an article on Hymenoptera in the "Standard Natural History" (Boston, 1884).
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He also did work in insect morphology and is best known as the co-proposer of the Comstock-Needham system with James George Needham.
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The Comstock–Needham system is a naming system for insect wing veins, devised by John Comstock and George Needham in 1898.
He was the author of hundreds of generic and specific names in a multitude of families and also the author of American Spiders, as well as editor of a later revised printing of John Henry Comstock's Spider Book. During his tenure as Curator of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History he was the usual authority quoted when any question on spiders arose.