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2022 Fall (no. 75)  
   75 ​​Boston Lichen Group Species Now Online (Scott LaGreca)  PDF
2021 Fall (no. 74)  
   74 ​​A Tiny Cup-fungus With Connections to the Farlow (Luis Quijada and Don Pfister). View newsletter  PDF
2021 Winter-Spring (no.73)  
   73 Expeditions and Explorations: A retrospective look at field work around the world. View newsletter  
2020 Spring-Summer (no.72)  
72 Digitizing Rust Fungus Specimens (Hannah Merchant, Genevieve Tocci and Walter Kittredge)Botanical Illustrations Search Portal (Diane Rielinger) |Leotiomyetes from the forests of Patagonian Chile (Luis Quijada, Katherine LoBuglio, Jason Karakehian, Giuliana Furci, Daniella Torres & Donald H. Pfister)
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2019  Fall (no. 71)  
71 Materials from Wellesley College (Donald H. Pfister) | Phil May Collection of Lichens (James K. Mitchell) | Elso Barghoorn Microscope Slides (Liam Nokes) | Anna M. Reid Bryophytes (Giovanna Bishop) | New Books at the Farlow (Gretchen Wade) | Digitizing Update (DIane M. Rielinger) | Farlow Finding Aid ( Danielle Castronovo) | Book Salehttps://fof.huh.harvard.edu/files/fof/files/foffall08.pdf        PDF
2018 Fall (no. 70)  
70 Maggie Rogers Stamp Collection at Harvard (Judith Warnement) PDF  
2017 Spring (no. 68) | Winter (no. 69)  
69 Stuck Like Glue: Fungi That Live on Conifer Resin (James K. Mitchell) 3.0 MB
68 A Mycologist Investigates the Farlow Collection (Don Pfister) 2.7 MB
2016 Spring (no. 66) | Fall (no. 67)  
67 An Excursion to Collect Tropical Fungi in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, May 2 –June 17, 2016 (Jason Karakehian) | Parasites of Parasites: Blood-sucking Bat Flies Infected With Enigmatic Laboulbeniales Fungi (Walter Pfliegler & Danny Haelewaters) 6.6 MB
66 Rare Early Diatom Ambrotype Photographs by Amasa Mason Eaton (1841-1914) (Wayne Barrar) | Revisiting Thaxter's Sequestrate Basidiomycetes (Francisco Kuhar) 5.69 MB
pdf William Gilson Farlow on Campobello Island: a brief account of his trips in 1898 and 1902 (Donald H. Pfister, September 2016)
2015 Spring (no. 65)  
65 Trees and Treetops: A Study of Phylogeny and Natural History of the Orbiliomycetes in New England (Valentina Rodriguez) | Annual Meeting 2.2 MB
2014 Spring-Fall double issue (no. 63-64)  

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90 Years of the Farlow (Donald H. Pfister) | Refinishing the Farlow Floors – A Thanksgiving to Remember! (Judith Warnement) | Visitor thanks for support from Friends of the Farlow (Naveed Davoodian) | The Bibliographic Cards of the Farlow (Lisa DeCesare) | The Habits of Truffles and other Ectomycorrhizal Cup Fungi; Reading Tree Roots for Clues (Roseanne Healy) | Charming Hymenogloea papyracea: An ideal fungus for the study of climate change (Teresa Iturriaga) | Thaxter's Treasure Trove (Danny Haelewaters) 639 KB
2013 Spring (no. 61) | Fall (no. 62)  
62 Mycological Stamps (Keiko Nishimoto) | Fun Finds | "Ugly Room" Transformation (Genevieve Lewis-Gentry) 4.47 MB
61 Collections Online (Michaela Schmull) | Blow, Ye Fungal Winds (Lawrence Millman) | Presidential Fun Find | Clara Cummings Walk (Danny Haelewaters and Elizabeth Kneiper) 2.36 MB
2012 Spring (no. 59) | Fall (no. 60)  
60 The Many Faces of "Cap" Weston (Lisa DeCesare) | Farlow Library Renovation (Judith Warnement) | Bioluminescence Event 3.38 MB
59 Thaxter's Legacy (Serena Zhao) | Remembering Friends (Donald Pfister) | Oakes Ames the Student 2.91 MB
2011 Spring (no. 57) | Fall (no. 58)  
58 Not All Scutellinia Species are the Same (Donald Pfister) | Walden Pond Recap (Jason Karakehian) | Note on Volunteerism (Donald Pfister) 3.2 MB
57 Eliza Beulah Blackford (Lisa DeCesare) | Group Visits to the Farlow (Lisa DeCesare) | Harvey Pofcher (Donald Pfister) 2.3 MB
