1. Roland Thaxter was born in Newtonville, Massachusetts, 1858, the third and youngest child in the family.
16 Facts About Roland Thaxter
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Roland Thaxter's parents were Levi Thaxter and Celia Thaxter.
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Roland Thaxter's father was a lawyer and an authority who brought the works of the poet Robert Browning to the American public.
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Roland Thaxter's mother, Celia Thaxter, was a distinguished poet, most well known for her book An Island Garden.
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Roland Thaxter conducted studies of cryptogamic botany under William Gilson Farlow.
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Roland Thaxter pursued a doctoral degree and served as a research assistant under Farlow from 1886 to 1888.
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Roland Thaxter described the pathogen of potato scab, Oospora scabies, the mildew of lima beans, the onion smut, and pioneered the use of fungicide sprays to control fungal diseases.
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In 1891, Roland Thaxter accepted the call and returned to Harvard, where he combined his interest in Entomology and Mycology to work on insect parasitic fungi in the order Laboulbeniales.
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Roland Thaxter's research was published from 1896 to 1931 in five volumes that included 103 genera, approximately 1200 species, and 13 varieties.
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In 1901, Roland Thaxter was promoted to the position of Full Professor of Cryptogamic Botany.
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Roland Thaxter described Myxobacteria in 1892, based on their peculiar life stages and structural developments.
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Roland Thaxter made several collecting tours in the Americas and in European countries.
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Roland Thaxter sailed from Liverpool, New York to Buenos Aires, then traveled to the Falkland Islands and the Strait of Magellan to the southernmost tip of South America.
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Roland Thaxter served as president of the New England Botanical Club, the American Mycological Society, and the Botanical Society of America.
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Roland Thaxter was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Botanical Society of America, the American Phytopathological Society, the Boston Society of Natural History, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Outside the US, Roland Thaxter was a foreign member of the Russian Mycological Society, the Linnaean Societies of London and Lyons, the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, the Royal Academies of Sweden and Denmark, the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of Science of the Institute of France, the British Mycological Society, and the Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft.