WILLIAM GILSON FARLOW 
partly as a graduate student at Strasbourg. For several years after his 
return home he taught in the Bussey Institution of Harvard University as 
assistant professor of botany; but from 1879 until his retirement from 
active service in 1896 he taught in Cambridge, with the title of professor of 
cryptogamic botany, which he held up to the time of his death, when he had 
become the senior member of the faculty. 
Publications 
The following list of Dr. Farlow's publications has been prepared from 
memoranda furnished by Mr. A. P. D. Piguet and is as nearly complete as 
it has been possible to make it, except that none of his numerous reviews of 
books and articles have been included. 
1871. Cuban seaweeds. Amer. Nat. 5: 201. 
1872. Marine algae. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14: 64. 
1873. List of the seaweeds or marine algae of the south coast of New 
England. Rept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1871-2: 281. 
1874. Notes from the journal of a botanist in Europe I. Amer. Nat. 
•8: I. H. Amer. Nat. 8: 112. HI. Amer. Nat. 8: 295. 
An asexual growth from the prothallus of Pteris cretica. Bot. Zeit. 
32:181. 
The same. Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci. H, 14: 266. 
An asexual growth from the prothallus of Pteris serrulata. Proc. 
Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. 9: 68. 
1875. List of the marine algae of the United States, with notes of new and 
imperfectly known species. Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 351. 
The potato rot. Bull. Bussey Inst, i: 319-338. 
1876. Gustave Thuret. Journ. Bot. 14:4. 
Fungi heaped up in pines by squirrels. Amer. Nat. 10: 112. 
On a disease of olive and orange trees occurring in California in the 
spring of 1875. Bull. Bussey Inst, i: 404. Abstr. in Journ. Bot. 
14: 287. 
The same. Monthly Micr. Journ. 16: in. 
The same. Amer. Journ. Sci. HI, 12: 37. 
On the American grape vine mildew. Bull. Bussey Inst, i : 415, 
Synopsis of the Peronosporeae of the United States. Bull. Bussey 
Inst. 1 : 426. 
List of fungi found in the vicinity of Boston. Bull. Bussey Inst. 
1 : 430. 
The black knot. Bull. Bussey Inst, i: 440. 
University instruction in botany. Amer. Nat. 10: 287. 
Spores of Blodgettia confervoides . Amer. Naturalist 10: 428. 
Algae; in Contributions to the natural history of Kerguelen Island. 
Part II. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 3: 30. 
