> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 232](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212274) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10544-1) LSID 10544-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2086486) QID Q2086486 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thaxter, Roland (1858-1932), American mycologist; A.B. Harvard 1882; Dr. phil. ib. 1888; assistant to W.G. Farlow 1886-1888; with Connecticut Experiment Station 1888-1891; assistant professor Harvard (with W.G. Farlow) 1891-1901, full professor 1901-1919; in retirement at Harvard 1919-1932; travelled in Chile 1905-1906. **Abbreviated name**: *Thaxt.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Thaxt.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection FH|FH]]. – Other material at [[Collection B|B]] (250 slides, prob. destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]] (phan.), [[Collection NYS|NYS]]. *Exsiccatae*: with David Hunt Linder (1899-1946): *Reliquiae Farlowianae*, 10 cent., 1922-1946 (see Stevenson, 1971 for full details; D.H. Linder edited cent. 7-10). Sets at [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CINC|CINC]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DAOM|DAOM]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection LPS|LPS]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OSC|OSC]], [[Collection PAC|PAC]], [[Collection PUR|PUR]], [[Collection RMS|SOLH]], [[Collection TRTC|TRTC]], [[Collection TUR|TUR]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WIS|WIS]]. –*Correspondence, original drawings* and *paintings*: at [[Collection FH|FH]] (see Taxon 31: 607. 1982). Other letters at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection US|US]] (SIA). #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 186, 322, 348; Barnhart 3: 370 (b. 28 Aug 1858, d. 22 Apr 1932); BM 5: 2088, 8: 1297; Bossert p. 397; DAB 18: 398-399; DSB 13: 299-300 (J.M. Lamb); GR, cat. p. 72; Hortus 3: 298; IH 1 (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 344; Kelly p. 225, 258, 259; Lenley p. 408-409; LS 26448-26488, 39879-39895, suppl. 2858, 27582-27604; Moebius p. 457; MW p. 495; NW p. 59; PH 150, 533, 939; SIA 7103; Stevenson p. 1260; TL-2/12.556, see indexes. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 1-4, 1906-1927; Bot. Centralbl. 38: 464. 1889 (mycologist Conn. Exp. Sta.), 47: 223. 1891 (app. Harvard); Harvard Coll., Seventh Rep. Secr., Class 1882, p. 225-227. 1932; Hedwigia 41: (51). 1902 (app. Harvard), 42: (162), (225). 1903 (prix Desmazières), 73: (84). 1933 (d.); Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966, 4: 336-338. 1969 (bibl.); Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 30: 482-483. 1943; Nat. Nov. 11: 133. 1889 (app. Connecticut), 23: 591. 1901 (app. Harvard), 24: 236. 1902 (id.), 29: 175. 1907 (member ed. board Ann. Bot.); Nature 130: 84-85. 1932 (obit.); Österr. bot. Z. 41: 360. 1891 (app. Harvard), 81: 240. 1932 (d.); Rev. bryol. 30(1): 16. 1903 (prix Desmazières); Who's who Amer. 1-18, 1899-1935; Who was who Amer. 1: 1225. 1968. - Buchwald, N.F., Friesia 1(2): 138-139. 1933 (obit. not.). - Cejp, K., Veda Prir. 13: 220. 1932 (d.). - Clinton, G.B., Biogr. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 17(3): 53-68. 1935 (biogr., portr., bibl.). - Dodge, C.W., Ann. Cryptog. exot. 6(1): 1-12. 1933 (obit.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 83. 1969. - Fernald, M.L. et al., Harvard Univ. Gaz. 28(16): 73-74. 1937 (minute on the life and services of R.T.). - Fulford, M., Occas. Pap. Farlow Herb. 16: 67-70. 198 (Thaxter coll. Hepat. Chile). - Goebel, K. v., Jahrb. bayer. Akad. Wiss. 1931/32: 71. 1932 (obit. not.). - Horsfall, J.G., Ann. Rev. Phytopathology 17: 29-36. 1979. - Humphrey, H.B., Makers N. Amer. bot. 244-246. 1961. - Kaye, G.C. & R. Quintero, Taxon 32: 703-704. 1983 (letters T. at FH catalogued). - Litten, W., For the pleasure of the initiate, Farlow Herb. 1983, 8 p. (T. and the Farlow; portr.). - Lloyd, C.G., Mycol. Notes 45: 622. 1917 (portr.). - Matruchot, M., Rev. mycol. 23: 93-102. 1901 (Études de M.R.T. sur les Saprolegniacées...). - Pearsall, W.H., Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isl. Rep. 10(1): 83. 1933 (obit. not.). - Pfister, D.H., *in* Q. Wheeler and M. Blackwell, eds., Fungus-insect relationships 1984, p. 211-221. - Ramsbottom, J., Proc. Linn. Soc. 144: 190-192. 1932. - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. 20-21. 1977, ed. 2. 20, 21, 22, 23, 44, 51, 67, 69. 1981. - Schmid, B. & C. Thesing, Biol.-Kalend. 1: 324. 1914. - Setchell, W.A., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 68: 678-682. 1933. - Tavares, I.I., Laboulbeniales, Braunschweig 1985, p. 7, 418-421. 1985 (dedicated to Th.). - Thaxter, R., Mycologia 14: 99-103. Mai 1922 (on Reliquiae Farlowianae). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 29, 179 (portr.). 1935. - Weston, W.H., Mycologia 25: 69-89. 1933 (obit., portr., bibl.), 317-320. 1933 (on T.'s metal guard for micr. slides); Phytopathology 23: 565-571. 1933 (obit., portr.). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 201-202. *pl. 149.