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...batch of old bills and correspondence accompanied a note from Stephen E. Comstock, retired president of Comstock Canneries, Inc. of Newark, N.Y. One letter, dated Dec. i, 1925, said: "Sometimes, just now and then, you make me fearfully tired. It has to do largely with your accounting and record-keeping department." Another was part of an argument over whether a bill had been paid (it had been), in which he wrote on June 23, 1926: "I hesitate to send you the original voucher, because your methods to date persuade me that you are not to be trusted with important documents...
...latest letter, 26 years later, Comstock appears to have had a change of heart about TIME. He writes: "I am an original subscriber to TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE. Believing / can trust you to return them intact, I am sending you herewith ... a few old letters which you may find of interest." (Italics mine...
...termite. When Snyder joined the Department of Agriculture in 1909, the most up-to-date termite catalogue available was one published five years earlier in Belgium. The Belgians had catalogued 400 species. When Snyder published his definitive work on U.S. termites in 1935 (Our Enemy the Termite; Comstock Publishing Co., Inc.), the number of classified species had jumped to 1,915. Last week in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution was selling Snyder's latest work, a paperbound, 490-page publication entitled Catalog of the Termites (Isoptera) of the World-a revised classification of 1,932 species...
...Jordan succeeded Ada Louise Comstock Notestein...
...College, is a room dedicated to Radcliffe in commemoration of the pre-war sister-college relationship between the two schools. A plaque in the room reads, "Veritas: In Knowledge and Love of Truth," words suggested by Radcliffe's affiliation with Harvard, and chosen by ex-Radcliffe President Ada L. Comstock during her visit to Kobe...