Earl Lemley Core was a botanist and botanical educator, researcher and author as well as a local West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

 historian. He was founder (1936) of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club and editor of its journal, Castanea, for thirty-five years. He was a teacher and professor at West Virginia University

West Virginia University

West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser;...

 (WVU) for over forty-four years (1928-72). He served for four years on the Morgantown City Council and was mayor of Morgantown

Morgantown, West Virginia

Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia. It is the county seat of Monongalia County. Placed along the banks of the Monongahela River, Morgantown is the largest city in North-Central West Virginia, and the base of the Morgantown metropolitan area...

 for two years. The Earl L. Core Arboretum at WVU is named in his honor.

Youth and education

Core was born on January 20, 1902, at Core, West Virginia

Core, West Virginia

Core is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. Core is northwest of downtown Morgantown....

, the son of Harry Michael and Clara Edna (née

NEE

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 Lemley) Core. He graduated from Morgantown High School, taught in rural schools (1920-23) and then attended WVU, earning Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

  (1926) and Master of Arts

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 (1928) degrees. He married Freda Bess Garrison on June 8, 1925. (They eventually parented four children: Ruth, Merle, Harry, and David.) He earned a Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

 degree (1936, Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

) with a dissertation on the systematics

Systematics

Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of terrestrial life, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees...

 of the sedge

Cyperaceae

Cyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses or rushes. The family is large, with some 5,500 species described in about 109 genera. These species are widely distributed, with the centers of diversity for the group...

 genus Scleria

Scleria

Scleria is a genus of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. Rather tall, coarse plants with leafy, three-angled stems, sometimes with wings along the angles...

.

Career

Core became an instructor at WVU in 1928 and remained on the faculty for over 44 years. He progressed to assistant professor (1934), associate professor (1941), professor (1942), and professor emeritus (1972) and was chairman of the Biology Department from 1948 to 1966. He served as curator of the university herbarium

Herbarium

In botany, a herbarium – sometimes known by the Anglicized term herbar – is a collection of preserved plant specimens. These specimens may be whole plants or plant parts: these will usually be in a dried form, mounted on a sheet, but depending upon the material may also be kept in...

 from 1934 until his retirement in 1972. In addition, he served as a member of the summer faculty at Ohio State University

Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...

 during 1939-41 and of Concord College

Concord University

Concord University is a comprehensive, public, liberal arts institution located in Athens, West Virginia, United States, founded on February 28, 1872, when the West Virginia Legislature passed "an Act to locate a Branch State Normal School, in Concord Church, in the County of Mercer".Founded by...

 in 1961.

Core was named botanist for the Colombia Cinchona Mission, Bogota, Colombia, from 1943 to 1945 during which assignment he explored in the Andes Mountains in search of wartime sources of quinine

Quinine

Quinine is a natural white crystalline alkaloid having antipyretic , antimalarial, analgesic , anti-inflammatory properties and a bitter taste. It is a stereoisomer of quinidine which, unlike quinine, is an anti-arrhythmic...

 from the Cinchona

Cinchona

Cinchona or Quina is a genus of about 38 species in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America. They are large shrubs or small trees growing 5–15 metres in height with evergreen foliage. The leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate and 10–40 cm long. The flowers are white, pink...

 tree.

Author

In the course of his career, Core authored numerous technical articles, several books, and hundreds of newspaper articles. Two notable textbooks that became standards were General Biology by P.D. Strausbaugh, B.R. Weimer, and Earl L. Core and A New Manual for the Biology Laboratory by Core and Weimer. His botanical texts were The Flora of West Virginia (a four volume series written with Strausbaugh), Flora of the Erie Islands, Spring Wild Flowers, Plant Taxonomy, Vegetation of West Virginia, and The Wondrous Year, a collection of weekly botanical writings he prepared for the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette newspaper.

