> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 62](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258540) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/19016-1) LSID 19016-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21513590) QID Q21513590 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fron, Georges (1870-1957), French agronomist and mycologist, born 20 Feb 1870 in Paris, agron. engineer 1891, at the Jardin colonial in Nogent-sur-Marne, Dr. ès-sciences 1899 Paris, served in W.W.-I, and after demobilization returned to the Paris Inst. Agronomique 1921, prof. of plant pathology, then of applied botany, president of the Société Botanique de France and the Société Mycologique de France, died 15 Dec 1957 in Paris. **Abbreviated name**: *Fron* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fron*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]]. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 212; Barnhart 2: 14; BL 2: 101-102, 656; CSP 15: 153; DBF 14: 1373-1374; Hirsch p. 90; IH 2: 211; Kelly p. 86; Kew 2: 350; LS 33.461-33.465; LS suppl. 9026-9034; Rehder 5(index): 301; Stevenson p. 1242. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 108. 1931. - Charpin, A. & J. Timbal, 2007. Acta Bot. Gallica 154: 449. (d. "1958") - Davy de Virville, A., 1954. Hist. bot. France: 139. - Dörfler, I., 1909. Botaniker-Adressbuch, ed. 3: 108. - Lavaud, S., 1955. Cat. thèses de Doctorat ès Sciences nat. soutenues à Paris de 1891 à 1954: 27. ### Publications ##### n.35.786. champignons parasites **Title** Les *champignons parasites* des *plantes*... Vade-mecum du Mycologue... Paris (Libraire E. le François) 1935. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Champ. parasites pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 21 Aug 1934 (date of printing on p. \[111\], Nat. Nov. Jul 1935), cover-t.p., p. \[3\]-109, \[111, printer's mark\]. *Copies*: B, FH (n.v.), NY (n.v.), USDA-Mycol. *Note*: NY copy annotated with mss. additions \[by G. Churrier?\] inserted.