| LC control no. | n 85147705 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bigelow, Howard E. (Howard Elson), 1923-1987 |
| Variant(s) | Bigelow, Howard Elson, 1923- Bigelow, H. E. (Howard Elson), 1923-1987 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1923 |
| Death date | 1987 |
| Place of birth | Greenfield (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Mycology Botany |
| Profession or occupation | Mycologists Botanists |
| Found in | His North Amer. species of Clitocyle, 1982- : pt. 1, t.p. (Howard E. Bigelow) verso of t.p. (Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Mass.) LC data base, 11-22-85 (hdg.: Bigelow, Howard Elson, 1923- ; usage: Howard E. Bigelow; H. E. Bigelow) Howard E. Bigelow Papers (Finding aid), via LuEsther T. Mertz website, January 11, 2021 (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.) <https://www.nybg.org/library/finding_guide/archv/bigelow_ppf.html> |
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