In 1937, Core wrote The Chronicles of Core, a history of his home community and in 1960 he published Morgantown Disciples, a history of the First Christian Church

First Christian Church

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 of Morgantown, West Virginia

Morgantown, West Virginia

Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia. It is the county seat of Monongalia County. Placed along the banks of the Monongahela River, Morgantown is the largest city in North-Central West Virginia, and the base of the Morgantown metropolitan area...

. Late in life he embarked upon an extensive five-volume history of Monongalia County, West Virginia

Monongalia County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 81,866 people, 33,446 households, and 18,495 families residing in the county. The population density was 227 people per square mile . There were 36,695 housing units at an average density of 102 per square mile...

 (1974-84), completing the last volume shortly before his death. (This material had been published over a period of 12 years in a weekly column of the Morgantown Dominion Post

The Dominion Post (Morgantown)

The Dominion Post is the only commercial daily newspaper in Morgantown, West Virginia. It is the merger, over time, of the Morgantown New Dominion, the Morgantown News, which became the Morgantown Dominion-News and the Morgantown Post...

 newspaper.)

Honors and accolades

• Member and past president, Phi Beta Kappa
• Distinguished Professor at WVU (1967)
• The Earl L. Core Arboretum at West Virginia University was named for him (1967)
• Meritorious Teaching Award of the Association of Southeastern Biologists (1971)
• Order of Vandalia of West Virginia University (1982)
• Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Waynesburg College (1957)
• Honorary Doctor of Science degree, West Virginia University (1974)

Works

• "Ecological studies on Spruce Mountain" (1928), Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci. 2:36-39.
• "The plant ecology of Spruce Mountain, West Virginia" (1929), Ecology, 10:1-13.
• "Some additions to the Millspaugh checklist of West Virginia Spermatophytes" (1930), W.Va. Acad. Sci., 4:38-48 (with P.D. Strausbaugh).
• "Herbarium organization at West Virginia University" (1931), Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 5:61-71.
• Common seed plants of the mid-Appalachian region (1931). xxiv + 305 p. (with P.D. Strausbaugh and Nelle Ammons).
• "Some aspects of the phytogeography of West Virginia" (1932), Torreya
  Torreya
  Torreya is a genus of conifers comprising five or six species, treated in either the Cephalotaxaceae, or in the Taxaceae when that family is considered in a broad sense. Four are native to eastern Asia; the other two are native to North America. They are small to medium-sized evergreen trees...
  
  , 32:65-71.
• "Phymosia remota" (1932), Rhodora
  Rhodora
  Rhodora is a section of subgenus Pentanthera in the genus Rhododendron. It comprises two species, both deciduous shrubs native to eastern North America:*Rhododendron canadense*Rhododendron vaseyi...
  
  , 34:142-146 (with P.D. Strausbaugh).
• "Studies in the genus Scleria" (1934), Brittonia, 1:239-243.
• "The blister pine in West Virginia" (1934), Torreya, 34:92-93.
• "Contributions of Charles Frederick Millspaugh to the botany of West Virginia" (1935), Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 8:82-93.
• "The American species of Scleria" (1936), Brittonia, 2:1-105.
• "The botanical exploration of West Virginia" (1936), Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 10:47-64.
• "The type localities of some plants first described from West Virginia" (1936), Torreya, 36:7-13.
• "Additions to the Millspaugh checklist of West Virginia Spermatophytes" (1936). Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 9:29-31.
• "Spring foray to Blackwater Falls and Spruce Knob, West Virginia" (1937), Castanea, 2:87-88.
• "Joint trip with the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club in Southern New Jersey" (1937). Torreya, 37:130-132.
• "The genus Carex in West Virginia" (1937), Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 11:29-43.
• "Plant migrations and vegetational history of the Southern Appalachian region" (1938), Lilloa, 3:5-29.
• "Joint foray at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 15-19" (1938), Castanea, 3:79-81.
• "John Kunkel Small
  John Kunkel Small
  John Kunkel Small was an American botanist.He was the first Curator of Museums at The New York Botanical Garden, a post in which he served from 1898 until 1906. From 1906 to 1934 he was Head Curator and then from 1934 until his death he was Chief Research Associate and Curator...
  