2010 Spring (no. 55) | Fall (no. 56)  
56 Asa Gray's Last Collecting Trip (Lisa DeCesare) | Asa Gray, Donald Pfister and Harvard Summer School |Asa Gray Honored with Stamp | Elizabeth Kneiper Steps Down as FoF President (Donald Pfister) 3.2 MB
55 Harvard's Pound Hall Was Named for a Nebraskan Mycologist (Brian Franzone) | Asa Gray Bicentennial Celebration (1810-2010) | The Farlow Thanks Dr. Norihide Amano (Judy Warnement) | Appreciating Gifts and Collections for Contemporary Biology (David P. Hughes) | Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum 2.9 MB
2009 Spring (no. 53) | Fall (no. 54)  
54 Cemetery Lichens: Study Collections for Beginners (Elizabeth J. Kneiper) | Fragile Science (Tessa Updike) 1.7 MB
53 Following the Rake of Roland Thaxter - Unearthing the Hypogeous Fungi of South America (Matthew E. Smith) | Generous Gift from Professor Goos | Elam Bartholomew | 2009 Collecting Commences with Clara Cummings Walk | The History of the Farlow Part III- Financing the Farlow (Lisa DeCesare) | BMC hosts NEMF Foray 14.1 MB
2008 Spring (no. 51) | Fall (no. 52)  
52 The Harvard-Google Project -- "Libraries, Books, Equality and Google" (Judy Warnement) | Caroline Coventry Haynes (Genevieve Lewis-Gentry) | The History of the Farlow. Part II. The Beginnings of the Herbarium (Lisa DeCesare) 9.2 MB
51 On the Trail of E. J. H. Corner - Collecting Mycenoid Fungi in Malaysia (Brian Perry) | The History of the Farlow. Part I. The Origins of the Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany (Lisa DeCesare) | HPLC at the Farlow (George Davis) 6.6 MB
2007 Spring (no. 49) | Fall (no. 50)  
50 David Linder and the Boylston Street Diatoms (Robert Edgar) | Teuvo Ahti honored | Visiting Lichenologists 4.9 MB
49 Studies on the genus Neolecta (David Hewitt) | Beata Ruris Otia Fungus Danicis Impensa “Happy Periods of Rest in the Country in the Company of Mushrooms” (Lisa DeCesare) 9.1 MB
2006 Spring (no. 47) | Fall (no. 48)  
48 The Myxomycete Collection at the Farlow Herbarium (Genevieve Lewis-Gentry) | Anton deBary | Catacomb Curiosity - Navicula americana Ehrenberg (Robert Edgar) 0.8 MB
47 Ascomycota truffles: Cup fungi go underground. (Karen Hansen) | Tulasne Brothers Exhibit (Lisa DeCesare) | Harvard honors Professor Donald Pfister (Judy Warnement) 0.8 MB
2005 Spring (no. 45) | Fall (no. 46)  
46  Heliosporidium parasiticum (Chlorophyta: Trebouxiophyceae), A Novel Entomopathogenic Alga with a Curious Life History (John Denton) | Stepping on Giant Diatoms (Elizabeth Kneiper) | A Study of Ramalina and Usnea Collections in the R. H. Howe, Jr., Lichen Herbarium (Elizabeth Kneiper) | When Lichens Inspire (Elizabeth Kneiper) | FoF Sponsors Red Algae Interest (Elizabeth Kneiper) | "Amanita phalloides" Exhibit (Lisa DeCesare) 0.7 MB
45 There's more to Indian Pipe than meets the eye. (Sylvia Yang) | Farlow / Lister Correspondence (Lisa Decesare) 2.7 MB
2004 Spring (no. 43) | Fall (no. 44)  
44 History of Mycological Illustration Exhibit (Lisa DeCesare) 2.0 MB
43 The Geneva Sayre Fellowship 2003: Studying the Farlow Lichen Collections from the British Isles (Mark R. D. Seaward) | More About Thomas Taylor and his Herbarium .... (Judy Warnement) | LaGreca Named Curator of Lichens at the Natural History Museum, London (Judy Warnement) | More about Scott ... "Shipwrecked" (Douglas N. Greene) 2.0 MB
2003 Spring (no. 41) | Fall (no. 42)  
42 Fungi in the Fossil Record of the Rhynie, Scotland (David Hewitt) | New Exhibits on the Botany Libraries Web Site (Lisa DeCesare) 0.7 MB
41 The William A.Terry Diatom Collection (Robert K. Edgar) | Who was M. A. Robinson? (Judy Warement) 1.43 MB
2002 Spring (no. 39) | Fall (no. 40)  
