Potential Methods for Extending Galvin and J\'onsson's Characterization   of Distributive Sublattices of Free Lattices
  In 1959, F.Galvin and B.Jonsson characterized distributive sublattices of free lattices in their paper. In this paper, I will create new proofs to a portion of Galvin and J\'onsson's results. Based on these new proofs, I will explore possible generalizations of F.Galvin and B.J\'onsson's work by defining \emph{spanning pairs} and proving partial results which may help with analysing finite width sublattices of free lattices; and by making some new observations on finitely generated lattices over semidistributive varieties.   The work done in this paper may assist in attacking the following long-standing open problem: Which countable lattices are isomorphic to a sublattice of a free lattice? 
Brian T. Chan
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