Charles Fremont Pond | |
Nickname: | Frog[1] |
Birth Date: | 18 October 1856 |
Allegiance: | United States |
Branch: | United States Navy |
Serviceyears: | 1879-1918 |
Rank: | Rear Admiral |
Commands: | USS Iroquois, USS Pennsylvania[2] |
Relations: | Emma McHenry Keith (wife) |
Charles Fremont Pond (October 18, 1856 – July 4, 1929) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Pond entered the US Naval academy on June 12, 1872, and graduated on June 20, 1876.[3]
In 1889, while surveying the coast and islands of Baja California on the USS Ranger, Pond collected numerous plants, which he sent to his friend, botanist Edward Lee Greene.[4] Greene named the cactus Mammillaria pondii in his honor.