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### Author
Snell, Walter Henry (1889-1980), American mycologist; baseball player for Yale, Brown and Boston; studied botany at Brown Univ. from 1913; professional baseball player 1913-1916; forest pathologist Madison Wisc., 1918-1920; Dr. phil. Madison Wisc. 1920; forest pathologist with the New York State Department of Conservation from 1920; professor of botany at Brown University 1920-1959; emeritus professor id. from 1959.
**Abbreviated name**: *Snell* \[standard form in IPNI: *Snell*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BPI|BPI]]; further material at [[Collection KIRI|KIRI]] (teaching coll.), [[Collection MICH|MICH]]. – Some original drawings of *Boletus* at [[Collection MICH|MICH]]; library at [[Collection BRU|BRU]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 297 (b. 19 Mai 1889); BM 8: 1210; Bossert p. 375; IH 1 (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 343; Kelly p. 216; Roon p. 106; Stevenson p. 1258; Tucker 3: 287.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Who's who Amer. 27-32. 1952-1963; Who's who New England 3: 1175-1176. 1938.
- Barry, J., Gentlemen under the elms, published by Brown Alumni Monthly 1982, p. 111-123 (biogr., portr., d. 23 Jul 1980).
- Cattell, J.M. ed., Amer. men Sci. eds. 3-11, 1921-1967.
- Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 50, 63, 64. 1981.
- Rogerson, C.T., Mycologia index volumes 1-58. 1968, p. 1055-1056.
- Snell, W.H., Publications 1919-1971, mimeographed, 3 p.
### Publications
##### n.12.321. Notes on Boletes
**Title**
*Notes on Boletes*. i-xiv. Reprinted from Mycologia, vols. xxiv-liii, 1932-1961.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: *A* series of publications in Mycologia, reprinted with cover-t.p., and original pagination. Sets of reprints at FH and NY. – For actual dates of publication see C.T. Rogerson (1968).
*1*: 2 Mai 1932, in Mycologia 24(3): 334-341.
*2*: 1 Jun 1933, in 25(3): 221-232.
*3*: 1 Aug 1934, in 26(4): 348-359.
*4*: 1 Feb 1936, in 28(1): 12-23.
*5*: 1 Oct 1936, in 28(5): 463-475.
*6*: 1 Feb 1941, in 33(1): 23-37; co-author: Esther A. Dick.
*7*: 7 Jun 1945, in 37(3): 374-388.
*8*: 3 Jul 1951, in 43(3): 359-364; co-authors: Esther A. Dick and Lexemuel Ray Hesler.
*9*: 2 Mai 1956, in 48(2): 302-310; co-author: Esther A. Dick.
*10*: 4 Apr 1958, in 50(1): 57-65; co-author: Esther A. Dick.
*11*: 4 Mai 1960, in 51(4): 564-577; co-authors: Rolf Singer and Esther A. Dick.
*12*: 2 Jun 1961, in 52(1): 130-136; co-author: Esther A. Dick.
*13*: 8 Aug 1961, in 52(3): 444-454; co-author: Esther A. Dick.
*14*: 18 Apr 1962, in 53(3): 228-236; co-author: Esther A. Dick.
*Final publication*: W.H. Snell and E.A. Dick, *The Boleti of Northeastern North America*, Lehre (J. Cramer) 1970, 115 p., *87 pl*. col.), see Taxon 20: 180. 1971. – ISBN 3-7682-0681-5.
##### n.12.322. Tentative keys to the Boletaceae
**Title**
*Tentative keys to the Boletaceae* of the United States and Canada... Publication number 1 of The Rhode Island Botanical Club Providence, R.I. \[1936\].
**Abbreviated title**: *Tent. keys Boletac.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Jan 1936 (FH and NY copies rd 1 Feb 1936; Mycologia 1 Apr 1936), p. \[1\]-25, loose err. slip. *Copies*: FH, NY.
##### n.12.323. Three thousand mycological terms
**Title**
*Three thousand mycological terms*... Publication no. 2 of The Rhode Island Botanical Club, Providence, R.I. 1936. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Mycol. terms*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1936 (p.: 1 Jun 1936), p. \[1\]-151, *pl. 1-12* (on 6; uncol.; Henry A.C. Jackson).
*Copies*: FH, MO, NY, US, USDA.