Excerpt from Three Scientists of Chester County When the final story of forest conservation comes to be told, amongst the valuable sources of material, I think, will be found these booklets. They portray intimately the lives of three men through whose work, though of course not through theirs alone, the great idea developed. Humphry Marshall collected trees when trees, over much of the settled part of the state were almost a menace to the settlers. William Darlington made men and women conscious of the interest and beauty of the simple plants of forest, pasture and meadow. Joseph Rothrock fought the good fight, and won the battle for the care, restoration and enjoyment of the forests of this Forest Land of Penn. It is well that a sympathetic lover of the woods, a reverent and loving student of the past, with the power to write clearly and with distinguished charm, should have been willing to gather the story of these men, for the Chester County Historical Society. S. C. Schmucker, Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences, State Teachers College, West Chester, Pa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.