing Company Records,
[ca. 1880-1935]

Collection Number: 35-6-257

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Martin Heggestad, October 2002
Date modified:
Jude Corina, March 2013

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cornell University Press and Comstock Publishing Company records, [ca. 1880-1935]
Collection Number:
35-6-257
Creator:
Cornell University Press.
Quantity:
9.5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and illustrative material.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and illustrative material pertaining to books published by the Cornell University Press and the Comstock Publishing Company; correspondence pertaining to a merger of the Nature Study Review and Nature Magazine; and correspondence pertaining to John W. ("Uncle John") Spencer's stories and letters for children on nature study and rural life; correspondents include Anna Botsford Comstock, Mary Eleanor Davis, Paul S. Galtsoff, Albert H. Hartzell, Frank E. Lutz, James G. Needham, Arthur Newton Pack, Cuthbert W. Pound, Percival S. Ridsdale, John W. Spencer, and Paul S. Welch.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and illustrative material pertaining to books published by the Cornell University Press and the Comstock Publishing Company; correspondence pertaining to a merger of the Nature Study Review and Nature Magazine; and correspondence pertaining to John W. ("Uncle John") Spencer's stories and letters for children on nature study and rural life; correspondents include Anna Botsford Comstock, Mary Eleanor Davis, Paul S. Galtsoff, Albert H. Hartzell, Frank E. Lutz, James G. Needham, Arthur Newton Pack, Cuthbert W. Pound, Percival S. Ridsdale, John W. Spencer, and Paul S. Welch.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University Press.
Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
Davis, Mary Eleanor, 1910-1968.
Galtsoff, Paul Simon, 1887-
Hartzell, Albert H.
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943.
Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1956.
Pack, Arthur Newton, 1893-
Pound, Cuthbert Winfred, 1864-1935.
Ridsdale, Percival Sheldon.
Spencer, John W.
Welch, Paul Smith, 1882-
Comstock Publishing Company.

Titles:
Nature study review.
Nature magazine.

Subjects:
University presses--New York (State)--Ithaca.
Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--Ithaca.
Natural history--Study and teaching.
Natural history literature.
Nature stories.
Country life.
Children--Books and reading.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Cornell University Press and Comstock Publishing Company records, #35-6-257. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Compendium correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
Compendium abstracts
Box 1 Folder 2
Compendium page proofs
Box 1 Folder 3
Compendium odds and ends
Box 1 Folder 4
Compendium galley proofs
Box 1 Folder 5
Illustrations
Box 1 Folder 6
List of addresses on 3x5 cards
Box 1 Folder 7
Comstock photos, 1932-1933 (S-T)
 Box 2 Folder 1
Original proof of Fig. 31 of Culture Methods
Box 2 Folder 2
Proofs of "Wings of Insects"
 Box 2 Folder 3
Proofs, pictures, etc. of Hahn, Applied Biochemistry
Box 2 Folder 4
Letter concerning "Organized Play"
 Box 3 Folder 1
Acknowledgments to Comstock's Introduction to Entomology ( Dec. 10, 1924 ) [Transferred to Boxes 10-12]
Box 3 Folder 2
Picture proofs for Sweetman: Biological Control of Insects
Box 3 Folder 3
Carbon copy of An Introduction to Entomology, Part I
Box 3 Folder 4
Copy of An Introduction to Entomology, Ch. 1
Box 3 Folder 5
Table of contents for An Introduction to Entomology
Box 3 Folder 6
Ch. 4, An Introduction to Entomology
Box 3 Folder 7
Table of figures, An Introduction to Entomology
Box 3 Folder 8
Illustrations for An Introduction to Entomology
Box 3 Folder 9
"Wings of Spidoptera"
 Box 3 Folder 10
"Wing of Diptera)
 Box 3 Folder 11
Box of negatives on glass from the McMillan Co. to Prof. Comstock
Box 3 Folder 12
"Duplicate prints" negatives on glass
 Box 3 Folder 13
Personal negatives of photographs, on glass
 Box 3 Folder 14
Engraved steel plate--flower
 Box 3 Folder 15
"Wings of Lepidoptera"
 Box 3 Folder 16
Reprint from Fortune--The Univ. of Chicago, Hutchinson's "new look"
Box 3 Folder 17
Clippings from a publisher's journal
 Box 3 Folder 18
Miscellaneous illustrations
 Box 4
Practical Course in Touch Typing
Box 5 Folder 1
Illustrations (for An Introduction to Entomology?)
Box 5 Folder 2
First copy, An Introduction to Entomology
Box 5 Folder 3
Proofs of figures, An Introduction to Entomology
Box 5 Folder 4
Illustrations (for An Introduction to Entomology)
Box 5 Folder 5
Resolutions of the faculty of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell upon the retirement of Anna Comstock
Box 5 Folder 6
"The Wings," first draft for An Introduction to Entomology
Box 5 Folder 7
Copy, An Introduction to Entomology, ch. 3
Box 5 Folder 8
Legends for figures, An Introduction to Entomology
Box 5 Folder 9
Illustrations (for An Introduction to Entomology)
Box 5 Folder 10
Original drawings for figures, An Introduction to Entomology, Pt. II
Box 5 Folder 11
Duplicate prints, spiders
 Box 5 Folder 12
An Introduction to Entomology, draft, ch. 4
Box 5 Folder 13
Original drawings for the illustrations, An Introduction to Entomology, Pt. I
Box 5 Folder 14
List of legends (for An Introduction to Entomology?)
Box 5 Folder 15
First copy, An Introduction to Entomology, ch. 2
Box 5 Folder 16
Illustrations (for An Introduction to Entomology?)
Box 5 Folder 17
Lore of an Adirondack County by E. F. Cutting, galley proofs
Box 5 Folder 18
Proof of Islandica, Vol. 26
Box 6 Folder 1
The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 57, 1925
Box 6 Folder 2
Cut of T. O. Howard
 Box 6 Folder 3
Proof of figures for Cortner: Selected Topics in Colloidal Chemistry
Box 6 Folder 4
Revision of Handbook
 Box 6 Folder 5
Manuscript of The Spider Book
Box 6 Folder 6
Biological Control of Insects, proof
Box 6 Folder 7
Proof, H. J. Davenport: Economics of Alfred Marshall
Box 6 Folder 8
Hahn: Applied Radiochemistry, proof
Box 6 Folder 9
"Poor Collin's Proof, Ainsworth"
 Box 6 Folder 10
Pauling's manuscript: "Nature of the Chemical Bond"
 Box 7 Folder 1
An Introduction to Entomology, Pt. II, first copy
Box 8
Proofs of Engravings for "Daniel's Book"
 Box 9
Three 4" boxes of letters, one dated, two undated: Comstock correspondence concerning "Nature" magazine; "Uncle John" letters; Jack and Jill stories for publication in monthly Grange Review
Box 10-12
Wooden cases of slides
 Box 13-21