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### Author
Kofoid, Charles Atwood (1865-1947), American protozoologist and algologist of Danish descent; Ph. D. Harvard 1894; with Illinois nat. hist. survey 1894-1903; at Univ. California, Berkeley 1903-1936; assistant director San Diego zool. station 1907-1910; of La Jolla zool. station (later: Scripps) 1910-1923; professor of zoology at Berkeley 1904-1936.
**Abbreviated name**: *Kof* \[standard form in IPNI: *Kof.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown; material at [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]]. Kofoid left his rich and large library (40.000 volumes; 120.000 reprints) to the University of California. His zoological collections are also at Berkeley (Dept. Zool.). For letters and manuscripts see also Taylor (1971).
*Ref*.: Cullen, J., Taxon 21: 730. 1972.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 309; BJI 2: 92; BM 2: 1009; Bossert p. 216; CSP 16: 387; Hirsch p. 155; IH 2: 376; Moebius p. 77; Nordstedt suppl. p. 9; Pennell p. 611.
- Anon., Fortune 33(6): 157. 1946 (portr.).
- Dotell, Nature 160: 115-116. 1947.
- Ewan, J., *in* Cent. progr. nat. sci. 53. 1955.
- Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 80. 1969.
- Goldschmidt, Nat. Acad. Sci. Biogr. Mem. 26: 121-151. 1951 (portr., bibl. by H. Kirby; the main biography).
- Kirby, Sci. Mo. 61: 415-418. 1945; Science 106: 462-463. 1947, Anat. Rev. 101: 403. 1948, Univ. Calif. Fac. Bull. 17: 80-82. 1948.
- Noble, Bios 6: 243-249. 1935 (portr.).
- Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 98, 239. 1963.
- Taylor, Phycologia 10(1): 143-144. 1971 (on "Kofoidiana").
#### Composite works
Kofoid, C. A. and T. Skogsberg, *The Dinoflagellata*: the Dinophycoideae. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 51: 1-766, *31 pl*. 1928. – See also 3842.
#### Handwriting
Natl. Acad. Sci. Biogr. Mem. 26: under portr. opp. p. 121. 1951.
#### Eponymy
*Kofoidia* Light (1927); *Kofoidiella* Skvortzov (1968); *Kofoidinium* Pavillard (1929); *Kofoidopsis* Tasch (1963).
### Publications
##### n.3841. The plankton of the Illinois River
**Title**
*The plankton of the Illinois River*, 1894-1899, with introductory notes upon the hydrography of the Illinois Rover and its basin. \[Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A. 1903-1908\], 2 parts.
**Abbreviated title**: *Plankt. Illinois R.*
**Notes**
*Part 1*: Nov 1903, p. \[i\], \[95\]-629, \[1-2, err.\], *pl. 1-50*, Bull. Illinois State Lab. nat. Hist. 6(2).
*Part 2*: May 1908, p. \[i\]-vii, \[4\]-361, *pl. 1-5*, ib. 8(1).
*Copies*: MICH, NY.
*Facsimile ed*.: Vaduz (J. Cramer) 1977. Bibliotheca phycologica Band 29, ISBN 3-7682-1104-5. *Copies*: FAS, US.
##### n.3842. The free living unarmored Dinoflagellata
**Title**
*The free living unarmored Dinoflagellata*... Berkeley, California (University of California Press) 1921.
**Abbreviated title**: *Free liv. Dinoflag.*
**Notes**
*Co-author*: Olive Swezy (1878-x).
*Publ*.: 28 Jun 1921 (p. ii), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-562, *pl. 1-12* (with text). *Copies*: MO, NY. – Mem. Univ. California, vol. 5.
*Facsimile ed*.: Koenigstein (Otto Koeltz) 1974. (n.v.).