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THE FOUNDING OF MYCOLOGY 



also laid, especially by Berkeley (1837), Kiihn (1858), de Bary 

 (1866), Hartig (1874), Woronin (1878), and Brefeld (1884- 



FiG. 3. Professor William G. Farlow (1858-1926), the first to occupy a 

 chair of cryptogamic botany in the United States. His influence, although 

 centered at Harvard University, radiated widely, for he and his students 

 have been a major influence in guiding the course of mycological de- 

 velopment. 



1912). These investigators established such now generally ac- 

 cepted facts as that Phytophthora infestmis is causally related to 

 late blight of potatoes, that the aecia on barberry are genetically 



