[1] and in 1892, Lermond ran for the U.S. Congress from Maine's 2nd congressional district for the Populists, finishing in third place with 3.63% of the vote.
His papers were found with the Department of Mollusks of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology and was published with annotations.
He studied nature in the Bahamas and Cuba, and camped in the Everglades for a period of three weeks with a party of eminent scientists doing research work.
"[7] Lermond organized and directed the Knox Academy of Arts and Sciences, established in 1913, and established the Knox Arboretum which was roughly sixty acres[8] of land with approximately 3500' of tidal frontage and a large brick house at the junction the St. George and Oyster Rivers in Warren, Maine.
Also a Charles Creighten's collection of birds, local Indian relics, butterflies, minnows, and tourmaline.
In his study of mollusks, Lermond collect enough shells to fill "100 cases" and was estimated by the Smithsonian Institution in 1940s to be valued at $50,000.
One type was a new discovery and was named in honor of him, Caecum lermondi[14] but was found to have been previously identified as Meioceras nitidum.