Organisation(s)
A (main), FH (main), B, BM, BPI, BR, CINC, CUP, DAOM, F, GH, IA, IAC, ILL, K, LE, LP, LPS (currently LP), MICH, MO, NSPM, NY, OSC, OTF (currently PFES), P, PAC, PFES, PUR, RMS, S, TRTC, UC, UPS, W, WIS
Countries
Brazilian region: BrazilNorth American region: Canada, United StatesTropical Africa: Congo, Democratic Republic, Liberia, Sao Tome and PrincipeTropical South America: GuyanaCentral American Continent: MexicoCaribbean region: Trinidad and Tobago
Associate(s)
Bequaert, Joseph Charles Corneille (1886-1982) (co-collector)
Bissell, Charles Humphrey (1857-1925) (co-collector)
Cook, S. (fl. 1922) (co-collector)
Dorrat-Haaksma, E. (fl. 2000) (co-author)
Eaton, Richard Jefferson (1890-1976) (co-collector)
Ellis, Roger Pearson (1944-) (co-author)
Graves, Charles Burr (1860-1936) (co-collector)
Johnson, Lawrence Alexander Sidney (1925-1997) (co-author)
Long, Bayard Henry (1885-1969) (co-collector)
Pease, Arthur Stanley (1881-1964) (co-collector)
Rogers, Donald Philip (1908-) (co-collector)
Ronse Decraene, Louis-Philippe (1962-) (co-author)
Rourke, John Patrick (1942-) (co-author)
Rudall, Paula Jane (1954-) (co-author)
Smets, Erik F. (1957-) (co-author)
Steiner, Kim E. (1953-) (co-author)
Stern, William Louis (1926-) (co-author)
Stock, W.D. (co-author)
Thaxter, Roland (1858-1932) (co-collector)
Biography
American mycologist. Linder was renowned for his work as curator of the Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University, from 1932 until his premature death in 1946. David Linder was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and grew up in the rural town of Canton where his father was a chemist. His father and his uncle, W.G. Farlow, were also keen botanists and horticulturalists, passing on this passion to David. William Gilson Farlow, Linder's great uncle, especially instilled in him a love of fungi on visits to his home in Cambridge and during trips to his summer home in New Hampshire. Farlow died while Linder was an undergraduate, but the pair corresponded beforehand about the identification of fungi.
Linder entered Harvard University in 1917, serving in the Students' Army Training Corps for the remainder of World War One. In the next few years he made trips to Europe and to Dutch Guiana and the West Indies, and after gaining his PhD in 1926 he travelled on the Harvard African Expedition to Liberia. On his return he took up the post of botany instructor at George Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, and as mycologist at Missouri Botanical Garden. Here he met Elinor Alberts, an orchidologist, whom he married. Sadly she died in the 1930s and Linder busied himself with work; he had been appointed assistant professor in cryptogamic botany at Harvard in 1931 and took up his curatorship of the Farlow Herbarium in 1932. He married again in 1939.
At Harvard, Linder was well liked for organising a card catalogue for the Farlow Library, acquiring many more publications and organising the archives of more than 2,300 botanists. He was also instrumental in establishing the mycology journal Farlowia in 1943, of which he was editor-in-chief. Linder was known for his studies of Imperfect Fungi groups, authoring about 35 papers on cryptogams while he was a herbarium curator. His 1929 monograph of the Helicosporous Fungi Imperfecti was considered pioneering. Linder was a charter member of the Mycological Society of America, serving as its president in 1940. He died at the age of 48 after a heart attack.
Sources:
P.L. Rusden, 1947, "David Hunt Linder: September 24, 1899-November 10, 1946", Mycologia, 39(2): 133-144.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 375; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 446; Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 50; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 54; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1007;
