Donald P. Rogers Records (RG4)Rogers, Donald P. (Donald Phillip), 1908-

Donald P. Rogers Records (RG4)

Archives, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library
The New York Botanical Garden
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	Collectors:	Rogers, Donald P. (Donald Phillip), 1908-2001
	Title:	Donald P. Rogers Records (RG4)
	Dates:	1947-1957
	Quantity:	2.6 linear feet; 4 boxes
	Call Phrase:	Rogers (RG4)

Biography of Donald P. Rogers

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.

Scope and Content

This collection consists mostly of correspondence. It covers Dr. Rogers ten year career at the NYBG as well as his editorship of Mycologia and his activities in the Mycological Society of America during this period.


Arrangement
	The collection is organized into seven series:

		Series 1: Personal Correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
		Series 2: Subject Correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.

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.


Indexing Terms
	The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
	Persons
		Bartram, Edwin B. (Edwin Bunting), 1878-1964.
		Crum, Howard Alvin, 1922-2002.
		Fulford, Margaret.
		Lowe, Josiah L. (Josiah Lincoln), 1905-
		Rogers, Donald P. (Donald Phillip), 1908-
		Seaver, Fred Jay, 1877-1970.
		Smith, Alexander Hanchett, 1904-
		St. John, Harold.
		Stevenson, John A. (John Albert), b. 1890.
		Taylor, William Randolph, 1895-1990.
		Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898-
		Wood, Richard Dawson, 1918-
	Subjects
		Basidiomycetes--Anatomy.
		Thelephoraceae.
		Truffles--United States--Identification.
		Tuber (Fungi).

Series 1. Personal Correspondence.

