Gary J. Samuels Papers (PP)

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Biography of Gary J. Samuels

Gary J. Samuels (born 1944) is a mycologist and authority on the taxonomy of the Hypocrealean fungi. He was born in Grove City, PA and obtained his B.Sc. (1966) in botany at the Pennsylvania State University and M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) in biology at Columbia University. During his graduate education he held a fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden. He studied under Clark T. Rogerson and completed a dissertation on the taxonomy of the genus Nectriopsis. In 1973 Dr. Samuels joined the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Plant Diseases Division and continued his studies of the Hypocreales. He became a Research Associate of the NYBG in 1985. Dr. Samuels has conducted extensive fieldwork in South America and New Zealand and has compiled An Annotated Index to the Mycological Writings of Franz Petrak. He is currently employed as a research botanist by the USDA Agriculture Research Service (Systematic Botanical and Mycological Laboratory) in Beltsville, Maryland where he has conducted research on the Hypocrea schweinitzii complex, phylogenetic analysis of ascomycetes, and the genus Trichoderma as a biological control agent.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, photographs, and personal papers covering portions of Dr. Samuels’ career with the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the NYBG, and the USDA Agriculture Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland.

Restrictions

Access restrictions

This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.

Copyright

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be submitted in writing to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.

Related Material

New York Botanical Garden

RG4--Kent Dumont Records

RG4--Clark T. Rogerson Records

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Gary J. Samuels Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.

Acquisition Information

Dr. Gary Samuels donated the collection to the New York Botanical Garden in June 2000.

Processing Information

Originally processed by David Rose, Archives Assistant, January 2001 with grant funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 23141-98) and the Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation. Converted to EAD in August 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).

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