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Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York. 1931. 591 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Reprinted. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and the front baord. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (sunning present to the spine). Previous owner\'s name present to the FFEP. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 – August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important. David Fairchild 1931 Exploring For Plants USDA Allison Vincent Armour Expedition David Fairchild 1931 Exploring For Plants USDA Allison Vincent Armour Expedition
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Exploring For Plants
By
David Fairchild
From Notes Of The Allison Vincent Armour Expeditions For The United States Department Of Agriculture, 1925, 1926, And 1927
Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York. 1931. 591 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Reprinted.
Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and the front baord. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (sunning present to the spine). Previous owner\'s name present to the FFEP. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 – August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important.
Fairchild was born in Lansing, Michigan, and was raised in Manhattan, Kansas. He was a member of the Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild of Stratford, Connecticut. He graduated from Kansas State College of Agriculture (B.A. 1888, M.S. 1889) where his father, George Fairchild, was president. He continued his studies at Iowa State and at Rutgers with his uncle, Byron Halsted, a noted biologist. He received an honorary D.Sc. degree from Oberlin College in 1915.
Barbour Lathrop, a wealthy world traveler, persuaded Fairchild to become a plant explorer for the US Department of Agriculture. Lathrop and another wealthy patron, Allison Armour, financed some of Fairchild\'s many explorations for new plants to be introduced into the U.S. Fairchild was the author of a number of popular books on his plant collecting expeditions. Of those early travels, Fairchild wrote, \"I am glad that I saw a few of the quiet places of the world before the coming of automobiles ...\".
For many years Fairchild managed the Office of Seed and Plant Introduction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. One accomplishment was to help introduce the cherry trees from Japan to Washington. He is also credited with introducing kale, quinoa and avocados to Americans. In 1898 he established the introduction garden for tropical plants in Miami, Florida. In 1905 he married Marian, younger daughter of Alexander Graham Bell. Fairchild was a member of the board of trustees of the National Geographic Society, and an officer in what is now called the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
In 1926, the Fairchilds built a home on an 8-acre (32,000 m2) parcel on Biscayne Bay in Coconut Grove, Florida. They named it \"The Kampong\", after similar family compounds in Java, Indonesia, where Fairchild had spent so many happy days collecting plants. He covered this property with an extraordinary collection of rare tropical trees and plants and eventually wrote a book about the place, entitled \"The World Grows Round my Door\". In 1984, The Kampong became part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden. In 1938, he was honored by having the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables named after him.
Fairchild was a member of the board of regents of the University of Miami from 1929 to 1933. For three of those years he was chairman of the board. In 1933 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
His son, Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild lived and worked as a research entomologist for 33 years at the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in the Republic of Panama. A daughter, Nancy Bell, married another entomologist, Marston Bates, author of many books on natural history. She herself wrote a book about living in rural Colombia during the 1940s: \"East of the Andes and West of Nowhere\".
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