Howard E. Bigelow papers
Scope and Contents
This collection is concerned with Dr. Bigelow’s fungi collections and especially his monograph on the Clitocybe and Tricholomataceae genera. It was donated to the NYBG by Dr. Roy Halling along with the herbarium of Dr. Bigelow from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Botany, whose fungi collection it is also concerned with. It consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, index cards, notebooks and research notes.
Dates
- 1957-1983
Biographical / Historical
Howard E. Bigelow (1923-1987), a mycologist whose specialty was the agaric mycota of the New England area, was a very active member of the Mycological Society of America and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Department of Botany from 1957 to 1983.
Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, he attended Oberlin College from 1941-1943. He left to fight in WW2 and returned to Oberlin in 1946. He received his BA in 1949 and his MA in 1951. He went on to study botany at the University of Michigan under the guidance of Alexander H. Smith and received his PhD in 1956. He is most known for his monograph on the Clitocybe and Tricholomataceae genera.
Extent
6.4 Linear Feet (10 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
- Title
- Howard E. Bigelow papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Stephen Sinon
- Date
- January 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Originally processed by Stephen Sinon, Assistant Archivist, January 2000. Converted into EAD in December 2005 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) PA-50678-04.
Revision Statements
- December 2005: Converted to EAD by Kathleene Konkle.
Repository Details
Part of the New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Archives Repository
New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Library
2900 Southern Boulevard
Bronx NY 10458 United States
ssinon@nybg.org