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DAVID FAIRCHILD CHECKLIST


                    A    ITEMS

    001:  THE BOOK OF MONSTERS ( with Fairchild, Marian ).  Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1914.

    002:  EXPLORING FOR PLANTS.   New York: Macmillan, 1930.

    003:  THE WORLD WAS MY GARDEN; TRAVELS OF A PLANT EXPLORER.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. Assisted by Elizabeth and Alfred Kay.

    004:  GARDEN ISLANDS OF THE GREAT EAST.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943.

    005:  THE WORLD GROWS ROUND MY DOOR; THE STORY OF THE KAMPONG, A HOME ON THE EDGE OF THE TROPICS.    New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947.
 

        B ITEMS      Magazines (a sampling)

    001:  The Youth’s Companion. New England Edition. April 27, 1911. The Real Pioneers.

    002:  National Geographic Magazine. Volume XXIV, Number 5; May 1913. Monsters of Our Back Yards.    With 30 illustrations.

    003:  National Geographic Magazine. April 1918. Forming New Fashions in Food.

    004:  National Geographic Magazine. July 1919. A Hunter of Plants.    With 18 illustrations.

    005:  National Geographic Magazine. Volume XLI, Number 2; February 1922. The Jungles of Panama.

    006:  National Geographic Magazine. May 1930. Hunting For Plants in the Canary Islands.

    007:  National Geographic Magazine. December 1934. Hunting Useful Plants in the Caribbean.
 

                            Forewards  (a sampling)

    001:  Sturrock, David and Menninger, Edwin A. Shade And Ornamental Trees For South Florida and Cuba.   (no place): (no publisher), 1946.

    002:  Morton, Kendal and Morton, Julia. Fifty Tropical Fruits of Nassau.   Coral Gables, FL: Text House, 1946.
 

                           Biographies  (a sampling)
 

    001: Jewett, Frances L. and McCausland, Clare L. Plant Hunters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

    002: Williams, Beryl and Epstein, Samuel. Plant Explorer. New York: Julian Messner, 1961.

    003: Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. Adventures in a Green World - the Story of David Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop. Coconut Grove, FL: Field Research Projects, 1973.

    004: Zuckerman, Bertram. The Kampong; The Fairchilds’ Tropical Paradise. ( No place ): The National Tropical Botanical Garden and Fairchild Tropical Garden, 1993.
 



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