Carroll William Dodge

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Carroll William Dodge (January 20, 1895 – July 21, 1988) was an American

fungi, lichen-associated fungi, and fungi forming subterranean sporophores.[1]

Biography

Carroll William Dodge was born in

Oxford University, withdrew his nomination and went to Washington University to complete his doctorate. He did his PhD in plant physiology and biochemistry under Benjamin M. Duggar in 1918.[1]

After his PhD, he served in US Army as a specialist in Office of Nutrition, Camp Pevon, Massachusetts during 1918–1919. After one year of service in the US Army, he worked as an associated chemist in Dairy Division of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).[1]

Dodge again joined academia in 1919 as an instructor in botany at

George A. Llano, and Emanuel David Rudolph.[4]

Another area of Dodge's study is lichenology. He is regarded as an American authority on tropical and Antarctic lichens. He mainly focused in

Kerguelen Island,[12] and New Zealand.[13] He was funded by National science museum for his trip to Antarctica in 1961. He studied lichens for several years in Antarctica and published a book Lichen Flora of the Antarctic Continent and Adjacent Islands in 1973.[1][14] The book, however, was not well-received by his contemporaries. In one review of a later publication on Antarctic lichens, a reviewer described Dodge's "idiosyncratic monograph" as "for its users, more a source of frustration than information".[15] In a critical revision of lichens described by Dodge in that 1973 publication, Miris Castello and Pier Luigi Nimis concluded that only about 20% of the approximately 150 species he described in that work were still accepted as valid.[16] This analysis corroborated a previous prediction that about 80% of Dodge's taxa would turn out to be invalid.[17]

Dodge also studied about subterranean sporophores. Research articles related to

Gymnomyces and Macromanites,[20] Leucogastor and Leucophlebs[21]
were found during his early academic life.

Carroll William Dodge died on July 21, 1988, in Vermont.

Awards and honors

In 1931, Dodge was head of the International Association of Plant Taxonomists Section on Lichens and in 1950, he was vice-president for Medical Mycology of the Rio de Janeiro International Congress of Microbiology.[1]

His honors include: election to

Universidad Nacional de Chile (1950); perpetual honorary member of the Societe Linneenne de Lyon, and the American Microscopical Society (and Centennial Award, 1978). He received the medal of the Society of Medical Mycologists of the Americas in 1976.[1]

Organizational affiliations

The list of Dodge's organizational affiliations includes: American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New England Botanical Club, the Botanical Society of America (chairman of mycology, 1920s), the British Mycological Society, the American Microscopical Society (vice-president, 1938), and the American Phytopathological Society. He also served on the editorial boards of Botanical Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, and Rhodora.[1]

Publications

More than seventy scholarly articles written by Dodge can be found between 1918 and 1982.[1] Similarly, as many as eighty books written by Dodge can be found. Although most of his books are written in English, some books are in Spanish, French and German.[22]

Hobbies and interests

Besides mycology and biology, Carroll William Dodge was interested in Latin American history and literature. This can be known by his appointment as Harvard University Librarian to purchase literary and historical volumes in many countries he visited. He could read and write in both classical and modern languages. Further, he could give lectures in fluent Spanish and Portuguese.[1] In 1925, Dodge married Bertha Sanford Wiener, who was a daughter of Leo Wiener, his Russian Professor at Harvard. Dodge's wife was also an author of several books in economic botany, popular science and exploration. They had two daughters Anne Caroline Dodge Hooper and Mary Lavina Dodge Cobb, both of whom were musically talented.[1]

The standard author abbreviation C.W.Dodge is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[23]

See also

References

  1. ^
    JSTOR 3759843
    . (On p. 160 of Rudolf's article there is a misspelling: "Bertha Sanford Weiner" should be "Bertha Sanford Wiener".)
  2. ^ "EDWARD ANGUS BURT PAPERS". sciweb.nybg.org.
  3. ^ "Farlow Herbarium (FH)". Harvard University.
  4. JSTOR 2395184
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  5. JSTOR 2394552
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  6. JSTOR 2394558
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  7. ISSN 0035-4902
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  8. ^ Dodge and Vareschi (1956) Resultados liqueno logicos de excursions effectuada en Venezuela, No 1 Acta Biol. Venezuelica 2: 1-12.
  9. ^ Dodge, C.W., 1957, The Machris Brazilian Expedition. Botany; the Lichens. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr.Sci 4:1-2
  10. ^ Dodge, C.W., 1959, Liches, In: Plants of Tonga. Ed, Truman George Yuncker. Ernice P. Bishop Mus Bull. 220: 12-14
  11. ^ Dodge, C. W., 1966, New lichens from Chile (I), Nova Hedwigia 12: 307:352
  12. ^ Dodge, C.W., 1966, Lichen from Kerguelen collected by E. Aubert de la Rue. Terrifore Terres Australea Antarct. Francis CNFRA. 15:1-8
  13. ^ Dodge, C.W., Lichens, 1969, In: The flora of Snarls Island, New Zealand, Ed. Brian A. Fineran. Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand, Bot. 3: 245-250,
  14. S2CID 86149883
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  15. doi:10.1657/1523-0430(2003)035[0410:br]2.0.co;2
    .
  16. ^ Castello, Miris; Nimis, Pier Luigi (1995). "A critical revision of Antarctic lichens described by C.W. Dodge". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 57: 71–92.
  17. ^ Hertel, Hannes (1988). "Problems in Monographing Antarctic Crustose Lichens" (PDF). Polarforschung. 58: 65–76.
  18. ^ Zeller and Dodge, 1918, Rhizopogon in North America, Ann. Mo. Bot. Grad. 5: 1-36
  19. ^ Zeller and Dodge, 1918, Gauiteria in North America, Ann. Mo. Bot. Grad. 5: 133-142
  20. ^ Zeller and Dodge, 1918, Arcangeliella, Gtmnomyces, Macromanites in North America, Ann. Mo. Bot. Grad. 6: 49-59
  21. ^ Zeller and Dodge, 1918, Leucogastor and Leucophlebs in North America, Ann. Mo. Bot. Grad. 11:389-410
  22. ^ "Dodge, Carroll William, 1895-1988. Carroll William Dodge papers, approximately 1847-1990: A Guide". oasis.lib.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-10-02. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  23. ^ International Plant Names Index.  C.W.Dodge.

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