> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 606](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068848) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4925-1) LSID 4925-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5075236) QID Q5075236 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.).