  " (1938), Castanea, 3:27-28.
• "Gum Springs Bog" (1939), Castanea, 4.7-8.
• "Raymond H. Torrey
  Raymond H. Torrey
  Raymond Hezekiah Torrey was the author of weekly columns, Outings and The Long Brown Path in the New York Evening Post in the 1920s and 1930s. The column played a major role in the development of the Appalachian Trail, the Long Path and the popularity of hiking generally...
  
  " (1939), Castanea, 4:6-7.
• "A taxonomic revision of the genus Siphonychia" (1939), J. Elisha Mitchell Society, 55:339-345.
• "The flora of Roaring Plains, West Virginia" (1939), Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 12:33-35.
• "The shale barren flora of West Virginia" (1939), Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 14:27-36.
• "Spermatophytes new to West Virginia" (1940), Castanea, 5:20-23 (with H.A. Davis).
• "Notes on the mid-Appalachian species of Paronychia" (1940), Virginia J. Sci., 1:110-116.
• "A catalog of the vascular plants of West Virginia" (1940), Castanea, 5:29-68.
• "Travels of Asa Gray in western Virginia, 1843" (1940), Rhodora, 42:344-351.
• “New plant records for West Virginia” (1940), Torreya 40:5-9.
• “A new species of Paronychia from Mexico“ (1941), Madrono 6:21-22.
• “Butomus umbellatus in America“ (1941), Ohio J. Sci. 41:79-85.
• “The North America species of Paronychia“ (1941), Amer. Midl. Naturalist 26:269-397.
• “Notes on some West Virginia plants“ (1941), Castanea 6:86-88.
• “Additions to the catalogue of the vascular plants of West Virginia“ (1941), 1. Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci. 15:73-76 (with H.A. Davis).
• “The genus Scleria in extra-tropical South America“ (1942), Lilloa 8:535-544.
• “Additions to the catalogue of the vascular plants of West Virginia“ (1942), II. Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci. 16:35-40 (with H.A. Davis).
• “Botanizing in the higher Alleghenies“ (1943), Sci. Monthly 57:119-125.
• A new manual for the biology laboratory (1944), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York (with B.R. Weimer). 216 p.
• “West Virginia grasses“ (1944), W.Va. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 513. 96 p. (with Earl E. Berkley and H.A. Davis).
• “Two new species of Scleria from the upper Amazon Valley“ (1945), J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 35:322.
• “The hollies of West Virginia“ (1945), Castanea 10:57-60 (with Nelle Ammons).
• “The dogwoods of West Virginia“ (1945), Castanea 10:88-91 (with Nelle Ammons).
• “Huckleberries, blueberries and cranberries of West Virginia“ (1945), Castanea 10:103-109 (with Nelle Ammons).
• “Additions to the catalogue of the vascular plants of West Virginia“ (1945), III Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci. 17:27-30 (with H.A. Davis).
• “On the need for revision of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature“ (1945), Castanea 10:116-119.
• “The Southern Appalachian Botanical Club: Past and Future“ (1945), Castanea 10:119-120.
• “Ramps“ (1945), Castanea 10:110-112.
• "Wildflowers of the Appalachian shale barrens" (1946), Wild Flower, 22:13-18.
• Woody Plants of West Virginia in Winter Condition (1946), 124 p., 269 figs. Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
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   (with Nelle Ammons).
• "The gardens of Colombia" (1946), W.Va. Garden Club News, 10: 10-12. 1945; 10: 14-15.
• "The genus Scleria in Cuba" (1946), Mem. Soc. Cubana Hist. Nat. Felipe Foey, 18:43-56.
• "Scleria" (1947), In: Flora de Cuba, pp. 230-235.
• "John Lewis Sheldon" (1947), Science
  Science (journal)
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  , 105:541.
• "Additions to the catalogue of the vascular plants of West Virginia" (1947), IV. Proc. W. Va. Acad. Sci., 18:26-29.
• "The flora of the Erie Islands" (1948), Franz Theo. Stone Lab. Countr., 9. viii + 107 p.
• "Spring wildflowers" (1948), W.Va. Univ. Bull. Ser., 59, 4-2. 100 p. (Reprinted 1950 by W.Va. Conserv. Comm., iv + 100 p.).
• "A syllabus of the Spermatophyta" (1948), 2nd ed. 145 p. West Virginia University
  West Virginia University
  West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser;...
  
