Edward Jacob Forster Index Agaricinorum et Boletorumi: An Index Catalogue of American Agarics & Boleti
Scope and Content
Bound volume with handwritten notes on American Agarics and Boleti by Edward Jacob Forster, 1887.
The handwritten title page reads: An Index Catalogue of American Agarics & Boleti; Being a list of such species as have been found in the United States, with references to catalogues and descriptions, compiled by Edward J. Forster, Boston, 1887.
The preface page notes: It is confidentiality believed the following bibliography contains [indecipherable] references to Agarics and Boleti found to date (1887) growing in the United States. Names of species inclosed with brackets are either synonyms or obsolete. Preceding the alphabetical index of Agarics, the species of this genus and of Cortinarius will be found arranged by subgenera. Following the bibliography an attempt has been made to arrange the references chronologically.
Dates
- Creation: 1887
Creator
- Forster, Edward Jacob, 1846-1896 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research by appointment. Researchers must register and provide one form of valid photo identification. Please contact botref@oeb.harvard.edu for additional information.
Extent
1 VolumeBiographical note
Dr. Edward Jacob Forster was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on July 9, 1846, to Jacob and Louisa Webb Forster. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1868 and continued his studies in Paris and at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. On September 5, 1871, he married Anita Damon Lyon, with whom he had 3 daughters. He enlisted in active military service with the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1864 and in 1895 he was appointed Surgeon General of Massachusetts. He was a member of several medical societies and served as treasurer of the Massachusetts Medical Society and was a member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He died suddenly due to a stroke while aboard the steamboat Puritan traveling from New York to Boston on May 15, 1896.
Burrage, Walter Lincoln. 1923. A History of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Norwood MA: The Plimpton Press.
Provenance
Probably part of the Willey Collection, gift of V.A. Clarke from Clark University, Worcester.
Processing Information
Processed by Victorya Dube, 2023, April
Creator
- Forster, Edward Jacob, 1846-1896 (Person)
- Title
- Forster, Edward Jacob 1846-1896. Edward Jacob Forster Index Agaricinorum et Boletorumi: An Index Catalogue of American Agarics & Boleti, 1887: A Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2023 April
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- far00069
Repository Details
Part of the Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University Repository
The Harvard University Herbaria houses five research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. The Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany specializes in organisms that reproduce by spores, without flowers or seeds. The Archives of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany houses unique resources including personal papers, institutional records, field notes and plant lists, expedition records, photographs, original artwork, and objects from faculty, curators, staff, and affiliates of the Farlow Herbarium.
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