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2024
 
2022
 
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​​Boston Lichen Group Species Now Online (Scott LaGreca)
2021
 
   74
​​A Tiny Cup-fungus With Connections to the Farlow (Luis Quijada and Don Pfister). View newsletter
2021
 
   73
Expeditions and Explorations: A retrospective look at field work around the world. View newsletter
 
2020
 
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)
 
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
2018
Fall (no. 70)
 
Maggie Rogers Stamp Collection at Harvard (Judith Warnement)
2017
Spring (no. 68) | Winter (no. 69)
 
Stuck Like Glue: Fungi That Live on Conifer Resin (James K. Mitchell)
A Mycologist Investigates the Farlow Collection (Don Pfister)
2016
Spring (no. 66) | Fall (no. 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)
Rare Early Diatom Ambrotype Photographs by Amasa Mason Eaton (1841-1914) (Wayne Barrar) | Revisiting Thaxter's Sequestrate Basidiomycetes (Francisco Kuhar)
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)
 
Trees and Treetops: A Study of Phylogeny and Natural History of the Orbiliomycetes in New England (Valentina Rodriguez) | Annual Meeting
2014
Spring-Fall double issue (no. 63-64)
 
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)
2013
Spring (no. 61) | Fall (no. 62)
 
Mycological Stamps (Keiko Nishimoto) | Fun Finds | "Ugly Room" Transformation (Genevieve Lewis-Gentry)
Collections Online (Michaela Schmull) | Blow, Ye Fungal Winds (Lawrence Millman) | Presidential Fun Find | Clara Cummings Walk (Danny Haelewaters and Elizabeth Kneiper)
2012
Spring (no. 59) | Fall (no. 60)
 
The Many Faces of "Cap" Weston (Lisa DeCesare) | Farlow Library Renovation (Judith Warnement) | Bioluminescence Event
Thaxter's Legacy (Serena Zhao) | Remembering Friends (Donald Pfister) | Oakes Ames the Student
2011
Spring (no. 57) | Fall (no. 58)
 
Not All Scutellinia Species are the Same (Donald Pfister) | Walden Pond Recap (Jason Karakehian) | Note on Volunteerism (Donald Pfister)
Eliza Beulah Blackford (Lisa DeCesare) | Group Visits to the Farlow (Lisa DeCesare) | Harvey Pofcher (Donald Pfister)
2010
Spring (no. 55) | Fall (no. 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)
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
2009
Spring (no. 53) | Fall (no. 54)
 
Cemetery Lichens: Study Collections for Beginners (Elizabeth J. Kneiper) | Fragile Science (Tessa Updike)
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
2008
Spring (no. 51) | Fall (no. 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)
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)
2007
Spring (no. 49) | Fall (no. 50)
 
David Linder and the Boylston Street Diatoms (Robert Edgar) | Teuvo Ahti honored | Visiting Lichenologists
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)
2006
Spring (no. 47) | Fall (no. 48)
 
The Myxomycete Collection at the Farlow Herbarium (Genevieve Lewis-Gentry) | Anton deBary | Catacomb Curiosity - Navicula americana Ehrenberg (Robert Edgar)
Ascomycota truffles: Cup fungi go underground. (Karen Hansen) | Tulasne Brothers Exhibit (Lisa DeCesare) | Harvard honors Professor Donald Pfister (Judy Warnement)
2005
Spring (no. 45) | Fall (no. 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)
There's more to Indian Pipe than meets the eye. (Sylvia Yang) | Farlow / Lister Correspondence (Lisa Decesare)
2004
Spring (no. 43) | Fall (no. 44)
 
History of Mycological Illustration Exhibit (Lisa DeCesare)
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)
2003
Spring (no. 41) | Fall (no. 42)
 
Fungi in the Fossil Record of the Rhynie, Scotland (David Hewitt) | New Exhibits on the Botany Libraries Web Site (Lisa DeCesare)
The William A.Terry Diatom Collection (Robert K. Edgar) | Who was M. A. Robinson? (Judy Warement)
2002
Spring (no. 39) | Fall (no. 40)
 
Lichens and Bryophytes of the Boston Harbor Islands (Scott LeGreca) | Algae: Nature and Art on Martha's Vineyard (Judy Warnement)
Lichens and Politics Meet on Mount Everett (Philip May)
2001
Spring (no. 37) | Fall (no. 38)
 