  , Morgantown.
• "The genus Scleria in Colombia" (1948), Caldasia, 5:17-32.
• "Additions to the catalogue of the vascular plants of West Virginia" (1948), V. Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 19:23-26 (with H.A. Davis).
• "Man's first gardens" (1949), Garden Gleanings, No. 8, 3; No. 9. 2, 3, 8, 9.
• "Original treeless areas in West Virginia" (1949), J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 65:306-310.
• "Notes on the plant geography of West Virginia" (1950), Castanea, 15:61-79.
• "Botanizing in the northern Andes" (1950), Wild Flower, 27:6-20.
• "The New Arboretum" (1951), W.Va. Univ. Alumni Mag., 16. 4, 21, 22.
• "Seleria tepuiensis Core sp. nov." (1951), Fieldiana, 28:52.
• "Joseph E. Harned" (1951), Castanea, 16:78, 79.
• "Danske Dandridge
  Danske Dandridge
  Caroline "Danske" Dandridge was an American poet, historian and garden writer.Dandridge was born on November 19, 1854 in Copenhagen, Denmark to Caroline Lawrence Bedinger and Henry Bedinger III, the United States' first ambassador to Denmark...
  
  " (1951), Castanea, 16:138.-142.
• "Botanizing on Panther Knob, West Virginia" (1952), Wild Flower, 28:35-38.
• "The ranges of some plants of the Appalachian shale barrens" (1952), Castanea, 17:105-116.
• "Botany at West Virginia University, 1867-1900" (1952), Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci., 24:72-78.
• "Lawrence William Nuttall" (1952), Castanea, 17:157-164.
• "Some new or otherwise noteworthy plants from West Virginia" (1952), Castanea, 17:165 (with P.D. Strausbaugh).
• "Flora of West Virginia, Part 1" (1952), W.Va. Univ. Bull., pp. 1-274, (with P.D. Strausbaugh).
• "The genus Scleria in Brazil" (1952), Rodriguesia
  Rodriguesia
  Rodriguesia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.-References:*...
  
  , XV(27):137-162.
• "The Southern Appalachian Botanical Club: History of the club and its journal (1953), Castanea", Asa Gray Bull. n.s. 2:199.
• "Pendleton County, West Virginia" (1953), Tribio, 2:3-4.
• "Flora of West Virginia, Part II" (1953), W.Va. Univ. Bull., pp. 275-570 (with P.D. Strausbaugh).
• "Outline of the flora of West Virginia" (1954), W.Va. Bookstore, Morgantown, 150 p.
• "Cranberry Glades Natural Area" (1955), Wild Flower, 31:65-81.
• Plant taxonomy (1955), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
  Englewood Cliffs is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 5,281. The borough houses the world headquarters of CNBC and the American headquarters of Unilever, and is home to both Ferrari and Maserati North America.Englewood Cliffs...
  
  , 459 p.
• "Scutellaiia ovata in West Virginia" (1957), Castanea 22:139-140.
• "Flora of West Virginia, Part III" (1958), W.Va. Univ. Bull. pp. 571-860 (with P.D. Strausbaugh).
• Woody Plants in Winter (1958), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
  
  : Boxwood Press, 218 p. (with Nelle Ammons).
• "Biological investigations of Cheat Lake" (1959), Morgantown, West Virginia
  Morgantown, West Virginia
  Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County, West Virginia. It is the county seat of Monongalia County. Placed along the banks of the Monongahela River, Morgantown is the largest city in North-Central West Virginia, and the base of the Morgantown metropolitan area...
  
