Publisher: Authority of the Board of Regents of the University St. Paul, Minnesota 1899
10,000 copies of this Edition
568 pages -- approx. size: 9.5" by 6.5"

Geological and natural history survey. Report of the survey. Botanical series. Scarce book. Worthy of re-covering.

Conway MacMillan was an American botanist from Minnesota. 1867 - 1929. Macmillan worked at the University of Minnesota until he resigned over the problems with Josephine Tilden's "Minnesota Seaside Station" in Canada. MacMillan headed the research station where 25 to 30 students would study each summer. Under his leadership the land gathered a number of buildings and a three-mile road was built from Port Renfrew to allow access.

His research centered on the flora of Minnesota and plant ecology. Also working as a botanist for the Minnesota Geological Survey and the Natural History Survey he published two important works on the flora of this state: his Metaspermae of the Minnesota Valley (1892) and Minnesota Plant Life (1899). The latter of these was a particularly important and well written ecological contribution to the flora of the USA.

The green cloth covers are in rough condition, showing dirty covers and spine gone. Although the interior book itself is nice and intact. Again, worthy of recovering. There is, both front and back a small lined paper attached to end papers due to the book being a part of the Universities library. The interior looks to be very nice and unmarked.

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