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.
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