* 1905 (portr.). #### Composite works Editor, *Annals of Botany* 21-46, 1907-1932. #### Eponymy *Thaxteria* P.A. Saccardo (1891); *Thaxteria* A. Giard (1892); *Thaxteriella* Petrak (1924); *Thaxteriellopsis* A. Sivanesan, K.S. Panwer et S.J. Kaur (1976); *Thaxteriola* Spegazzini (1918); *Thaxterogaster* Singer (1951). ### Publications ##### n.14.010. The Entomophthoreae of the United States **Title** *The Entomophthoreae of the United States*... Boston (published by the \[Boston\] Society \[of Natural History\]) 1888. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Entomopht. U.S.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1888, cover-t.p., p. 133-201, err. slip, *pl. 14-21.* (uncol. liths. auct.). *Copies*: BR, FH, G, H, MICH, NY, Stevenson, USDA. – Issued as Mem. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 4(6). 1888. ##### n.14.011. On certain new or peculiar North American Hyphomycetes **Title** *On certain new or peculiar North American Hyphomycetes*... From Botanical Gazette \[1891\]. Oct. **Notes** *1*: Jan 1891, p. \[14\]-26, *pl. 3-4. Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bot. Gaz. 16: \[14\]-26. *pl. 3-4.* 1891. *Copy*: NY. *2*: Jul 1891, p. \[201\]-205, *pl. 19-20. Copy*: NY. – Id. 10: 201-205, *pl. 19-20.* 1891. *3*: 20 Mar 1903, p. 153-159, *pl. 4-5. Copy*: Stevenson. – Id. 35: 153-159, *pl. 4-5.* 1903. ##### n.14.012. Contribution towards a monograph of the Laboulbeniaceae **Title** *Contribution towards a monograph of the Laboulbeniaceae* parts 1-5, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 1896-1931. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Contr. monogr. Laboulb.* **Notes** *1*: Dec 1896, Mem. 12(3): \[187\]-429, *pl. 1-26.* *2*: Jun 1908, Mem. 13(6): 217-469, *pl. 28-71.* *3*: 10 Nov 1924, Mem. 14: 309-426, *pl. 1-12.* *4*: 13 Sep 1926, Mem. 15(4): 427-580, *pl. 1-24.* *5*: 27 Jun 1931, Mem. 16(1): 1-435, *pl. 1-60.* *Copies*: BPI, FH, H, MICH, US; IDC 5382. *Facsimile ed*.: 1971, Bibliotheca mycologica Band 31, with a portrait of Thaxter and an *Introduction and supplement* by R.K. Benjamin (p. 1-155), see also Taxon 20: 373. 1971. *Copies*: FAS, NY. – ISBN 3-7682-0700-5. *French summary* (of part 1): Rev. mycol. 21: 105-114, *pl. 191-196.* 1899, 22: 11-25, *pl. 202.* 1900 (by R. Ferry and H. Schmidt, *Monographie des Laboulbéniacées*). *Preliminary publication* (to *part 1*): Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 25: 5-14. 1890, 25: 261-270. 1891, 27: 29-45. Jun 1892, 28: 156-188. Jun 1893, 29: 92-111. Jan 1894, 30: 467-481. Jan 1895. *Id*. (to *part 2*): see below *Preliminary diagnoses*... 1899-1905. ##### n.14.013. Preliminary diagnoses of new species of Laboulbeniaceae **Title** *Preliminary diagnoses of new species of Laboulbeniaceae* 1-6, 1899-1905. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1899-1905. A series of papers originally published in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. (*Proc.*) 35-41, also labelled Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harvard Univ. (*Contr.*). *Copies*: G, FH, MICH, NY, Stevenson. *1*: Dec 1899, cover-t.p., p. \[151\]-209. – Reprinted and to be cited from *Proc*. 35(9): \[151\]-209. 1899; *Contr*. 41. *2*: Apr 1900, cover-t.p., p. \[407\]-450. – Id. *Proc*. 35(21): \[407\]-450. 1900; *Contr*. 42. *3*: Mar 1901, cover-t.p., p. \[395\]-414. – Id. *Proc*. 36(23): \[395\]-414. 1901; *Contr*. 45. *4*: Jun 1901, cover-t.p., p. \[19\]-45. – Id. *Proc*. 37(2): \[19\]-45. 1901; *Proc*. 47. 5: Jun 1902, cover-t.p., p. \[7\]-57. – Id. *Proc*. 38(2): \[7\]-57. 1902; *Contr*. 50. *6*: Jul 1905, cover-t.p., p. \[301\]-318. – Id. *Proc*. 41(11): \[301\]-318. 1905; *Contr*. 62. ##### n.14.014. Propositions de changements aux lois de la nomenclature botanique **Title** *Propositions de changements aux lois de la nomenclature botanique* de 1867 dont l'adoption est recommandée au Congrès international de nomenclature botanique projeté à Vienne en 1905 par les botanistes attachés à l'Herbier Gray, à l'Herbier Cryptogamique et au Musée botanique de l'Université Harvard... Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.... 1904. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Prop. chang. lois nomencl.* **Notes** *Authors*: Oakes Ames, William Gibson Farlow, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, George Lincoln Goodale, Jesse More Greenman, Edward Charles Jeffrey, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Arthur Bliss Seymour, Roland Thaxter. *Publ*.: 9 Jun 1904, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-32. *Copy*: FAS. ##### n.14.015. Notes on Chilean fungi I **Title** *Notes on Chilean fungi I*.... Reprinted from Botanical Gazette 50, 1910. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 20 Dec 1910, p. 430-442, *pl. 18-19* (uncol. auct.). *Copies*: B, NY, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bot. Gaz. 50: 430-442, *pl. 18-19.* 1910; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 66. ##### n.14.016. New or critical Laboulbeniales from the Argentine **Title** *New or critical Laboulbeniales from the Argentine*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. xlviii. No. 7. – September 1912. