Charles Russell Orcutt Resources:

Books and Pamphlets

Charles never wrote a book, although both his three-volume American Plants (1909-1912) at 538 pages (or 1,076 numbered columns) and Molluscan World Vol. 1 (1915; only one volume was printed) at 124 pages with a 62-page index, could be bound. Both works, however, were sold in a series of saddle-stitched issues. The latter title actually represented West American Scientist 21(165-177): 1-124 (Jan-Dec 1919) and its index West American Scientist 21(177-178): 109-124 (1919). Charles also published various one-page circulars, such as Mollusca and School of Science. Charles planned to publish a bibliographical index to North American Botany, but he never did.

Orcutt, Charles Russell. American Plants Volume One. San Diego: Charles Russell Orcutt (1907-1908), 193 pp.

Orcutt, Charles Russell. American Plants Volume Two. San Diego: Charles Russell Orcutt (1909), 220 pp.

Orcutt, Charles Russell. American Plants Volume Three. San Diego: Charles Russell Orcutt (1912) 175 pp. with plates and alphabetical index.

Orcutt, C.R. Botany of Southern California. San Diego: C.R. Orcutt (1901), 38 pp. “A check-list of the flowering plants, ferns, marine algae, etc., known to occur in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange and Los Angeles counties, California, and north Baja California, with notes, and descriptions of many species.” Reprinted from West American Scientist, preserving the original pagination.

Orcutt, C.R. Flora of Southern and Lower California. San Diego: The Orcutt Seed and Plant Co. (1885), 17 pp. “A Check-List of Flowering Plants and Ferns.”

Orcutt, C.R. Southern and Lower California Flora. Oquawka, Ill.: H.N. Patterson, Printer (1883), 4 pp.

Orcutt, C.R. California Trees and Flowers. San Diego: The Orcutt Seed and Plant Co. (1891), 38 pp. “Descriptions of the Wild Flowers, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Ferns, Lilies and Cacti, with other information.”

Orcutt, C.R. Molluscan World Volume I. San Diego: C.R. Orcutt 1-62; 1-208 (1915), 397 pp. Originally published as West American Scientist 20(140-157): 1-62 (index); 1-208 (1915). Volume II was never published.

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This website is maintained by Larry Orcutt. I can be contacted by e-mail at Victory followed by the Roman numeral 4, no space and all lower case, at earthlink, which is not a dot com, but rather a dot net. Apologies for my indirectness, but it is necessary in order to avoid robots trolling for e-mail addresses.