Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Farlow corresponded with Caroline Bingham and Jacob Georg Agardh collaborating in the identification and classification of species of algae previously unknown to science. In 1899 he was president of the American Society of Naturalists. In 1904 president of the National Academy of Sciences.
In 1905 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
And in 1911 president of the Botanical Society of America. He received honorary degrees from Harvard University, the University of Glasgow (Doctor of Laws in 1901), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Among his publications are:
The Gymnosporangia or Cedar-Apples of the United States (1880)
Marine Algœ of New England (1881)
A Provisional Host-Index of the Fungi of the United States (1888)
Biographical Index of North American Fungi (1905)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, Doctorate. C. Thurston, H. T. Colby, F. M., eds. (1905).
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New International Encyclopedia (1st ed). New York: Dodd, Mead.
National Academy of Sciences.
