> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 63](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258541) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/19017-1) LSID 19017-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5076250) QID Q5076250 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Frost, Charles Christopher (1805-1880), American shoemaker and self-taught naturalist, born 11 Nov 1805 in Brattleboro, Vermont, worked as a shoemaker throughout his life except in the winter months of a few years in his early manhood when he taught school, otherwise spent his leisure hours studying astronomy, geology, mineralogy, meteorology and botany (esp. mycology), hon. A.M. Dartmouth and Middlebury colleges, died 16 Mar 1880 in Brattleboro, "the learned shoemaker of Brattleboro". **Abbreviated name**: *Frost* \[standard form in IPNI: *Frost*\] #### Herbarium and types Fungi & Lich.: [[Collection VT|VT]]-Frost Herb. (orig.; "... in the small dry-goods boxes left over from Frost's primary employment as a shoemaker"), duplicates [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]]; New England: [[Collection NEBC|NEBC]]. – Some corr. in \[Edward\] Tuckerman Botanical papers, 1816-1886 (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst, Mass.), also [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection NY|NY]] and [[Collection VT|VT]]. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 212; Barnhart 1: 14; Bossert p. 134; CSP 7: 722; Ewan Pap. p. 74; GR p. 217; IH 2: 211; Jackson p. 361; Kelly p. 86; Lenley p. 134; NAF 7(15): 1064, 9(6): 436; Portr. 3: 453; Rhodora, index p. 328; TL-2/6: 897 (index); Tucker 1: 265. #### Biofile - Cabot, M.R., 1921. Annals of Brattleboro, 1681-1895, Brattleboro, Vermont (Press of E.L. Hildreth & Co.), vol. 1: 476-479. - Davenport, E.B., 1904. Rhodora 6: 25-27. (portr.) - Day, M.A., 1901. Rhodora 3: 240. (herb.) - Dudley, W.R. 1886. J. Mycol. 2: 114-118. - Eggleston, W.W., Joint Bull. Vermont Bot. Bird Club Nr. 11: 19-28. (n.v.). - Ewan, J.H., 1969. Short. hist. bot. U.S.: 92. - Grout, A.J. & E.J. Dole, 1932. Joint Bull. Vermont Bot. Bird Club Nr. 15: 23. \[Vermont moss publications\] - Halling, R.\[E.\], 1983. Boston Mycol. Club 38(3): 7-9. (portr.) (n.v.) - Halling, R.E., 1983. Mycologia 75: 70-92. (portr.) \[Boletes described by Frost\] - Humphrey, J.E., 1896. New England Mag. 20(1): 42. - Jones, L.R., 1902. Rhodora 4: 171-174. (library & herb.) - Morgan, A.P., 1877. Bot. Gaz. 2: 105. - Murrill, W.A., 1908. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 35: 517-526, *pl. 36-40.* \[Boletes of the Frost herb.\] - Murrill, W.A., 1908. Torreya 8(8): 197-200. - Reid, A.M.M., 1987. Occas. Pap. Farlow Herb. 19: 26-28. - Rodgers, A.D., 1944. Amer. bot. 1873-1892: 88-89. - Rogers, D.P., 1977. Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer.: 13, 17. - S\[prague\]., C.J., 1880. Amer. J. Sci., Ser. 3, 19: 493. (obit.) - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske (eds.), 1898. Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 2: 555. ("b. 1806") #### Note Halling (1983) suggests that some Boleti described by Frost were published by Charles H. Peck in e.g. TL-2/4 nrs. 7395 \[Ann. Rep. 29\] & 7598. #### Composite works Co-author with E. Tuckerman, *Cat. pl. Amherst Coll.*... 1875, see TL-2/6, nr. 15.284; Frost contributing the fungi as well as the Bryoph. and Characeae. ### Publications ##### n.35.789. enumeration **Title** Further *enumeration* of *New England fungi*... Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.... 1869. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1869 (read 20 Mai 1868, fascicle dated Jun 1868), p. 77-81. *Copy*: FH (imperfect). – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 12: 77-81. 1869. *Note*: Continues two lists of fungi prepared by Charles James Sprague (1823-1903), viz. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5: 325-332. \[5 Mar\] 1856, and Id. 6: 315-321. \[6 Jan\] 1858. ##### n.35.790. Catalogue **Title** *Catalogue* of *Boleti* of *New England*, with descriptions of new species... Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci.... 1874. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1874 (date on p. 100 and 105, read 5 Jun 1874), p. 100-105. *Copies*: FH (n.v.) USDA-Mycol. (photocopy). – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2: 100-105. 1874.