Arrangement

Indexing Terms

Series 1. Correspondence.

Scope and Content:

There are 9 containers of correspondence organized by individual, organization, and subject that relates to professional and scientific subjects, including research, publication, specimen collection and identification, and education. Notable correspondents include Howard and Margaret Barr Bigelow, William Bridge Cooke, Oswaldo and Marie Fidalgo, H. M. Fitzpatrick, Richard P. Korf, Josiah L. Lowe, Lindsay Olive, Ronald H. Petersen, Gary Samuels, Robert L. Shaffer, Rolf Singer, Alexander H. Smith, and Stanley J. Smith. Three files of correspondence (1992-96) are organized chronologically. Correspondence is also located in pertinent files of the series described below.

Series 2. Mycologia

Scope and Content:

There are 69 files of correspondence, reports, reviews, membership and subscription lists, and publication materials relating to Mycologia and the Mycological Society of America (MSA). Nineteen files contain typescripts and correspondence of authors with publications in the monograph series, Mycologia Memoirs. Notable correspondence includes that with Lancaster Press (Robert H. Mann) and other publishing companies as well as Mycologia editors Margaret Barr Bigelow, Robert W. Lichtwardt, and Robert L. Shaffer.

Cash, Edith K.
Gerdemann" Trappe
Goos, Roger
Halling, Roy
Hesler, L. R.
Hesseltine, Clifford (not published)
Koyama mss.
Larsen, Michael J.
Reddy" Kramer
Rossman, Amy
Tavares, Isabelle
Wehmeyer

Hesseltine, Clifford
Heffernan Press
History
Inquiries

Series 3. Research Papers.

Scope and Content:

There are 22 boxes of research papers that consist of specimen lists, laboratory records, dichotomous keys, index cards, and notes on fungi, authors, forays, cultures, collections, and other mycological topics. There are 7 files relating to cultures of fungi cultivated by ants (Neal Weber series); 50 files (notebooks) of culture records (1959-1996); 3 files of field notes on collections from the Philippine Islands (1945) and the Solomon Islands (1944-45); 3 files of a host index of Utah fungi; 20 files of specimen lists of species of Hypomyces; 22 files of lists and notes pertaining to mycological forays; and an accession book to Dr. Rogerson's personal herbarium. Several files contain data on collections of neotropical fungi collected by Bassett Maguire, Gary Samuels, and others. There is a list of collection locations, a type specimen register, and an index to a portion of the color slide collection (see Series 9: Graphic Material).

The index cards (14 boxes) consist of indices to Hypocreales, Peck collection, New York collection, cultures, fungicolous fungi, and others. There is a partial host index for Mycologia (vols 59-73) and two sequences of the Torrey Botanical Club index organized by genus.

Adirondack Fern Foray, 1988
Andrews Foray
Blomquist Bryological Foray, / Liverworts of Roan Mountain, 1985
Connecticut-Westchester Mycological Association (COMA) Foray, (2 files), 1977-1991
Daniel Stuntz Foray, 1974
Maryland, 1966
Mid-Atlantic Foray, 1988
Mycological Society of America (MSA) Foray
North American Mycological Association (NAMA) Foray, 1977-1990
Northeast Mycological Federations (NEMF) Forays, 1979-1992
Ohio, 1968
Oklahoma, 1979
Peck Foray (3 files)
Quebec, 1959
Smith, 1987-1988
Texas Mycological Society, 1982
West Coast, 1970

Annotated checklists of the fungi reported from Kansas (preliminary draft), 1961
Ascomycetes of Kansas, 1956
Bartholomew, Elam "The Fungous Flora of Kansas" (annotated), 1927
Cercospora
Checklist of duplicate specimens to National Fungus Collection
Checklist of Kansas fungi, addenda
Erysiphaceae (powdery mildews)
Flora of Kansas - Frank C. Gates (corrected copy), 1940
Helminthosporium
Hyphomycetes
Kansas Academy of Science Abstracts (1996); "The Great Flood of 1951" (pamphlet)
Kay, Richard A Checklist of Kansas Mushrooms, 1989
Mycological Herbarium, Kansas State College, 1957
Notes and correspondence on fungi and collections

Peronosporaceae
Phytopathological notes
Plant Disease Reporter, checklist
Specimens of Albugo in New York from Kansas (1963); Key to Albugo
Taphrina
Uredinales (rust fungi)
Ustilaginales (smut fungi)

