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John Gill Lemmon
"John Gill Lemmon, a native of early Michigan, grew to manhood during an era of increasing sectional controversy in the United States that led to its Civil War. The difficulties faced by the Lemmons were experienced by many of pioneers who moved to the frontier in that era. The Lemmons were a family of strong moral convictions, particularly concerning slavery. As an abolitionist, John considered it his duty to defend the Union. He interrupted his education and burgeoning career as a school teacher/administrator to join a volunteer cavalry regiment raised in Michigan in 1862. Like many farm boys who joined the Northern and Southern armies with little immunity from the communicable diseases th...
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The Forgotten Botanist
WILLA Literary Award Winner in Creative Nonfiction 2022 Spur Award Winner 2022 Top Pick in Southwest Books of the Year New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist in Cover Design Honorable Mention in the At-Large NFPW Communications Contest The Forgotten Botanist is the account of an extraordinary woman who, in 1870, was driven by ill health to leave the East Coast for a new life in the West--alone. At thirty-three, Sara Plummer relocated to Santa Barbara, where she taught herself botany and established the town's first library. Ten years later she married botanist John Gill Lemmon, and together the two discovered hundreds of new plant species, many of them illustrated by Sara, an accomplished a...
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California, 1876, [numbers 1-437 (not Inclusive)].
Field notes Vol. 894 documents Charles Christopher Parry's botanical collecting in southern California in 1876, with co-collector John Gill Lemmon. The pages contain a list of specimen numbers 1-437 (not inclusive), collected in 1876 in southern California in the San Bernardino region. The list contains only specimen number and plant name. Accompanying the manuscript is a printout of an article by S.B. Parish entitled Parry and southern California botany, from The Plant world, 1909, xii, pages 158-162.
How to Tell the Trees and Forest Endowment of Pacific Slope
This comprehensive guide to the trees and forests of the Pacific Slope offers a wealth of information for naturalists, hikers, and anyone interested in the rich ecological diversity of this region. Written by accomplished botanists John Gill Lemmon and Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon, it provides detailed descriptions, illustrations, and distribution maps for hundreds of tree species, as well as insights into their ecology and uses. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
How to Tell the Trees and Forest Endowment of Pacific Slope (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from How to Tell the Trees and Forest Endowment of Pacific Slope Some Hints upon Forestry, issued for the California Federation of Women's Clubs, in 1900, contained the following suggested top ics for study and discussion: I. Forest trees, their names, appearance, habits, manner of growth, uses, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
