> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 144](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259648) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12057614) QID Q12057614 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fernald, Charles Henry (1838-1921), American entomologist, born 16 Mar 1838 at Fernald's Point, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, educated at Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent Hills, Maine, Ensign U.S. Navy 1862-1865 (i.e. during the Civil War), principal, Litchfield Academy 1865 and then Houlton Academy 1866 (both in Maine), A.M. (Hon.) 1871 Bowdoin Coll., Brunswick, Maine, chair of natural history, Maine State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now Univ. of Maine at Orono) 1871-1886, Prof. of Zoology 1886 and Acting President 1892, Mass. Agricultural College (now Univ. of Mass. at Amherst), retired 1910, died 22 Feb 1921 in Amherst, Mass. **Abbreviated name**: *C.H. Fernald* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MAINE|MAINE]] (few). – Univ. of Mass. at Amherst (Charles H. Fernald papers, 1869-1963). #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 3: 219; Barnhart 1: 536; BM 2: 566, 6: 321; CSP 9: 848, 12: 235, 14: 970; DAB 7: 846-847; Kew 2: 254; Rehder 3: 187; Tucker 1: 244. #### Biofile - Anon., Nature 107: 114. 1921. - Baker, H.P. et al., 1937. Fernald Club Yearb. (Mass. State Coll.) 6: 2-14. \[CHF Commemoration Exercises\] - Braun, A.F., 1921. Entomol. News 32: 129-133. - Burgess, A.F., 1921. J. Econ. Entomol. 14: 242-243. (portr.) - Carpenter, M.M., 1953. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 50: 285. - Dörfler, I., 1902. Botaniker-Adressbuch, ed. 2: 249. - \[Engelmann, W.\], 1891. Botanisches Adressbuch: 127. - Gilbert, P. 1977. A compendium of the biographical literature on deceased entomologists: 116. - Howard, L.O., 1910. Science, ser. 2, 32(831): 769-775. - Mallis, A., 1971. Amer. Entomologists: 543. (index) (portr. p. 142) - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske (eds.), 1898. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biogr. 2: 434. ### Publications ##### n.34.297. grasses **Title** The *grasses* of *Maine*. Designed for the use of students of the Maine State College, and the farmers of the State... Augusta \[Maine\] (Sprague & Son, Printers to the State) 1885. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1885 (date on cover-t.p., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 10 Aug 1886, Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 25 Dec 1885, Nat. Nov. Oct (1) 1885), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-70, *pl. 1-42* (uncol. lith.). *Copies*: HH(2), K (n.v.), MO(2), NY, US(2). *Microfilm*: (1) Ithaca, New York (Cornell Univ.), 1996, (NYS Natural History Project, Botany monographs; reel 11). *Copy*: (n.v.); (2) Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard College Library Imaging Services), 2001, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: HH (n.v.). *Note*: The plates are taken from G. Vasey, *Grass. U.S.*... 1883 (TL-2/6, nr. 15.926). *Ref*.: Anon., Bot. Gaz. 10(9-10): 377. Oct 1885 (rev.).