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### Author
Herbst, William (1833-1907), American physician and mycologist; M. D. Jefferson medical college 1855; practicing physician at Trexlertown, Lehigh Co., Pa., later also lectured at Muhlenberg College, Pa.
**Abbreviated name**: *Herbst* \[standard form in IPNI: *Herbst*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection PH|PH]] (fungi and lichens); 200 further fungi at [[Collection MICH|MICH]]. Manuscript of *Fungal flora* in Lloyd Library, Cincinnati.
*Ref*.: Pennell, F. W., Bartonia 22: 14. 1943.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 162; Bossert p. 172; CSP 15: 780; IH 2: 270; Stevenson p. 1244.
- Harshberger, J. W., Bot. Philadelphia 291-293, 446. 1899 (portr.).
- Herbst, W., Fungal fl. Lehigh Valley, 1899, frontispiece portrait of author.
- Hesler, L. R., Biogr. sketches N. Amer. mycol. 1975, mss.
- Kelly, H. A., *in* Kelly, H. A. & W. L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 516. 1920; Some Amer. med. bot. 190-191. 1929.
- Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 475 \[index\]. 1963.
- Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 197. 1905.
### Publications
##### n.2670. Fungal flora of the Lehigh Valley
**Title**
*Fungal flora of the Lehigh Valley*, Pa.... Allentown, Pa. (Berkemeyer, Keck & Co.) 1899. Oct. (size).
**Abbreviated title**: *Fung. fl. Lehigh Valley*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Aug-Dec 1899 (p. \[2\]: 1 Aug 1899), frontisp. portr., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-229, *25* uncol. *pl. Copies*: Stevenson (*24 pl.*), USDA.