The Sherwood Fox Arboretum
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DR. W. SHERWOOD FOX Dr. W. Sherwood Fox was The University of Western Ontario's third president from 1927-1947. Dr. Fox had a keen interest in botany and the rest of the natural world. The book, Sherwood Fox of Western, Reminiscences of William Sherwood Fox, published by Burns and MacEachern Ltd, Toronto, 1964, is a well-written account of his life and details Sherwood Fox's many interests. After reading it, one understands why the Sherwood Fox Arboretum was so named. |
Other publications by W. Sherwood Fox
- Mythology of Greece and Rome*, 1917
- Sources of the Grave-Scene in Hamlet*, 1923
- Letters of William Davies, Toronto (1854-1861)*, 1945
- A Century of Service: a History of the Talbot Street Baptist Church, 1845-1945, 1945
- "Tain't Runnin' No More: the Story of Grand Bend, the Pinery and the Old River Bed, 1946
- Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings on Ontario Trees*, 1948-1950
- St. Ignace: Canadian Altar of Martyrdom, 1949
- The Bruce Beckons: the Story of Lake Huron's Great Peninsula, 1952
- On Friendship, 1953
- Silken Lines and Silver Hooks: a Life-Long Fisherman Recounts His Catch, 1954
- Some Trees and Shrubs of the Carolinian Zone of Southern Ontario*, with James H. Soper, 1952-1954
- 'Tain't Runnin' No More-Twenty Years After: the Story of Grand Bend and the Pinery and the Watershed of the Aux Sables River, 1958
Most of these publications are holdings in both the UWO library system and the London Public Library system; those marked with an asterisk are held only at Western.
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June 6, 2005
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