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George Francis Atkinson

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PhD Botany Johns Hopkins University

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According to Wikipedia, George Francis Atkinson was an American botanist and mycologist. He was born on January 26, 1854, in Raisinville, Michigan, and died on November 14, 1918. He was the son of Joseph and Josephine Atkinson . He studied at Olivet College from 1878 to 1883 and obtained his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1885. He is best known for his contributions to the fields of mycology and botany.

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Some diseases of cotton (1892) (122)
Contribution towards a Monograph of the Laboulbeniaceæ (1898) (44)
Some Fungus Parasites of Algae (1909) (33)
The Development of Agaricus Campestris (1906) (24)
REPORT UPON SOME PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS WITH THE RONTGEN RAYS ON PLANTS. (1898) (21)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGARICUS ARVENSIS AND A. COMTULUS (19)
Monograph of the Lemaneaceae of the United States (1890) (18)
Some diseases of cotton. 3. Frenching. (17)
THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. (1899) (15)
Studies of American fungi : mushrooms, edible, poisonous, etc. Recipes for cooking mushrooms, by Sarah Tyson Rorer. Chemistry and Toxicology of mushrooms, by J.F. Clark. With 250 illustrations from photographs by the author. (15)
Observations on Polyporus lucidus Leys and Some of Its Allies from Europe and North America (1908) (14)
Descriptions of some New Trap-Door Spiders; Their Notes and Food habits. (12)
Steps Toward a Revision of the Linosporous Species of North American Graminicolous Hypocreaceae (1894) (11)
SOME NEW SPECIES OF INOCYBE (1918) (11)
Preliminary Note on Two New Genera of Basidiomycetes (1902) (10)
Black "rust" of cotton (1891) (9)
A preliminary report on the geology of Louisiana (9)
North American Slime Moulds (1900) (8)
Some fungi from Alabama (8)
THE PERFECT STAGE OF LEAF-SPOT OF PEAR AND QUINCE. (1909) (8)
Preliminary report upon the life history and metamorphoses of a root-gall nematode, Heterodera radicicola (Greeff) Müll., and the injuries caused by it upon the roots of various plants (1889) (7)
The Genus Galerula in North America (7)
Anthracnose of Cotton (1891) (7)
Experimental Morphology (7)
Lessons in Botany (1900) (6)
The Genera Balansia and Dothichloe in the United States with a Consideration of Their Economic Importance (1905) (6)
Olpitrichum, a New Genus of Mucedinous Fungi (1894) (5)
ON THE HOMOLOGIES AND PROBABLE ORIGIN OF THE EMBRYO-SAC. (1901) (5)
A New Ramularia on Cotton (1890) (5)
Quadruple Hybrids in the F(1) Generation from OENOTHERA NUTANS and OENOTHERA PYCNOCARPA, with the F(2) Generations, and Back- and Inter-Crosses. (1917) (5)
Life History of Hypocrea alutacea (1905) (5)
A New Poisonous Mushroom (1908) (4)
Preliminary Notes on Some New Species of Fungi (1902) (4)
The Origin and Taxonomic Value of the "Veil" in Dictyophora and Ithyphallus (1911) (3)
A Compendium of General Botany (1896) (3)
The Genus Frankia in the United States (1892) (3)
Contribution to the Biology of Theorganism Causing Leguminous Tubercles (1893) (3)
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms (1918) (3)
Analytic keys to the genera and species of North American Mosses . By C. R. Barnes. Revised and extended by F. D. Heald, with the cooperation of the author. Bull. Univ. Wis. Sci. ser. I., 5, pp. 157-368, 1897. (1897) (2)
Method for Obtaining Pure Cultures of Pammel's Fungus of Texas Root Rot of Cotton (1893) (2)
Origin and Development of the Lamellae in Coprinus (1916) (2)
Symbiosis in the Roots of the Ophioglossaceae (1893) (2)
Note on the Genus Harpochytrium (2)
The Probable Influence of Disturbed Nutrition on the Evolution of the Vegetative Phase of the Sporophyte (1896) (2)
DROPSICAL DISEASES OF PLANTS. (1893) (2)
A New Species of Geaster (1903) (2)
Relation of plants to environment (or Plant ecology) Outlines of a course of lectures delivered in the summer school of Cornell university 1903 and 1904 (2)
IS THE BIENNIAL HABIT OF OEligNOTHERA RACES CONSTANT IN THEIR NATIVE LOCALITIES? (1913) (2)
Notes on Some Exoasceae of the United States (1894) (2)
Black Rust of Cotton: A Preliminary Note (1891) (1)
Another Phosphorescent Mushroom (1889) (1)
BOTANY AT THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS. (1892) (1)
Contribution to the Biology of the Organism Causing Leguminous Tubercles (Continued) (1893) (1)
NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF RHODOCHYTRIUM SPILANTHIDIS LAGERHEIM IN NORTH AMERICA. (1908) (1)
Frost Freaks of Herbaceous Plants (1894) (1)
SPURRED FLOWERS IN CALCEOLARIA. (1912) (1)
A NEW EDIBLE SPECIES OF AMANITA. (1909) (1)