Scope and Content: Important correspondents include E. B. Bartram, Howard A. Crum, R. W. G. Dennis, Margaret Fulford, L. R. Hesler, C. W. Hesseltine, Josiah L. Lowe, Harold St. John, Fred Jay Seaver, Alexander H. Smith, John A. Stevenson, William Randolph Taylor, R. Gordon Wasson, Richard D. Wood
Folder	Title	Date
[1.1]	Adelbert	n.d.
[1.2]	Ahga	n.d.
[1.3]	Ahlner	n.d.
[1.4]	Ainsworth	n.d.
[1.5]	Alexopoulos	n.d.
[1.6]	Allen, C. K.	n.d.
[1.7]	Allen, G. O.	n.d.
[1.8]	Allorge	n.d.
[1.9]	Anastasiou	n.d.
[1.10]	Anderson	n.d.
[1.11]	Ando	n.d.
[1.12]	Andrews, A. LeRoy	n.d.
[1.13]	Andrews, Stuart R.	n.d.
[1.14]	Anselm	n.d.
[1.15]	Armbruster	n.d.
[1.16]	Arx, von	n.d.
[1.17]	Arzeni	n.d.
[1.18]	Atwood	n.d.
[1.19]	Bacchee	n.d.
[1.20]	Backus	n.d.
[1.21]	Baehni	n.d.
[1.22]	Bailey	n.d.
[1.23]	Baker	n.d.
[1.24]	Banker	n.d.
[1.25]	Bard	n.d.
[1.26]	Barghoorn	n.d.
[1.27]	Bartram	n.d.
[1.28]	Batista	n.d.
[1.29]	Baxter	n.d.
[1.30]	Beachler	n.d.
[1.31]	Beeman	n.d.
[1.32]	Beers	n.d.
[1.33]	Bell	n.d.
[1.34]	Beneke	n.d.
[1.35]	Benham	n.d.
[1.36]	Benjamin	n.d.
[1.37]	Berrie	n.d.
[1.38]	Bibby	n.d.
[1.39]	Bigelow	n.d.
[1.40]	Bisby	n.d.
[1.41]	Black	n.d.
[1.42]	Blake	n.d.
[1.43]	Blom	n.d.
[1.44]	Blomquist	n.d.
[1.45]	Bogin	n.d.
[1.46]	Bonar	n.d.
[1.47]	Bondarzev	n.d.
[1.48]	Bowerman	n.d.
[1.49]	Brady	n.d.
[1.50]	Breed	n.d.
[1.51]	Breen	n.d.
[1.52]	Brock	n.d.
[1.53]	Brodie	n.d.
[1.54]	Brooks	n.d.
[1.55]	Brown	n.d.
[1.56]	Brunel	n.d.
[1.57]	Bryan	n.d.
[1.58]	Buchanan	n.d.
[1.59]	Bunting	n.d.
[1.60]	Burlingham	n.d.
[1.61]	Cain	n.d.
[1.62]	Campbell	n.d.
[1.63]	Carmichael	n.d.
[1.64]	Carr	n.d.
[1.65]	Carrion	n.d.
[1.66]	Carter	n.d.
[1.67]	Cash	n.d.
[1.68]	Castle	n.d.
[1.69]	Chouard	n.d.
[1.70]	Chrysler	n.d.
[1.71]	Ciferri	n.d.
[1.72]	Clark	n.d.
[1.73]	Cleland	n.d.
[1.74]	Clifford	n.d.
[1.75]	Conard	n.d.
[1.76]	Conners	n.d.
[1.77]	Constantine	n.d.
[1.78]	Cook	n.d.
[1.79]	Corner	n.d.
[1.80]	Cowan	n.d.
[1.81]	Creelman	n.d.
[1.82]	Crum	n.d.
[1.83]	Culberson	n.d.
[1.84]	Cummins	n.d.
[1.85]	Cunningham	n.d.
[1.86]	Daily	n.d.
[1.87]	Damon	n.d.
[1.88]	Dawson	n.d.
[1.89]	Dearness	n.d.
[1.90]	Degener	n.d.
[1.91]	Demaret	n.d.
[1.92]	Denison	n.d.
[1.93]	Dennis	n.d.
[1.94]	Dick	n.d.
[1.95]	Diddell	n.d.
[1.96]	Diehl	n.d.
[1.97]	Dietz	n.d.
[1.98]	Dodge	n.d.
[1.99]	Donk	n.d.
[1.100]	Downing	n.d.
[1.101]	Dosdall	n.d.
[1.102]	Doty	n.d.
[1.103]	Drescher	n.d.
[1.104]	Drouet	n.d.
[1.105]	Duda	n.d.
[1.106]	Duggar	n.d.
[1.107]	Dunegan	n.d.
[1.108]	Eggertson	n.d.
[1.109]	Ehrlich	n.d.
[1.110]	Emerson	n.d.
[1.111]	Emmons	n.d.
[1.112]	Engelhardt	n.d.
[1.113]	Eriksson	n.d.
[1.114]	Eves	n.d.
[1.115]	Fabius	n.d.
[1.116]	Fairchild	n.d.
[1.117]	Falk	n.d.
[1.118]	Farr	n.d.
[1.119]	Fawcett	n.d.
[1.120]	Federov	n.d.
[1.121]	Fensholt	n.d.
[1.122]	Fergus	n.d.
[1.123]	Fischer	n.d.
[1.124]	Fitzpatrick	n.d.
[1.125]	Fletcher	n.d.
[1.126]	Florin	n.d.
[1.127]	Florschutz	n.d.
[1.128]	Flowers	n.d.
[1.129]	Fogg	n.d.
[1.130]	Forest	n.d.
[1.131]	Fosberg	n.d.