Agaricales
Ascomycete orders and families
Boletaceae
Boletaceae (Daniel Stuntz)
Clavariaceae (Peterson / Stuntz)
Cleistothecial fungi (synoptic key)
Elaphomyces (Japanese species)
Families of Moniliales

Fistulinaceae and Porotheleaceae (Daniel Stuntz)
Fungi (Kauffman)
Hypocreaceae
Hypocreales revised from Rogerson (Rossman, Amy) 1970
Operculate Discomycetes (Wm C. Denison, 1962) (preliminary key)
Pezizales (Korf, 1968) (synoptic key)
Phaeosphaeria (Leuchtmann)
Rhodophylloid fungi (Largent)

Tremellales (Stuntz, 1963)

Collybia in the northeast U.S. (Roy E. Halling, 1982)
Crocicreas
Cyathicula (revised key, 1978)
Didymosphaeria
Fusarium
Hygrophorus in the northeastern U.S.
Hymenochaete
Lanzia (lab key)
Lepiota (1978; 1982)
Marasmius (southeastern U.S.)
Mycena in the northeastern U.S. (1983)
Pholiota in the northeastern U.S. (1982)
Pleurotus in North Carolina (William C. Coker, 1944)
Poculum (lab key)
Stropharia

A-Z (4 files)
Amanita (including keys)
Anthracobia
Armillaria
Broomella
Catulus
Colletotrichum
Cryptoascus
Curvularia on Ophioglossum
Cytospora
Dark-spored agarics (including keys)
Deuteromycetes, new species
Diaporthaceae
Didymella (Corbaz, R.)
Discesida
Erysiphales (3 files)
Exobasidium
Ganoderma (Steyaert, R. L.)
Gasteromycetes
Geastrum
Helminthosporium
Hypoxylon
Leptosphaeria
Leveillula
Marine fungi
Microsphaera
Microthyriales
Nectria, subgenus Dialonectria
OidiumOlpittrichum
Omphalinoid Tricholomataceae
Pestalotia (Steyaert, R. L.)
Pezicula
Peziza
Phaeosphaeria
Phallales (Zeller)
Plectomycetes
Polypores and relatives
Poria cocos
Pseudopezizoideae
Puccinia on Oxalis
Pyrenopeziza (Huller)
Rosellinia
Scleroderma

Scutellinia
Septoria
Sphaerotheca
Stereum
Tulostoma
Xylariaceae

Arnold, Gunter R. W.
Arnold, Gunter R. W. re: Cuba
Arnold, Gunter R. W. re: Hypomycetaceae, 1971
Arx, von
Barr, Margaret E.
Cain
Chadefaud, Marius
Clements & Shear
Cooke, M. C.
Demoulin re: Lycoperdon
Dennis, R. W. G. re: discomycetes (not tropical)
Dennis, R. W. G. re: Hyaloscyphaceae
Donk
Gaumann
Groves, J. Walton
Holm, Lennart re: taxonomic notes on ascomycetes
Karsten
Korf, Richard P.
Kreisel
Lindner, D. H. re: helicosporous fungi and Oidium
Luttrell re: Helminthosporium
Martin, Philip re: Hypoxylon
Mix, A. J. re: Taphrina
Moller
Muller, Emil
Nannfeldt
Parguey-Leduc
Plant pathogens
Rehm
Rick
Saccardo
Schroeter
Spegazzini

H. armeniacus
H. auranticus
H. banningiae
H. broomeanus
H. brunneus
H. camphoratus
H. chrysospermus
H. hyalinus
H. hymenii
H. lactifluorum
H. lateritus
H. luteovirens
H. papyraceus
H. porotheliiformis
H. rosellus
H. sepulcralis
H. sulphureus
H. transformans
H. tulasneanus
Excluded species

Alain Liogier collections, Dominican Republic, 1968-1969
Bassett Maguire collections, South America
Bassett Maguire expeditions, 1965-1978
Cerro de la Neblina, et al. (Gary Samuels)
Dominican Republic
Ghillean Prance collections, 1976
Fungi Guyana (master list)
Guyana
Guyana highlands
Guyana lichens
Guyana to genus
Hypocreales of Venezuela
Neblina collections, 1985-1990
Miscellaneous
Philippine & Solomon Islands, 1944-1945

Ascomycetes (except Hypocreales)
Basidiomycetes
Coelomycetes
Hyphomycetes (2 files)
Hypocreales
NectriaPhycomycetes

Correspondence
Guidelines and instructions for preparation of monographs
Monograph series
Monograph, Dodge, C. W.
Monograph #6, Lowy, B.
Monograph #22, Sleumer, H.
Monograph #23, Hansen, B.
Monograph #24, Hennen, J.
Monograph #25, Gentry, A.
Monograph #30, Gates, B.
Monograph #31, Kubitzki & Renner
Monograph #32, Singer, R.
Monograph #33, Kaastra, R.
Monograph #34, Daniel, T.
Monograph #35, Luteyn, J.
Monograph #36, Funk
Monograph #37, Paden, J.
Printed reviews

Series 4. Education Materials.