A preliminary report on the geology of Louisiana, by Gilbert D. Harris, geologist-in-charge, and A. C. Veatch, assistant geologist; made under direction of State experiment station, Baton Rouge, La. (1)
PRELIMINARY NOTE ON A NEW DISEASE OF THE CULTIVATED VETCH. (1907) (1)
PLANT MATERIAL FOR LABORATORY USE IN THE SCHOOLS. (1900) (1)
Amanita (1912) (1)
Charles Horton Peck (1918) (1)
A New Trap-Door Spider (1886) (1)
ALBERT NELSON PRENTISS. (1896) (1)
Kerosene emulsion : how to make and apply it (1890) (1)
Studies on Reduction in Plants (1899) (1)
First studies of plant life (1)
Three New Genera of the Higher Fungi (1902) (1)
Preliminary Notes on Some New Species of Agarics (1)
The Perfect Stage of the Ascochyta on the Hairy Vetch (1912) (1)
Sorting and blending of “unit characters” in the zygote of Oenothera with twin and triplet hybrids in the first generation (1916) (1)
SELECTED CYCLES IN GYMNOCONIA PECKIANA (1918) (1)
Two Perfectly Developed Embryos on a Single Prothallium of Adiantum cuneatum (1893) (1)
The Extent of the Annulus, and the Function of the Different Parts of the Sporangium of Ferns in the Dispersion of Spores (1893) (1)
Researches on Fungi. (1910) (1)
New root rot disease of cotton (1890) (0)
Botany at the Experiment Stations (1892) (0)
Studies of American fungi. Mushrooms, edible, poisonous, etc. By George Francis Atkinson. Recipes for cooking mushrooms, by Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer. Chemistry and toxicology of mushrooms, by J.F. Clark. With 230 photographs by the author, and colored plates by F. (0)
A New Genus of Chytrids (1910) (0)
Preliminary Note on the Synonomy of Entothrix grande Wolle (1889) (0)
A New Species of Calostoma (1903) (0)
A Catalogue of the Birds of North Carolina (0)
SIX MISUNDERSTOOD SPECIES OF AMANITA (0)
Photography as an Instrument for Recording the Macroscopic Characters of Micro-Organisms in Artificial Cultures (0)
Development and Biology of Armillaria (1910) (0)
Gautieria in the Eastern United States (1912) (0)
Structure of the Boleti (1916) (0)
SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. (1900) (0)
CONVOCATION WEEK. (0)
SECTION G--BOTANY. (0)
Two New Species Belonging to Naucoria and Stropharia (1906) (0)
Minnesota Algæ . I. The Myxophyceæ of North America and Adjacent Regions, Including Central America, Greenland, Bermuda, the West Indies and Hawaii. By Josephine Tilden. Pp. iv + 328, p1. 1-20. 1910. (1911) (0)
A New Ravenelia from Alabama (1891) (0)
Elementary Botany (0)
The Use of Two Doors in a Trap-Door Spider's Nest (0)
Diseases of Plants Induced by Cryptogamic Parasites (1897) (0)
Albert Nelson Prentiss (1896) (0)
On the Structure and Dimorphism of Hypocrea tuberiformis (1891) (0)
Completoria Complens Lohde (1894) (0)
Artificial Cultures of an Entomogenous Fungus (1894) (0)
Scientific Books: Minnesota Algoe (1911) (0)
Sphaerella gossypina, n. sp., the Perfect Stage of Cercospora gossypina, Cooke (1891) (0)
Notes on Protective Resemblance in Spiders (0)
Some Observations on the Development of Colletotrichum lindemuthianum in Artificial Cultures (1895) (0)
Abstracts of Botanical Papers Read at the Detroit Meeting of the A. A. A. S. (1897) (0)
Botany for high schhools / by George Francis Atkinson. (0)
A Popular Treatise on the Physiology of Plants for the Use of Gardeners, or for Students of Horticulture and Agriculture (1897) (0)
A Parasitic Alga, Rhodochytrium spilanthidis Lagerheim, in North America (1908) (0)
Geaster Leptospermus: A Correction (1903) (0)
Germination of the Spores of Cerebella Paspali (1894) (0)
A Remarkable Amanita (1909) (0)
Twin Hybrids from Crosses of Œnothera Lamarckiana and Franciscana with Œ. Pycnocarpa, in the F1 and F2 (0)
A New Entoloma from Central Ohio (1906) (0)
Protocoronospora, a New Genus of Fungi (1907) (0)
Dry application of Paris green and London purple for the cotton worm (0)
Unequal Segmentation and Its Significance in the Primary Division of the Embryo of Ferns (1893) (0)
Cystidia of Coprinus (1911) (0)
Development in Gymnocarpous Agaricaceae (1918) (0)
Intelligence Manifested by the Swarm-Spores of Rhizophidium Globosum (1894) (0)
The Preparation of Material for General Class Use (1897) (0)
Relationships within the Rhodosporeae (1919) (0)
Book Review:The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live in John Lubbock (1893) (0)
THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS (1893) (0)
An Automatic Device for Rolling Culture Tubes of Nutrient Agar Agar (1892) (0)
A Popular Treatise on the Physiology of Plants for the Use of Gardeners, or for Students of Horticulture and Agriculture . By Dr. Paul Sorauer. Translated by F. E. Weiss. London and New York, Longmans, Green & Co. 1895. (1897) (0)
A New Edible Species of Amanita (1909) (0)
The Botanical Section of the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Washington Meeting (1891) (0)

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The study of the biology of ferns by the collodion method

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