[1.132]	Fox-Ford	n.d.
[1.133]	Frederick	n.d.
[1.134]	Frisabie	n.d.
[1.135]	Frye	n.d.
[1.136]	Fulford	n.d.
[1.137]	Fuller	n.d.
[1.138]	Gailun	n.d.
[1.139]	Gamundi	n.d.
[1.140]	Geesteranus	n.d.
[1.141]	Georg	n.d.
[1.142]	Gersh	n.d.
[1.143]	Gilbertson	n.d.
[1.144]	Gilkey	n.d.
[1.145]	Gilman	n.d.
[1.146]	Gleason	n.d.
[1.147]	Gordon	n.d.
[1.148]	Greene	n.d.
[1.149]	Griffin	n.d.
[1.150]	Griffin	n.d.
[1.151]	Groves	n.d.
[1.152]	Guba	n.d.
[1.153]	Haar	n.d.
[1.154]	Hagelstein	n.d.
[1.155]	Haglund	n.d.
[1.156]	Hale	n.d.
[1.157]	Haring	n.d.
[1.158]	Harris	n.d.
[1.159]	Harrison	n.d.
[1.160]	Hasselrot	n.d.
[1.161]	Hatcher	n.d.
[1.162]	Hattori	n.d.
[1.163]	Hawker	n.d.
[1.164]	Hawkes	n.d.
[1.165]	Heim	n.d.
[1.166]	Heimans	n.d.
[1.167]	Henderson	n.d.
[1.168]	Herter	n.d.
[1.169]	Hesler	n.d.
[1.170]	Hesseltine	n.d.
[1.171]	Hidehinson	n.d.
[1.172]	Higgins	n.d.
[1.173]	Higinbotham	n.d.
[1.174]	Ho	n.d.
[1.175]	Hodgson	n.d.
[1.176]	Hollis	n.d.
[1.177]	Holm	n.d.
[1.178]	Holmes	n.d.
[1.179]	Hopkins	n.d.
[1.180]	Hord	n.d.
[1.181]	Horner	n.d.
[1.182]	Howard	n.d.
[1.183]	Hughes	n.d.
[1.184]	Hulten	n.d.
[1.185]	Humm	n.d.
[1.186]	Hunt	n.d.
[1.187]	Hussain	n.d.
[1.188]	Hutchinson	n.d.
[1.189]	Illman	n.d.
[1.190]	Imai	n.d.
[1.191]	Imshaug	n.d.
[1.192]	Jenkins	n.d.
[1.193]	Jennison	n.d.
[1.194]	Jessup	n.d.
[1.195]	Johansen	n.d.
[1.196]	Johnson	n.d.
[1.197]	Johnston	n.d.
[1.198]	Jones, Eustace	n.d.
[1.199]	Jones, George	n.d.
[1.200]	Jove-Ast	n.d.
[1.201]	Kanouse	n.d.
[1.202]	Kaplan	n.d.
[1.203]	Karling	n.d.
[1.204]	Kearsley	n.d.
[1.205]	Keck	n.d.
[1.206]	Keitt	n.d.
[1.207]	Kellogg	n.d.
[1.208]	Keosian	n.d.
[1.209]	Kern	n.d.
[1.210]	Ketchledge	n.d.
[1.211]	Kiener	n.d.
[1.212]	Knopf	n.d.
[1.213]	Koch	n.d.
[1.214]	Korf	n.d.
[1.215]	Kucyniak	n.d.
[1.216]	Kuehn	n.d.
[1.217]	Lamb	n.d.
[1.218]	Langdon	n.d.
[1.219]	Lange	n.d.
[1.220]	Lawrence	n.d.
[1.221]	Lawton	n.d.
[1.222]	Leavitt	n.d.
[1.223]	Lentz	n.d.
[1.224]	Leppik	n.d.
[1.225]	Lewis	n.d.
[1.226]	Lindquist	n.d.
[1.227]	Ling	n.d.
[1.228]	Littman	n.d.
[1.229]	Llano	n.d.
[1.230]	Lockwood	n.d.
[1.231]	Lohman	n.d.
[1.232]	Love	n.d.
[1.233]	Lowe	n.d.
[1.234]	Lowy	n.d.
[1.235]	Lubrecht	n.d.
[1.236]	Luttrell	n.d.
[1.237]	McCormick	n.d.
[1.238]	McGregor	n.d.
[1.239]	McGuire	n.d.
[1.240]	MacRae	n.d.
[1.241]	McVaugh	n.d.
[1.242]	Mains	n.d.
[1.243]	Malencon	n.d.
[1.244]	Maresquelle	n.d.
[1.245]	Marklund	n.d.
[1.246]	Martin	n.d.
[1.247]	Mason	n.d.
[1.248]	Matzke	n.d.
[1.249]	Meier	n.d.
[1.250]	Meltzer	n.d.
[1.251]	Menendez	n.d.
[1.252]	Mevius	n.d.
[1.253]	Miller, Harvey A.	n.d.
[1.254]	Miller, Julian H.	n.d.
[1.255]	Mix	n.d.
[1.256]	Moldenke	n.d.
[1.257]	Moore	n.d.
[1.258]	Morse	n.d.
[1.259]	Morton	n.d.
[1.260]	Moul	n.d.
[1.261]	Mozingo	n.d.
[2.1]	Muenscher	n.d.
[2.2]	Muller	n.d.
[2.3]	Murrill	n.d.
[2.4]	Nannfeldt	n.d.
[2.5]	Nielsen	n.d.
[2.6]	Niering	n.d.
[2.7]	Nobles	n.d.
[2.8]	Noguchi	n.d.
[2.9]	Novak	n.d.
[2.10]	Ochi	n.d.
[2.11]	Ownbey	n.d.
[2.12]	Page	n.d.
[2.13]	Palm	n.d.
[2.14]	Palmer	n.d.