Scope and Content:

This series consists of (1) lecture and field notes of Dr. Rogerson's graduate education at Cornell University (1942-1950), and (2) course outlines, correspondence, notices of appointment, meeting minutes, and attendance records relating to courses that he taught at Columbia University, CUNY Lehman College, Kansas State College, and the Garden. The latter pertain to courses in biology, mycology, cryptogamic botany, and mushroom identification. The Cornell University lecture notes include plant pathology courses taught by H. M. Fitzpatrick and Richard P. Korf and a lecture by Ernst A. Bessey entitled "Phylogeny of the Fungi".

Fall, 1971
Fall, 1978
Fall, 1984
Fall, 1987

Correspondence
Department of Biological Sciences, memoranda and notices
Department of Biological Sciences, NSF proposal
Notices of appointment as Adjunct Professor of Botany

Plant Pathology 121: Comparative Morphology of Fungi, Cornell, Fitzpatrick, 1946
Plant Pathology 121: Comparative Morphology of Fungi, Cornell, Richard P. Korf
Plant Pathology 222: Hymenomycetes, Gasteromycetes, Cornell, H. M. Fitzpatrick
Plant Pathology 222: Rusts, Smuts, Fungi Imperfecti, Cornell, H. M. Fitzpatrick

Series 5. Research Grants.

Scope and Content:

There are 55 files of grant proposals to the National Science Foundation and one file each to the National Geographic Society and National Institutes of Health. Several NSF proposals pertain to research of Dr. Rogerson and associates (Gary Samuels, et al.); however, most pertain to his review and evaluation of grant proposals as an independent reviewer for the NSF. Reports and correspondence relating to the review of grants accompanies the proposals and attachments

Addendum to Raper & Thom's Manual of the Penicillia, 1967
Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome…from Fusarium solani, 1986
Arachnopezizeae, 1979
Ascomycetes of Venezuela
Boletales, 1986
Capnodium fungi, 1983
Cyperaceae, 1965
Dermocybe, 1988
Development Morphology of Ascomycetes, 1970
Diatrype (genus), 1986
Endothia (genus), 1977
Epigeous and Hypogeous Pezizales, 1990

Series 6. New York Botanical Garden.

Scope and Content:

There are 61 files relating to administrative, curatorial, and editorial responsibilities at the NYBG. Ten files contain a complete series of annual reports of the cryptogamic herbarium from 1951 to 1983. There are related reports on the herbarium (vascular plants), Garden journals, and specimen exchange. Nineteen files pertain to Dr. Rogerson's editorship of Flora Neotropica; these contain texts and correspondence with the authors of monographs in the series. Remaining material consists of correspondence, notes, and reports relating to NYBG committees, staff, and departments. There are two files of correspondence and memoranda with William C. Steere.

Applicants Aptroot, Andre, 1987
Boise, Jean R., 1984
Brako, Lois, 1985
Carpenter, Steven E., 1979
Chamuris, George and Bills, Gerald, 1984
General
Glass, Peter M., 1962
Guerrero, Rosa T., 1964
Isaacs, Bill F., 1963
Iturriaga, Teresita, 1985
Johnson, Peter, 1987
Lowen, Rosalind, 1987
Martin, Philip M. D., 1963
Methven, Andrew S., 1986
Sister Little Flower, 1981
Vilgalys, Rytal J., 1983

Series 7. Manuscripts & Typescripts.

Scope and Content:

There are 102 files of manuscripts and typescripts, primarily of published articles by Dr. Rogerson, Gary Samuels, their co-authors, and associates on the identification, physiology, and taxonomy of the fungi. There is one manuscript and typescript of Dr. Rogerson's Ph.D. dissertation "Studies in the genus Hypomyces." One file contains a numbered series (incomplete) of reprints of published articles. Other authors include Margaret Barr Bigelow and Fred Seaver.

