contribution of FernaldFernald studied the same floral regions (northeastern United States) as did his famous predecessor, the 19th-century botanist Asa Gray, and he prepared the centennial edition of Gray’s Manual of Botany (1950), one of the best books ever written on the flora of the United States. In 1925 Fernald made a major contribution to glacial geology by refuting the popular theory that nearly all of...
discussed in biography...region. His most widely used book, Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, from New England to Wisconsin and South to Ohio and Pennsylvania Inclusive (1848), commonly called Gray’s Manual, has remained, in successive editions, a standard work in this subject.
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