MYCOLOGIGAL NOTES 



Issued by C. G. LLOYD. 



224 West Court Street, - - CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. A little personal interest on the part 

 of the recipient in picking up and sending to my address, specimens of 

 the larger fungi. All are desired excepting specimens of fleshy Agarics. 

 Simply dry the specimens and send them in. 



PROFESSOR ROLAND THAXTER. 



The photograph we present is that of the best known of 

 specialists working on American mycology. Professor Thaxter occu- 

 pies the chair of Cryptogamic Botany at Harvard University, where 

 he graduated in 1882. For about twenty-five years he has had charge 

 of the students in mycology in Harvard University. Professor 

 Thaxter is the world's authority on the class of fungi known as 

 Laboulbeniaceae. These fungi are minute species, attaching them- 

 selves to the bodies of beetles, flies and other insects. They were 

 practically unknown to the world until Professor Thaxter became 

 interested in them, and he has devoted his life to their study. He 

 has discovered, named and illustrated several hundred species, and 

 is not only the world's authority on the subject, but he is the only 

 one who really knows anything about it at all. In pursuit of his 

 studies he has worked over not only the mycological section in the 

 museums of Europe, but also the entomological section, and has 

 traveled and collected extensively in foreign countries, such as the 

 West Indies and South America. In addition to this, he has in- 

 dustriously collected Cordyceps and hypogeal fungi, and has ac- 

 cumulated more material in these families than can be found in any 

 other collection. He has never published on these subjects, but has 

 in view a publication, when he has finished with the Laboulbeniaceae. 



Professor Thaxter is now in his fifty-ninth year, quiet and re- 

 served. It is always a pleasure to meet him. On our rare visits 

 to Harvard we have always enjoyed a visit with him. The photo- 

 graph that we present was taken four or five years ago, but is an ex- 

 cellent likeness of him to-day. 



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