[2.15]	Pande	n.d.
[2.16]	Papenfuss	n.d.
[2.17]	Parker-Rhodes	n.d.
[2.18]	Parmelee	n.d.
[2.19]	Patrick	n.d.
[2.20]	Patterson	n.d.
[2.21]	Pease	n.d.
[2.22]	Pei	n.d.
[2.23]	Persson	n.d.
[2.24]	Peterson	n.d.
[2.25]	Petrak	n.d.
[2.26]	Phinney	n.d.
[2.27]	Pichi-Sermolli	n.d.
[2.28]	Pickens	n.d.
[2.29]	Pilat	n.d.
[2.30]	Pinto-Lopes	n.d.
[2.31]	Prescott	n.d.
[2.32]	Pridham	n.d.
[2.33]	Prince	n.d.
[2.34]	Proskauer	n.d.
[2.35]	Ranade	n.d.
[2.36]	Raper	n.d.
[2.37]	Raymond	n.d.
[2.38]	Rechinger	n.d.
[2.39]	Redelmeier	n.d.
[2.40]	Reese	n.d.
[2.41]	Reid	n.d.
[2.42]	Riddell	n.d.
[2.43]	Robinson	n.d.
[2.44]	Robyns	n.d.
[2.45]	Rodriguez	n.d.
[2.46]	Rogerson	n.d.
[2.47]	Roivainen	n.d.
[2.48]	Rollins	n.d.
[2.49]	Routien	n.d.
[2.50]	Rudolph	n.d.
[2.51]	St. John	n.d.
[2.52]	Sainsbury	n.d.
[2.53]	Salisbury	n.d.
[2.54]	Sampson	n.d.
[2.55]	Santesson	n.d.
[2.56]	Sanwal	n.d.
[2.57]	Savile	n.d.
[2.58]	Savulescu	n.d.
[2.59]	Sayre	n.d.
[2.60]	Schallert	n.d.
[2.61]	Schmitt	n.d.
[2.62]	Schnooberger	n.d.
[2.63]	Schultz	n.d.
[2.64]	Schuurman	n.d.
[2.65]	Schuster	n.d.
[2.66]	Schwarz	n.d.
[2.67]	Seaver	n.d.
[2.68]	Shaffer	n.d.
[2.69]	Shanor	n.d.
[2.70]	Sharp	n.d.
[2.71]	Shaw	n.d.
[2.72]	Sherbakoff	n.d.
[2.73]	Shaw	n.d.
[2.74]	Sherrard	n.d.
[2.75]	Shields	n.d.
[3.1]	Silva	n.d.
[3.2]	Simmonds	n.d.
[3.3]	Simmons	n.d.
[3.4]	Singer	n.d.
[3.5]	Skinner	n.d.
[3.6]	title	n.d.
[3.7]	Small, John A.	n.d.
[3.8]	Smith, A. C.	n.d.
[3.9]	Smith. Alexander H.	n.d.
[3.10]	Smith, C. Earl	n.d.
[3.11]	Smith, Stanley J.	n.d.
[3.12]	Snell	n.d.
[3.13]	Solheim	n.d.
[3.14]	Sparrow	n.d.
[3.15]	Speirs	n.d.
[3.16]	Stafleu	n.d.
[3.17]	Stearn	n.d.
[3.18]	Steenis, van	n.d.
[3.19]	Steere	n.d.
[3.20]	Stevenson	n.d.
[3.21]	Steyaert	n.d.
[3.22]	Stormer	n.d.
[3.23]	Subramanian	n.d.
[3.24]	Sullivan	n.d.
[3.25]	Svenson	n.d.
[3.26]	Talbot	n.d.
[3.27]	Tavares	n.d.
[3.28]	Taylor, G.	n.d.
[3.29]	Taylor, Jane	n.d.
[3.30]	Taylor, T. M. C.	n.d.
[3.31]	Taylor, William Randolph	n.d.
[3.32]	Teixeira	n.d.
[3.33]	Thom	n.d.
[3.34]	Thomas, G. T.	n.d.
[3.35]	Thomas, W. Stephen	n.d.
[3.36]	Thompson, George E.	n.d.
[3.37]	Thompson, Grace	n.d.
[3.38]	Thomson	n.d.
[3.39]	Tippo	n.d.
[3.40]	Trelease	n.d.
[3.41]	Turner	n.d.
[3.42]	Umezaki	n.d.
[3.43]	Velasquez	n.d.
[3.44]	Vishniac	n.d.
[3.45]	Wagner	n.d.
[3.46]	Walker	n.d.
[3.47]	Wang	n.d.
[3.48]	Wasson	n.d.
[3.49]	Waterhouse	n.d.
[3.50]	Wehmeyer	n.d.
[3.51]	Weintraub	n.d.
[3.52]	Welch	n.d.
[3.53]	Welden	n.d.
[3.54]	Wells, Doreen	n.d.
[3.55]	Wells, Kenneth	n.d.
[3.56]	Wedermann	n.d.
[3.57]	Weresub	n.d.
[3.58]	West	n.d.
[3.59]	Weston	n.d.
[3.60]	Whalen	n.d.
[3.61]	White	n.d.
[3.62]	Whitehead	n.d.
[3.63]	Whitehouse	n.d.
[3.64]	Wickerham	n.d.
[3.65]	Wigham	n.d.
[3.66]	Williams	n.d.
[3.67]	Willis	n.d.
[3.68]	Wilson	n.d.
[3.69]	Wiltshire	n.d.
[3.70]	Wing	n.d.
[3.71]	Wittlake	n.d.
[3.72]	Wolf	n.d.
[3.73]	Womersley	n.d.
[3.74]	Wood	n.d.
[3.75]	Woodson	n.d.
[3.76]	Wright	n.d.
[3.77]	Yerkes	n.d.
[3.78]	Ziller	n.d.
[3.79]	Zuck	n.d.