40 Lichens and Bryophytes of the Boston Harbor Islands (Scott LeGreca) | Algae: Nature and Art on Martha's Vineyard (Judy Warnement) 0.8 MB
39 Lichens and Politics Meet on Mount Everett (Philip May) 0.7 MB
2001 Spring (no. 37) | Fall (no. 38)  
38 Recent Bryological Studies of Adirondack Mountain Alpine Summits (Norton G. Miller) | A Farlow Exhibit of Select Mycological Illustrators 1890-1925 (Lisa DeCesare) 0.4 MB
37 Mushroom Portraits Visit the Farlow (Lise DeCesare) 0.7 MB
2000 Spring (no. 35) | Fall (no. 36)  
36 Why Are There So Many Different Kinds of Mushrooms? (David S. Hibbett) 0.7 MB
35 Counting Fungi (Donald H. Pfister) | On Display in the Farlow Lobby Cyttaria: A Curious Fungus (Kris Peterson) 0.7 MB
1999 Spring (no. 33) | Fall (no. 34)  
34 From Roland Thaxter to PCR: A Century of Work on the Loboulbeniales (Alex Weir) 0.7 MB
33 Antarctica: Where Cryptogams are King (Rick Weinstein) 0.7 MB
1998 Spring (no. 32)  
32 Lichen Hunting in French Guiana (Phil May) 0.8 MB
1997 Spring (no. 30) | Fall (no. 31)  
31 Symbiosis (R.K. Edgar) 1 MB
30 Liking Lichens (Donald H. Pfister) 1 MB
1996 Spring (no. 28) | Fall (no. 29)  
29 Some fungicolous fungi (F.A. Harrington) 0.9 MB
28 A Mossy Expedition to Brunei Darussalam (Benito C. Tan) 0.9 MB
1995 Spring (no. 26) | Fall (no. 27)  
27 Roland Thaxter and the Farlow (Carolyn S. Hesterberg) 0.78 MB
26 W. G. Farlow - His Life and Times | Lichens at the Arnold Arboretum | Thaxter Archival Project 0.76 MB
1994 Spring (no. 24) | Fall (no. 25)  
25 Nematode-Destroying Fungi at the Farlow (Michael Liftik) 0.98 MB
24 A Bryological Glimpse of China (William R. Buck) | The Lichen of Tenshin-En (Elizabeth Kneiper) 1.45 MB
1993 Spring (no. 22) | Fall (no. 23)  
23 Seaweeds & Providence (Robert K. Edgar) 995 KB
22 The "Ubiquitous Diatom" Revisited (J. Patrick Kociolek) 1.40 MB
1992 Spring (no. 20) | Fall (no. 21)  
21 Palawan Island: A Moss Refugium in the Philippines? (Benito C. Tan) 1.27 MB
20 "Slow Fires: in Harvard Libraries (Jean Boise Cargill) 1.23 MB
1991 Spring (no. 18) | Fall (no. 19)  
19 Farlow's Students | Bryophyte Red List (Benito C. Tan) | Lilian Horsford Farlow (Carolyn Hesterberg) 1.38 MB
18 Asa Gray Saves Farlow for Harvard (A. Hunter Dupree) | Flora of China (Benito C. Tan) 1.24 MB
1990 Spring (no. 16) | Fall (no. 17)  
17 Sex and Taxonomy in Cladonia (Samuel Hammer) 1.47 MB
16 Prochloron (Barry Wulff) | A Trove of Southeastern Asiatic Mosses (Benito C. Tan) | Lichens & Evolution (Sharon P. Gowan) 1.64 MB
1989 Spring (no. 14) | Fall (no. 15)  
15 Boston Lichens: Past, Present and Future (Elizabeth J. Kneiper) 1.29 MB
14 Epigraphs: Lastly Chosen First Lines From Works In The Farlow 1.33 MB
1988 Spring (no. 12) | Fall (no. 13)  
13 Species (Brent D. Mishler) 0.96 MB
12 A Decade of Change: The Farlow Herbarium in the 1970's (Carolyn Hesterberg) 1.29 MB
1987 Spring (no. 10) | Fall (no. 11)  
11 Sunken Wrack and Ooze (Robert K. Edgar) 1.27 MB
10 The Art of the Title Page (Donald H. Pfister) | Mycology in Malaysia 1.14 MB
1986 Spring (no. 8) | Fall (no. 9)  
9 A Hundred Years in the Life of a Library (Jean R. Boise) 0.98 MB
8 Halimeda and Coral Reef Research at the Farlow (Llewellya Hillis-Colinvaux) 0.96 MB
1985 Spring (no. 6) | Fall (no. 7)  
7 A Mycologist Visits the Mountain of the Mist (Roy Halling)  1.05 MB
6 Richard Spruce, Hepaticologist (Barbara M. Thiers) | Bryophytes of Northeastern North America (Brent D. Mishler) 1.11 MB
1984 Spring (no. 4) | Fall (no. 5)  
5 Nostoc (Barry L. Wulff) 0.91 MB
4 New England's Spring Ascomycetes (Donald H. Pfister) 0.83 MB
1983 Spring (no. 2) | Fall (no. 3)  
3 Lichens" The Lamb Inside the Lion (Donald H. Pfister) 0.83 MB
2 Diatom Collections at the Farlow (Robert K. Edgar) | An Introduction to the Farlow Library 1.35 MB
1982 Fall (no. 1)  
1 Introducing the Farlow... 0.92 MB