> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 420](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066760) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11820-1) LSID 11820-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4128369) QID Q4128369 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wolf, Frederick Adolph (1885-1975), American mycologist and plant pathologist; studied at the University of Nebraska 1903-1908, M.Sc. 1908; at the University of Texas 1909-1910; Dr. phil. Cornell Univ. with G.F. Atkinson; plant pathologist Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn 1911-1915; plant pathologist at the Agricultural Experiment Station at North Carolina State College, Raleigh 1915-1925; plant pathologist USDA at Orlando, Florida 1925-1927; professor of botany Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 1927-1954; emeritus professor from 1954. **Abbreviated name**: *F.A. Wolf* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.A.Wolf*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 512; BM 5: 2348; Bossert p. 441; Kelly p. 243; Lenley p. 440; LS 40669-40672, suppl. 1447, 30235-30289; Moebius p. 372; Stevenson p. 1263; Tucker 1: 752, 3: 340. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 3-11. 1921-1967; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 565-567. 1969 (bibl.); Who's who Amer. 17-29. 1932-1956; Who was who Amer. 7: 623. 1977-1981 (b. 25 Jun 1885, d. 7 Nov 1975). - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 3, 34, 1981. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 349, 350. 1936, 3: 31, 313. 1937. - Wolf, F.T., Mycologia 68(2): 229-232. 1976 (obit., portr.); Phytopathology 66(3): 238. 1976 (id.). #### Eponymy *Wolfina* Seaver ex Eckblad (1968). #### Note Main works outside our period, with his son Frederick Taylor Wolf \[b. 1915\], *The fungi*, 2 vols. 1947 (other printing 1949); facsimile reprint Hafner Publishing Company., New York and London 1969. – See also his *Tobacco diseases and decays*, Durham, N.C. 1936. ### Publications ##### n.18.165. Life history and development of some fungi **Title** *Life history and development of some fungi*. A thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University for the degree of doctor of philosophy by Frederick Adolph Wolf, June, 1911. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: A set of reprints of papers in various journals: \[*1*\]: Sep 1912, *The perfect stage of Actinonema rosae*, reprinted from the Botanical Gazette 54(3): 213-234. 1912. \[*2*\]: 1922, *Some fungous diseases of the Prickly Pear*, Opuntia Lindheimeri † Engelm., reprinted from the "Annales mycologici" 10(2): \[113\]-134. *pl. 5.* 1912. \[*3*\]: 1911, *A disease of the cultivated fig*, Ficus Carica L., reprinted from the Annales mycologici 9(6): \[622\]-624. 1911. \[*4*\]: 1912, *Spore formation in Podospora anserina* (Rabh.) Winter, reprinted from the Annales mycologici 10(1): \[60\]-64. 1912. \[*5*\] 1912, *The brown leaf spot* of Colt's foot, Tussilago farfara L., reprinted from the Annales mycologici 10(1): \[65\]-67. 1912. *Copy*: NY. ##### n.18.166. Fungi of the Duke forest **Title** *Fungi of the Duke forest* and their relation to forest pathology... Durham, North Carolina... 1938. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fungi Duke forest*. **Notes** *Collaborators*: K.H. Garren & J.K. Miller. *Publ*.: Aug 1938, p. \[1\]-122. *Copies*: FH, Stevenson.