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activities. From around 1818, William
Darlington led the production of the Chester County Cabinet that aimed to collect specimens of the natural products of the county and materials for prospective natural history. Michener became involved in the collections and contributed to the publications that came from them.
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He was a country doctor but also a naturalist, especially interested in plants, fungi and lichens, but he also collected and observed shells, birds, mammals, birds and reptiles. His contacts with the scientific community of
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania meant that he became involved in their
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He became interested in plants and spent time at
Harmony Grove, a botanic garden begun in the mid-1770s by the self-taught botanist John Jackson (1748–1821), developed further by later generations of his family and which survived into the early twentieth century as the area developed into a
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Michener was married twice, first on 15 April 1819 to Sarah
Spencer, and then after her death in 1843, he married Mary S. Walton in 1844. He had at least four sons and 3 daughters with several dying in childhood. He was a life-long and active member of the
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was catalogued and displayed, noting that some specimens had been lost or destroyed by insects. He worked on this between 1855 and 1857, devising a system for mounting and labelling the specimens in communication with the botanical committee of the
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Michener collected many specimens. He was in contact with many contemporary botanists and mycologists for assistance in identifying them. Most of this very extensive correspondence has not survived. He exchanged information and specimens with
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Michener was the fifth child of
Mordecai and Alice (née Dunn) Michener. He was born on the family farm. He was not educated at a school but was taught by some local people and also self-taught.
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Manual of Weeds, or The Weed
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in spring 1816. He passed his final medical examination in April 1818 and was awarded a diploma. He then returned home to
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and physicians. This provided him with the practical training needed for a career in medicine. He also attended lectures in several subjects, including on botany from
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Flora cestrica: an attempt to enumerate and describe the flowering and filicoid plants of
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Flora cestrica: an attempt to enumerate and describe the flowering and filicoid plants of
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