> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 524](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068766) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4738-1) LSID 4738-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19960053) QID Q19960053 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Kern, Frank Dunn (1883-1973), American mycologist and phytopathologist; Ph. D. Columbia 1911; specialist on Uredinales; associate botanist at Purdue University (1905-1910); instructor at Purdue 1910-1913; from 1913-1950 at Pennsylvania State University. **Abbreviated name**: *F. Kern* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.Kern*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PAC|PAC]] and [[Collection PUR|PUR]]; duplicates [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection IAC|IAC]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. *Ref*.: Kern, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 34: 459-463. 1907 (mycol. coll. Colorado). - Shope, Mycologia 21: 293. 1929. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 283; Bossert p. 209; Hirsch p. 149; IH 2: 353; Kew 3: 238; LS 13820, 35336-35350, suppl. 13740-13759; MW p. 230; NAF 7(15): 1072-1073; Roon p. 60; Stevenson p. 1247; TL-2/1: 781. - Anon., J. New York Bot. Gard. 9: 69. 1908, 12: 134. 1911; Mycologia 38: front. portr. 1946. - Boyle et al., Phytopathology 64: 766. 1974 (portr.). - Ewan, J., Rocky Mountain naturalists 243. 1950. - Fergus et al., Mycologia 66(5): 739-742. 1974 (portr., bibl.). - Hesler, L. R., Biogr. sketches North Amer. mycol. 1975 (mss.). - Murrill, W. A., Hist. found. bot. Florida 30. 1945. - Rickett, H. W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 54. 1955. - Rogers, D. P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. 29. 1977. - Rogerson, C. D., Mycologia index vols. 1-58, p. 935-936. 1968. #### Composite works - (1) NAF, *Aecidiaceae, Gymnosporangium*, 7(3): 188-211. 15 Apr 1912 (TL-2/781). - (2) Associate editor *Mycologia* 1926-1932. #### Note Kern's thesis *A biologic and taxonomic study of the genus Gymnosporangiu* was published in the Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 391-483. 1911 (Nat. Nov. Dec (2) 1911; rev. Mycologia 4: 40. 6 Jan 1912). It was revised and issued in book-form 26 Jul 1973 as "*A revised taxonomic account of Gymnosporangium.*" (Taxon 22: 684. 1973, 23: 202-203. 1974), probably the only taxonomic treatment ever to have been revised and republished by the original author after 62 years. – Kern conributed towards J.C. Arthur, *The plant rusts*, New York 1929. #### Eponymy *Kernella* Thirumalachar (1949); *Kernia* Thirumalachar (1947); *Kerniomyces* Toro (1939). *Note: Kernia* Nieuwland (1916) may also commemorate him. – Kern Graduate Building, graduate center at Penn State, 1971.