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Series 2. Subject Correspondence.

Scope and Content: Dr. Rogers was appointed a member of a committee formed to create an exhibit on the history of botany in New York City for the Columbia University Bicentennial celebrations. There is also a file on the NYBG exhibit on the Brittons. He was a member of the NYBG Library Committee, a consultant for National Geographic, Life Magazine and the Boy Scouts. His correspondence with institutions in Czechoslovakia, India and Indonesia are kept in this series along with NSF grant applications and research notes. He was frequently asked questions concerning truffles in America, upon which he wrote. A file entitled Location of Type Specimens is an alphabetical list of botanists and the institution which holds their type specimens.
Folder	Title	Date
[4.1]	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	n.d.
[4.2]	American Institute of Biological Sciences	n.d.
[4.3]	Audubon Magazine	n.d.
[4.4]	Bibliography	n.d.
[4.5]	Board of Managers	n.d.
[4.6]	Boy Scouts	n.d.
[4.7]	British Mycological Society	n.d.
[4.8]	Bryologist	n.d.
[4.9]	Burlingham Fellowship	n.d.
[4.10]	Chemical Abstracts	n.d.
[4.11]	Chronica Botanica	n.d.
[4.12]	Columbia University Bicentennial Celebrations	n.d.
[4.13]	Communicable Disease Center	n.d.
[4.14]	Cryptogamic Herbarium	n.d.
[4.15]	Czechoslovakia	n.d.
[4.16]	Danish Mycological Society	n.d.
[4.17]	Department of the Army	n.d.
[4.18]	Eastern New York Botanical Club	n.d.
[4.19]	Farlow Library, Harvard	n.d.
[4.20]	Flower Grower	n.d.
[4.21]	Guggenheim Foundation	n.d.
[4.22]	Harvard University Press	n.d.
[4.23]	House Judiciary Committee	n.d.
[4.24]	Huntington Library	n.d.
[4.25]	India	n.d.
[4.26]	Indonesia	n.d.
[4.27]	International Botanical Congress (7th)	n.d.
[4.28]	International Botanical Congress (8th)	n.d.
[4.29]	Johnson Reprint Corporation	n.d.
[4.30]	Laboratory	n.d.
[4.31]	Library Committee	n.d.
[4.32]	Lichens	n.d.
[4.33]	Life Magazine	n.d.
[4.34]	Living molds	n.d.
[4.35]	Location of type specimens	n.d.
[4.36]	Macmillan	n.d.
[4.37]	Mushroom culture	n.d.
[4.38]	Mycologia	n.d.
[4.39]	National Geographic	n.d.
[4.40]	National Science Foundation	n.d.
[4.41]	Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum Stockholm	n.d.
[4.42]	Neptune fern	n.d.
[4.43]	New York Academy of Sciences	n.d.
[4.44]	Northwestern	n.d.
[4.45]	Oregon Mycological Society	n.d.
[4.46]	Pfizer & Company	n.d.
[4.47]	Britton exhibition	n.d.
[4.48]	Philadelphia Inquirer	n.d.
[4.49]	Phylogeny of the Basidiomycetes	n.d.
[4.50]	Problems in the Classification of Certain Fungi	n.d.
[4.51]	Pycoteca	n.d.
[4.52]	Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene	n.d.
[4.53]	Research notes	n.d.
[4.54]	Resupinate Polyporaceae	n.d.
[4.55]	Rockefeller Institute	n.d.
[4.56]	Simmons College Library School	n.d.
[4.57]	Specimen handling	n.d.
[4.58]	Stechert-Hafner Booksellers	n.d.
[4.59]	Stropharia coronilla	n.d.
[4.60]	Tasmania	n.d.
[4.61]	Torrey Botanical Club	n.d.
[4.62]	Torrey Botanical Index	n.d.
[4.63]	Truffles	n.d.
[4.64]	University of Michigan	n.d.
[4.65]	Zeiss	n.d.
[4.66]	Zeller herbarium	n.d.

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