Harry Delbert Thiers (1919 - 2000)
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Biography
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Selected publications
Species
Biography
Harry Thiers was an eminent mycologist who specialized in the Boletes of California. He was a professor at San Francisco State University (which has named their herbarium after him) for a long time, but retired to downstate Illinois (Peoria). In 1998 he gave a talk on Amanitas for the Illinois Mycological Association.
For lots of information on his career, see the two web sites below. The Mykoweb page has links to several other sites commemorating Harry, including the SFSU page. I put the SFSU one on here also because it has a very funny botanical "description" of Harry, from his retirement festivities.
Other Web Sources
Harry Thiers Memorial page (Mykoweb)
Harry Thiers Memorial page (SFSU)
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Selected Publications
Alexander Hanchett Smith & Harry Delbert Thiers (1964) A contribution towards a monograph of North American species of Suillus
Alexander Hanchett Smith, Orson K. Miller, Jr. & Harry Delbert Thiers (1965) "The species of Suillus and Fuscoboletinus of Priest River Experimental Forest and Vicinity, Priest River, Idaho" in Lloydia 28 pp. 120 - 138
Alexander Hanchett Smith, Harry Delbert Thiers & Roy Watling (1967) "Leccinum snellii article" in Michigan Botany 6 pp. 120 - 121
Alexander Hanchett Smith & Harry Delbert Thiers (1968) "Tylopilus chromapes article" in Mycologia 60 p. 948
Harry Delbert Thiers & Alexander Hanchett Smith (1969) "Hypogeous Cortinarii" in Mycologia 61 pp. 526 - 536
Alexander Hanchett Smith & Harry Delbert Thiers (1971) The Boletes of Michigan
Harry Delbert Thiers & Roy Watling (1971) "Secotiaceous fungi from the Western United States" in Madrono 21 pp. 1 - 9
Alexander Hanchett Smith & Harry Delbert Thiers (1975) The Boletes of Michigan
H. E. Bigelow & Harry Delbert Thiers (1975) Studies on Higher Fungi
Harry Delbert Thiers (1976) "Boletes of the Southwestern United States" in Mycotaxon 3 pp. 261 - 273
Harry Delbert Thiers & Walter J. Sundberg (1976) "Armillaria in the Western United States" in Madrono 23 pp. 448 - 453I believe that the fungi which were Armillarias at the time have since been moved into Tricholoma
Harry Delbert Thiers (1976) "The genus Suillus in the Western United States" in Mycotaxon 9 pp. 285 - 296
Harry Delbert Thiers (1979) "Studies in Secotiaceous Fungi: New and interesting hypogeous and secotioid fungi from California" in Sydowia Annales Mycologici 2:8 pp. 361 - 390
Harry Delbert Thiers (1982) The Agaricales of California: Amanitaceae
David Lee Largent & Harry Delbert Thiers (1986) How to Identify Mushrooms to genus: II : field identification of genera
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Species
Boletus campestris Thiers & A. H. Smith
Boletus pseudosensibilis Thiers & A. H. Smith
Leccinum holopus var. americanum A. H. Smith & Thiers
Leccinum snellii Thiers, R. Watling & A. H. Smith
Tylopilus chromapes (Frost) Thiers & A. H. Smith
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