Name Charles Fernald Education Bowdoin College | Doctoral advisor Louis Agassiz Fields Geology, Natural history | |
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Born March 16, 1838
Mount Desert, Maine ( 1838-03-16 ) Institutions University of Maine, University of Massachusetts Amherst Alma mater Bowdoin College
University of Maine
Anderson School of Natural History Known for Work on the eradication of the Gypsy moth, first college-level teacher of economic entomology Spouse Maria Elizabeth Fernald (1862-1919) Died February 22, 1921, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Books The Sphingidae of New England | ||
Charles Henry Fernald (March 15, 1838 – February 22, 1921) 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.
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