David Hunt Linder (1899 - 1946)
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Biography
1899 September 24, born in Brookline, Massachusetts
family moves to Canton, Massachusetts
1917 enters Harvard College
1921 graduates, starts graduate work there in mycology
1922 earns M.A., collects in what are then British Guiana and French Guiana, in South America
1926 earns PhD from Harvard; joins a Harvard expedition to Africa, where he becomes ill and almost dies
appointed instructor in the Shaw School of Botany in St. Louis, Missouri, and staff mycologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden; marries Elinor Alberts, staff orchidologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden
1931 appointed instructor in cryptogamic botany at Harvard; the house in Canton becomes the home for Elinor's orchid collection
(late thirties) remarries, selling the house in Canton; don't know what happened to Elinor
1943 first issue of Farlowia appears
1946 November 10, dies
Linder is mainly known for his work on and through the Farlow herbarium. He managed to increase its holdings by about 200,000 specimens during his tenure, of which about half were fungi. He also more than doubled the size of its library. He felt that it was important to have a journal that would serve as a venue for monographic studies of fungi, and managed to convince Harvard to put out Farlowia to serve that purpose. Linder was also quite active as a writer, a list of his principal publications covering three pages of his obituary in Mycologia. In less than twenty-five years of an active career, he described ~200 taxa.
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Sources
Harry Baker Humphrey (1961) Makers of North American Botany
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Further Sources
P. L. Rusden (1947) "David Hunt Linder" in Mycologia
W. H. Weston (1947) "David Hunt Linder" in Farlowia
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Selected Publications
David Hunt Linder (1929) "A monograph of the Helicosporous Fungi Imperfecti" in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 16:3 pp. 227 - 388
David Hunt Linder (1931) "Brief notes on the Helicosporeae with descriptions of four new species" in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 18:1 pp. 9 - 16
David Hunt Linder (1931) "The genus Helioceras" in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 18:1 pp. 1 - 7
David Hunt Linder (1933) "The genus Schizophyllum: I. Species of the Western Hemisphere" in American Journal of Botany 20:8 pp. 552 - 564
David Hunt Linder (1934) "The genus Myxomycidium" in Mycologia 26:4 pp. 332 - 343
M. T. Hilborn & David Hunt Linder (1939) "The synonymy of Fomes fomentarius" in Mycologia 31 pp. 418 - 419
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