• "Nectriella pironii sp nov and its kutilakesa-like anamorph…"

•"An unusual variety of Choanerphora from New Guinea" 1961

• "Herpotrichia and its segregates"
• "The nonlichenized North American taxa of Melanommatales" 1990 (2 files)
• "Notes on some 'Dimeriaceous' fungi" 1996
• Prodromus to nonlichenized, pyrenomycetous members of Class Hymenoacomycetes
• "The Pyrenomycetes described by J. B. Ellis" 1996
• "Revisions and additions to the Diaporthales" 1990
• "The Venturiaceae in North America" (annotated; revisions)
• & Rogerson "Two new species of Loculoascomycetes" 1982

• "An annotated catalogue of the Pyrenomycetes described by…Peck" 1986
• ibid, NY State Museum Bulletin No. 459

• "From 'Abreviata' to 'Xylophilus': An alphabetic excursion through the species of Pyrenomycetes described by Charles Horton Peck" 1973 (2 files)

•"The Zygomycetes" 1977

• "A new North American species: Physalacria cryptomeriae" 1981

• "Speciation in the genus Humicola"

• "Robiniomyces on black locust" 1996

• "Index to type specimens for Loculascomycetes described by J. B. Ellis" 1986

•"Effects of light and ultraviolet radiation on . . . Verticillium" 1963

•"Notes on the nutrition of Saccharomycopsis guttulata…" 1961

•"Xylariaceae of India - VII. The genus Rosellinia" 1978

•"The Hypocreales of New Zealand" et al

• "A preliminary chemosystematic investigation of eleven species of Nectria"
• "A preliminary chemosystematic investigaton of the genus Nectria" Ph. D. thesis 1971

• "Ultrastructure of the mycelium of Phytophthora infestans…" 1965

• "Contribution to the taxonomy and pathology of … Verticillium spp." 1981

•"Cytology of four yeastlike organisms in tissue explants" 1965

• "A Review of the anamorph genus Helicomyces"

• "Identification of airborne fungus spores" 1972

•"Studies in the Hyaloscyphaceae III: … Lachnum" 1984

•"Preservation of fungi by freeze-drying"

•"Studies on fungi cultivated by ants" 1977

•"Mid-American mushrooms: an introduction to the fungi of Kansas" 1992

•"Disposition of Stilbum rhizomorpharum under Pseudographiella" 1984

•"Growth of Diplodia zeae in shaker culture" 1965

•"Kansas mushrooms: a checklist" 1988

•"Travis E. Brooks, 1917-1976"

•"Current trends in the classification of Discomycetes"

•"A survey on keratinolytic or keratophilic molds from soil in Japan" 1961

•"Fine structure of Calvatia gigantea…" 1964

•"Mushroom Workbook" 1976

•"Homothallism in and undescribed species of Cochliobolus…"

•"Pulvaria, a new genus of Xylariaceae (Ascomycetes)" 1976

•"A new species of Allomyces (Reticulatus) from South Dakota" 1963

•"Pathological Herbarium Notes" 1920 Office of Pathological Collections

•"Observations on living vegetative nuclei of Chalara paradoxa…"

•"Production of indoleacetic acid by Cephaliophora tropica" 1965

•"Progress report: botanical exploration in Guyana" 1986

•"Developmental morphology of uredospores in Hemileia vastatrix" 1964

•"Franz Petrak 1886-1973" 1974

•"The Bitunicate ascus paradigm" 1987

•"Leaf-cutting ants and their fungus gardens" 1971

•"Xylaria bulbosa, X. curta, and X. longipes in the continental U.S."

• • "Additional collections of plantain scab and violet scab…" 1952
• "Basidiomycetous mushrooms from Utah" 1984
• "Botanical exploration in New York State: Fungi" 1960
• "Classification of the Ascomycetes" 1968
• "Collection and microscopic study of macrofungi" 1971
• "Coral mushrooms"
• "Directory of local mycologists" 1961
• "Diseases of grass in Kansas: 1953-55" 1956
• "Flora of the Dryden Area, NY" 1948
• "Fred J. Seaver 1877-1970" 1973
• "Fungi of Kansas. Basidiomycetes. Uredinales" 1962 (unpublished)