  , 39 p. (with others).
• Entries "Arbutus", "Bloodroot", "Calendula", "Boehmeria", "Cinquefoil", "Duckweed", "Fire-weed", "Indian paintbrush", "Lungwort", "Meadow beauty", "Milkweed", "Oregon grape", "Ranunculus", "Smartweed", "Solomon's seal", "Spurge family", "Toadflax" (1960), In: World Book Encyclopedia
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  .
• Plant life of West Virginia (1960), New York
  New York
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  : Scholar's Library, 224 p.
• Entries, "Arboretum", "Botanical gardens", "Herbarium", "Plant keys", "Plant names", "Plant taxonomic literature" (1960), In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
• Morgantown Disciples (1960), Parsons, West Virginia
  Parsons, West Virginia
  The town of Parsons is the county seat of Tucker County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 1,463 at the 2000 census. The mayor of Parsons is Dorothy Judy and the city administrator is Jason Myers...
  
  : McClain Printing Co., 229 pgs.
• The poisonous plants of West Virginia (1961), W.Va. Dept. Agric., 91 p. (with John H. Rietz and William E. Gillespie).
• Articles on "Herbarium", "Rhammales" (1961), In: Reinhold Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences.
• General Biology, 4th ed (1961), New York, London, 555 p. (with P.D. Strausbaugh and B.R. Weimer).
• A New Manual for the Biology Laboratory, 3rd ed (1961), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. 263 p. (with B.R. Weimer and R.B. Clarkson).
• Bibliography of West Virginia Plant Life (1962), Scholar's Library, New York. 46 p. (with William H. Gillespie and Betty J. Gillespie).
• "Terra Alta Biological Station" (1962), Castanea, 27:57-59.
• "The varieties of Rudbeckia hirta" (1962), Castanea, 27:61, 62.
• "The Call of the Wildflowers: West Virginia's first annual Wildflower Pilgrimage" (1962), May 18, W.Va. Conservation, May, pp, 1-3.
• Article, "Widdringtonia" (1963), Encyclopedia Americana
  Encyclopedia Americana
  Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic....
  
  .
• "Flora of West Virginia, Part IV" (1964), W.Va. Univ. Bull., pp 861-1075 (with P.D. Strausbaugh).
• "Flora of West Virginia" (Introductory section) (1964), W.Va. Univ. Bull., pp i-xxxi (with P.D. Strausbaugh).
• "The genus Sclaria in the Yucatan Peninsula" (1965), Wrightia
  Wrightia
  Wrightia is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the Apocynaceae family, native to tropical Africa, Asia and Australia...
  
