COMSTOCK, ANNA BOTSFORD Ameri can naturalist and wood-engraver, was born at Otto, N.Y., on Sept. I, 1854. She graduated at Chamberlain institute, Randolph, N.Y., in 1873, and at Cornell university in 1878, and studied art at Cooper Union, New York city. In 1878 she married J. H. Com stock (q.v). As a wood-engraver she attained success with nature subjects and exhibited engravings at the World's Columbian ex position at Chicago in 1893 and at other important expositions. She became an influential advocate of nature-study in education and, following a wide experience in university extension work in this field, was made in 1913 assistant professor and in 192o, pro fessor of nature-study in Cornell university. Among her published works are : Ways of the Six-Footed (1903) ; How to Know the Butterflies, with J. H. Comstock (I 9o4) ; Handbook of Nature Study (Ithaca, N.Y., 191 I, 16th ed., 1925) ; The Pet Book (1914) ; Bird, Animal, Tree, and Plant Notebooks (1914) ; and Trees at Leisure (1916) .