Cornelius Lott Shear (1865 - 1956)
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Biography
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Biography
studies at Albany State Normal School and New York State Normal School
1888 teaches high school in New York and Nebraska
1897 earns B.Sc. from University of Nebraska
1901 earns Masters from University of Nebraska, goes to work at the Bureau of Plant Industry
1906 moves to Washington DC
1923 appointed director of the Division of Mycology and Disease Survey
1927 collecting expedition to Hawaii
1928 collecting expedition to Hawaii (some people get all the breaks!)
Dörfelt & Heklau say that, while still a school teacher, Shear issued a set of exsiccati under the title "New York Fungi"; but they don't give a date for it.
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Cornelius Lott Shear, N. E. Stevens & R. J. Tiller (1917) "Endothia parasitica and related species" in USDA Bulletin 380 pp. 1 - 82The second half of the article gives descriptions of all the then known species of Endothia
Cornelius Lott Shear & N. E. Stevens (1919) "The mycological work of Moses Ashley Curtis" in Mycologia 11 pp. 181 - 201
Cornelius Lott Shear & Bernard Ogilvie Dodge (1925) "The life history of Pilacre faginea (Fr.) B. & Br." in Journal of Agricultural Research 30:5 pp. 407 - 417
Cornelius Lott Shear & Bernard Ogilvie Dodge (1927) "Life histories and heterothallism of the red bread-mold fungi of the Monilia sitophila group" in Journal of Agricultural Research 34:11 pp. 1019 - 1042
Cornelius Lott Shear (1929) "The life history of Sphaceloma ampelinum de Bary" in Phytopathology 19:7 pp. 673 - 679
Frederic E. Clements & Cornelius Lott Shear (1931) The Genera of Fungi 2nd ed.An important reference work of its time, listing most of the genera then accepted, with their type species.
There was a first edition, that Clements did by himself; but it wasn't as good, and didn't have much of an impact.
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Species
Cryptoporus volvatus (Peck) C. L. Shear
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Genera
Cryptoporus (Peck) C. L. Shear
Neurospora C. L. Shear & B. O. Dodge
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