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1912, cover-t.p., p. \[153\]-223. *Copies*: BR, MICH, NY, Stevenson. Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 48(7): \[153\]-223. 1912; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 69. ##### n.14.017. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Rickia and Trenomyces **Title** *Preliminary descriptions of new species of Rickia and Trenomyces*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences... 1912. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1912, cover, p. \[i\], \[365\]-386. *Copy*: Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 48(10): \[365\]-386. 1912. – Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harvard Univ. s.n. ##### n.14.018. Laboulbeniales parasitic on Chrysomelidae **Title** *Laboulbeniales parasitic on Chrysomelidae*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences... May, 1914. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1914, cover-t.p., p. \[15\]-50. *Copies*: MICH, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 50(2): \[15\]-50. 1914; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 73. ##### n.14.019. On certain peculiar fungus-parasites of living insects **Title** *On certain peculiar fungus-parasites of living insects*... Reprinted... from The Botanical Gazette... 1914. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Sep 1914, cover-t.p., p. 235-253. *pl. 16-19. Copies*: NY, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bot. Gaz. 58(3): 235-253, *pl. 16-19.* 1914. *Second note*: 22 Jan 1920, p. 1-27, *pl. 1-5. Copies*: NY, Stevenson. – Id. 69(1): 1-27, *pl. 1-5*. 1920. ##### n.14.020. New Indo-Malayan Laboulbeniales **Title** *New Indo-Malayan Laboulbeniales*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences... August 1915. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug 1915, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-51. *Copies*: G, MICH, NY, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 51(1): \[1\]-51. 1915; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 77. ##### n.14.021. New or critical species of Chitinomyces and Rickia **Title** *New or critical species of Chitinomyces and Rickia*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.... June, 1916. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1916, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-54. *Copies*: G, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Arts Sci. 52(1): 1-54. 1916; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 78. ##### n.14.022. New Laboulbeniales **Title** *New Laboulbeniales*, chiefly dipterophilous American species... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.... May 1917. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1917, cover-t.p., p. \[647\]-721. *Copies*: MICH, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 52(10): \[647\]-721. 1917; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 79. ##### n.14.023. Extra-American dipterophilous Laboulbeniales **Title** *Extra-American dipterophilous Laboulbeniales*... Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. Vol. 53. No. 9. – July, 1918. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1918, cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[697\]-749. *Copies*: MICH, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 53(9): \[695\]-749. 1918; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 81. ##### n.14.024. New Laboulbeniales from Chile and New Zealand **Title** *New Laboulbeniales from Chile and New Zealand*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.... September, 1918. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1918, cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[207\]-232. *Copies*: MICH, Stevenson. Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 54(3): \[207\]-232. 1918; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 82. ##### n.14.025. New Dimorphomyceteae **Title** *New Dimorphomyceteae*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.... May, 1920. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1920, cover-t.p., p. \[209\]-282. *Copies*: B, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 55(6): \[209\]-282. 1920; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 87. ##### n.14.026. A revision of the Endogoneae **Title** *A revision of the Endogoneae*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences... 1922. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1922, cover-t.p., p. \[291\]-350, *pl. 1-4. Copies*: NY, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 57(12): \[291\]-350. *pl. 1-4.* 1922. ##### n.14.027. Note on two remarkable Ascomycetes **Title** *Note on two remarkable Ascomycetes*... Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 57. No. 17. – September, 1922. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1922, cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[425\]-436, *pl. 1-2. Copies*: B, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 57(17): \[423\]-436, *pl. 1-2.* 1922; Contr. Crypt. Lab. Harv. Univ. 90 (err. 89).