  , 3:141-160.
• "Scleria" (1965, In: Botany of the Guayan Highlands, Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard., 12:54-69.
• Important Stock Poisoning Plants in West Virginia (1966), W.Va. Dept. Agric. Leaflet (with William H. Gillespie).
• Avoid poisonous plants (1966), W.Va. Dept. Agric. Leaflet (with William H. Gillespie).
• Spring wildflowers (1966), W.Va. Dept. Agric. Leaflet.
• "Plants and Animals of the Bible" (1966), In: Bible Study Helps, Supplement to World Bible 250D, pp. 36-42.
• Mid-summer Flowers of Field and Meadow (1966), W.Va. Dept. Agric. Leaflet.
• "Perry Daniel Strausbaugh" (1966), Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 93:138-140.
• Vegetation of West Virginia (1966), McClain Printing Co., Parsons, West Virginia. 217 p.
• "Scleria" (1966), In: Flora of Texas, Vol. 1, pp. 383-391.
• "Wildflowers of the Alleghenies" (1967), J. Alleghenies, 4(l):I, 2-4.
• "Natural history of the Cass Railroad" (1967), 36 pgs (with others).
• West Virginia plants in Autumn (1967), W.Va. Dept. Agric. Leaflet.
• "Ethnobotany of the Southern Appalachian Aborigines" (1967), Econ. Bot., 21:198-214.
• "Notes on West Virginia plants 1: Eastward migration of Ambrosia bidentata" (1967), Castanea, 32:192.
• "Notes on West Virginia plants II: Thelypteris simulata in West Virginia" (1968), Castanea, 33:80.
• "The Range of Carex trichocarpa Muhl." (1968), Castanea, 33:151, 152.
• Forest Trees of West Virginia, 6th ed (1968), W.Va. Dept. Nat. Res. (with Roland L. Guthrie), 120 pgs.
• "The Plants and Animals of the Bible" (1968), In: Supplement to the Family Heritage Bible, pp. 20-27.
• "West Virginia's Blooming Schedule" (1968), Outdoor West Virginia, Part 1, March, pp. 30-33; Part 2, April, pp. 26-28.
• Common Native Shrubs of West Virginia (1968), W.Va. Dept. Agric. Leaflet.
• "The Botany of Ice Mountain, West Virginia" (1968), Castanea, 33:345-348.
• "Blooming Dates, West Virginia's Flowering Shrubs" (1969), Outdoor West Virginia, March, pp. 16-18.
• West Virginia Grasses (1969), W.Va. Dept. Agric. Leaflet (with James B. Newman).
• "West Virginia Grasses" (1969), W.Va. Dept. Agric. [Leaflet] (with James B. Newman).
• "Silvical characteristics of the five upland oaks" (1971), Proc. The Oak Symposium, pp.19-22. N.E. For. Exp. Sta. USFS. Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
• "The Granulose Variety of the Virginia Dragonhead - Dracocephalum virginianum L. (Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.)" (1972), In: "Notes & News", Castanea 37:301.
• The Monongalia Story: A Bicentennial History, Vol. I: Prelude (1974), Parsons, W.Va.
  Parsons, West Virginia
  The town of Parsons is the county seat of Tucker County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 1,463 at the 2000 census. The mayor of Parsons is Dorothy Judy and the city administrator is Jason Myers...
  
  : McClain Printing Co.
• The Wondrous Year: West Virginia Through the Seasons (1975), Seneca Books, Inc., Grantsville, West Virginia
  Grantsville, West Virginia
  Grantsville is a town in Calhoun County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 565 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Calhoun County. The town was established along the Little Kanawha River in 1865 and named for Ulysses S. Grant...
  
  . 208 p.
• Chronicles of Core (1975, 3rd ed.), McClain Printing Co., Parsons, West Virginia
  Parsons, West Virginia
  The town of Parsons is the county seat of Tucker County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 1,463 at the 2000 census. The mayor of Parsons is Dorothy Judy and the city administrator is Jason Myers...
  
  , 310 pgs.
• The Monongalia Story: A Bicentennial History, Vol. II: The Pioneers (1976), Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Co.
• The Monongalia Story: A Bicentennial History, Vol. III: Discord (1979), Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Co.
• "Kalmia angustifolia in West Virginia" (1980), In: "Notes & News", Castanea 45:217-218.
• The Monongalia Story: A Bicentennial History, Vol. IV: Industrialization (1984), Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Co.
• The Monongalia Story: A Bicentennial History, Vol. V: Sophistication (1984), Parsons, W.Va.: McClain Printing Co.
• "The Monongalia River", 149-152 pp. in Bartlett, Richard A., editor (1984), Rolling Rivers: An Encyclopedia of America's Rivers (McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York
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  , 398 p.

Other sources

• Clarkson, Roy B. and Jesse F. Clovis (1984), “Earl Lemley Core, 1902-1984”, Castanea 50(1): 1-6.