Donald P. Rogers records

Donald P. Rogers (1908-2001), a cryptogamic botanist and mycologist, served as Curator of the Cryptogamic Herbarium from 1947 to 1957. He specialized in the study of the toxicology and morphology of Basidiomycetes with a particular interest in Thelephoraceae. Dr. Rogers was an active member of the Mycological Society of America and served as managing editor of the journal Mycologia.

Born in 1908 in Toledo, Ohio, he received his BA from Oberlin College in 1929, his MA in 1930 from the University of Nebraska and his PhD in 1935 from the University of Iowa.

Dr. Rogers began his career as an Assistant in Botany at the University of Nebraska from 1929-1930 and a Graduate Assistant in Botany from 1931-1935 at the University of Iowa. He studied at Harvard University in 1936 as a National Research Fellow and took a position as Instructor in Botany at Oregon State College from 1936-1940. He moved to Brown University as an Instructor in Botany from 1941-1942 and went to American International College to serve as Associate Professor of Biology from 1942-1945. In 1945 he received a scholarship which brought him to the NYBG to study. Later that same year he accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Botany at the University of Hawaii. He left the University of Hawaii in 1947 to come to the NYBG. In 1957 he left the NYBG to become Professor of Botany at the University of Illinois.