Recent Bryological Studies of Adirondack Mountain Alpine Summits (Norton G. Miller) | A Farlow Exhibit of Select Mycological Illustrators 1890-1925 (Lisa DeCesare)
Mushroom Portraits Visit the Farlow (Lise DeCesare)
2000
Spring (no. 35) | Fall (no. 36)
 
Why Are There So Many Different Kinds of Mushrooms? (David S. Hibbett)
Counting Fungi (Donald H. Pfister) | On Display in the Farlow Lobby Cyttaria: A Curious Fungus (Kris Peterson)
1999
Spring (no. 33) | Fall (no. 34)
 
From Roland Thaxter to PCR: A Century of Work on the Loboulbeniales (Alex Weir)
Antarctica: Where Cryptogams are King (Rick Weinstein)
1998
Spring (no. 32)
 
Lichen Hunting in French Guiana (Phil May)
1997
Spring (no. 30) | Fall (no. 31)
 
Symbiosis (R.K. Edgar)
Liking Lichens (Donald H. Pfister)
1996
Spring (no. 28) | Fall (no. 29)
 
Some fungicolous fungi (F.A. Harrington)
A Mossy Expedition to Brunei Darussalam (Benito C. Tan)
1995
Spring (no. 26) | Fall (no. 27)
 
Roland Thaxter and the Farlow (Carolyn S. Hesterberg)
W. G. Farlow - His Life and Times | Lichens at the Arnold Arboretum | Thaxter Archival Project
1994
Spring (no. 24) | Fall (no. 25)
 
Nematode-Destroying Fungi at the Farlow (Michael Liftik)
A Bryological Glimpse of China (William R. Buck) | The Lichen of Tenshin-En (Elizabeth Kneiper)
1993
Spring (no. 22) | Fall (no. 23)
 
Seaweeds & Providence (Robert K. Edgar)
The "Ubiquitous Diatom" Revisited (J. Patrick Kociolek)
1992
Spring (no. 20) | Fall (no. 21)
 
Palawan Island: A Moss Refugium in the Philippines? (Benito C. Tan)
"Slow Fires: in Harvard Libraries (Jean Boise Cargill)
1991
Spring (no. 18) | Fall (no. 19)
 
Farlow's Students | Bryophyte Red List (Benito C. Tan) | Lilian Horsford Farlow (Carolyn Hesterberg)
Asa Gray Saves Farlow for Harvard (A. Hunter Dupree) | Flora of China (Benito C. Tan)
1990
Spring (no. 16) | Fall (no. 17)
 
Sex and Taxonomy in Cladonia (Samuel Hammer)
Prochloron (Barry Wulff) | A Trove of Southeastern Asiatic Mosses (Benito C. Tan) | Lichens & Evolution (Sharon P. Gowan)
1989
Spring (no. 14) | Fall (no. 15)
 
Boston Lichens: Past, Present and Future (Elizabeth J. Kneiper)
Epigraphs: Lastly Chosen First Lines From Works In The Farlow
1988
Spring (no. 12) | Fall (no. 13)
 
Species (Brent D. Mishler)
A Decade of Change: The Farlow Herbarium in the 1970's (Carolyn Hesterberg)
1987
Spring (no. 10) | Fall (no. 11)
 
Sunken Wrack and Ooze (Robert K. Edgar)
The Art of the Title Page (Donald H. Pfister) | Mycology in Malaysia
1986
Spring (no. 8) | Fall (no. 9)
 
A Hundred Years in the Life of a Library (Jean R. Boise)
Halimeda and Coral Reef Research at the Farlow (Llewellya Hillis-Colinvaux)
1985
Spring (no. 6) | Fall (no. 7)
 
A Mycologist Visits the Mountain of the Mist (Roy Halling) 
Richard Spruce, Hepaticologist (Barbara M. Thiers) | Bryophytes of Northeastern North America (Brent D. Mishler)
1984
Spring (no. 4) | Fall (no. 5)
 
Nostoc (Barry L. Wulff)
New England's Spring Ascomycetes (Donald H. Pfister)
1983
Spring (no. 2) | Fall (no. 3)
 
Lichens" The Lamb Inside the Lion (Donald H. Pfister)
Diatom Collections at the Farlow (Robert K. Edgar) | An Introduction to the Farlow Library
1982
Fall (no. 1)
 
Introducing the Farlow...