> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 98](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264825) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/178-1) LSID 178-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21340902) QID Q21340902 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Ames, Lawrence Marion|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Ames, Lawrence Marion (1900-1966), American mycologist and phytopathologist, grew up at farms in Michigan and Illinois, at Blackburn Academy, Carlinville, Ill. 1920-1923, at Michigan State College, East Lansing, B.S. 1927, M.S. 1929; main teacher E.A. Bessey; assistant pathologist Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta., Wooster 1929-1930; at the cryptogamic laboratories of Harvard 1930-1932; Ph.D. Harvard 1933, associate pathologist U.S. Bureau of Entomology 1932-1944, specialized in fimicolous and cellulose-inhabiting fungi; research mycologist with the Army Corps of engineers Laboratories, Fort Belvoir, Virginia; later at Arlington County as scientific officer in the U.S. Army 1944-1961; in retirement consultant with the National Research Council. **Abbreviated name**: *L. Ames* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.M.Ames*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BPI|BPI]], dupl. [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 50; Bossert p. 9; Hortus 3: 1187; Kew 1: 50; LS 248; Stevenson, p. 1234; TL-2/1: 41; Zander ed. 10, p. 628, ed. 11, p. 713. #### Biofile - Diehl, W.W., Mycologia 59(2): 187-191. 1967 (obit., portr., bibl., b. 14 Jun 1900, Waverly Washington; d. 2 Feb 1966). - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 23. 1981.