• "The Hypocrealean fungi (Ascomycetes, Hypocreales)"
• "Kansas mycological notes: 1951" 1953
• "Kansas mycological notes: 1951 and 1952" 1953
• "Kansas mycological notes: 1957" 1958
• "New names and new taxa of fungi proposed by Fred Jay Seaver (1877-1970)" 1973
• "Oak wilt in seven Kansas counties" 1952
• "Plant disease notes for 1955" 1957
• "Publications of Fred Jay Seaver (1877-1970)" 1973
• "Recent changes in mushroom names" 1986
• reprints, numbered series
• "Stem rust of Merion bluegrass in Kansas" 1953
• "Studies in the genus Hypomyces" Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1950 (manuscript)
• "Studies in the genus Hypomyces" Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1950 (typescript)
• "Synopsis of ascomycetes with dimiate, scutate or radiate ascocarps" 1962
• "A 'Tuckahoe' found in Kansas" 1954
• "Underwoodia in Kansas" 1952
• "Useful methods for the study of fungi"
• & Samuels "Mycology at the NYBG (1895-1995)" 1996
• "Species of Hypomyces and Nectria occurring on discomycetes" 1985

•"A significant variant of Microsporum gypseum" 1964

• "Annotated index to the Hypocrealean fungi reported for the American tropics"
• "The conidiogenous cell and taxonomy of nonlichenized ascomycetes" 1987
• "Four new species of Nectria and the Chaetopsina anamorphs"
• "The neotropical, Hypocrealean fungi. A workshop guide" 1977 Internat'l Mycol Cong II
• "Notes on isolation of solitary ascospores, a field guide"
• "Synoptic key [and tables] to species of Nectria in the American tropics" 1982 (unpubl'd)
• "Tropical Hypocreales" 1995
•, Candoussau, & Magni "Fungicolous pyrenomycetes 1. Helminthosphaeria…"
• et al. "Fungicolous pyrenomycetes 2. Ascocodinaea . . . and Litschaueria" 1996
• & Dumont "The genus Nectria (Hypocreaceae) in Panama"
• & Keith Seifert "The impact of molecular characters on systematics of filamentous ascomycetes" 1995
• & Seifert "Taxonomic implications of variation among Hypocrealean anamorphs"
• & D. J. Lodge "Rogersonia, a new genus of the Hypocreales" 1996
• & Rogerson "Mycology at the New York Botanical Garden (1895-1995)" 1996
• & Rogerson "New ascomycetes from Amazonas"
• & Rogerson "New ascomycetes from the Guayana highland"
• & Rogerson "Some ascomycetes (fungi) occurring on tropical ferns" 1989
•, Rogerson, Rossman, & Smith "Nectria tuberculariformis…" 1983

•"Conidia and classification of the nectrioid fungi"

• "Fungi in their relation to man"
• "List of subjects in motion picture[s] of the NYBG"
• "Publications of F. S. Earle"
• "Publications of W. A. Murrill"
• various essays, talks, and bibliographies

•"…on hallucinogenic Agarics and the hallucinations of those who study them"

• "Notes on the fleshy fungi of Kansas" 1952

•"Fungi associated with sorghum seed in Kansas" 1962

• "The effect of alpha-tocopherol . . . in Choanephora cucurbitarum" 1964

Series 8. Affiliations.

Scope and Content:

There are seven files of correspondence and reports relating to affiliations with organizations such as the Highlands (NC) Biological Station, the Kansas Academy of Science, and the North American Mycological Association.

Series 9. Graphic Material.

Scope and Content:

The graphic material consists of Kodachrome slides, photographs, negatives, pencil sketches, and watercolor illustrations. There are five boxes of color slides (packed in smaller slide boxes within) of a wide variety of macro- and microfungi, including the Hypocreales. The photographs relate to correspondence, published papers, monographs in the Flora Neotropica and Mycologia Memoirs series, and the work of Dr. Rogerson's associates and students. There are several portraits, including those of Dr. Rogerson with other Garden staff. One box contains pencil sketches of species of Hypomyces. There is one photoengraving plate.

Hypomyces sp nov N29JS [see Box 14: Drawing record to sketches: notebook]
Hypomyces sp nov GJS 74-61
Hypomyces polyporinus et al.
Hypomyces spores
Hypomyces boletides
Hypocrea et al. (by Charles C. Clare, 1962)
Hypomyces plates (with notes)
Hypomyces spores et al. (with notes)
Hypomyces (by Charles C. Clare, 1971) (2 files)
Sepedonium chrysospermum
Nectria rexiana (with notes) [see slides]
Hypomyces spores (by Charles C. Clare, 1969)
Fungicolous Hyphomycetes

Series 10. Personal Papers.

Scope and Content:

There are three files consisting of personal correspondence and biographical information.

Series 11. Certificates & Awards.

Scope and Content:

There are 7 files containing certificates and mounted awards. Two relate to the Garden's Distinguished Service Award (1984); one of these is framed. Three mounted awards relate to Mycological Society of America and to the North American Mycological Association.

Series 12. Specimen Material.

Scope and Content: