Dow Baxter

Dow Vauter Baxter (January 16, 1895 – December 31, 1965) was an American mycologist. He was an authority on wood-decay fungi, especially the polypores. Baxter was a professor of forest pathology at the University of Michigan, where he started employment in 1926.^[1] The fungus Rhizopogon baxteri was named in Baxter's honor.^[2]

He also published an illustrated account of fieldwork with two colleagues to study Alaskan forests and forest diseases.^[3]

The standard author abbreviation D.V.Baxter is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[4]

References

^ Smith, Alexander H. (1967). "Dow V. Baxter (1965–1965)". Mycologia. 59 (4): 565–567. doi:10.1080/00275514.1967.12018448. JSTOR 3757084. PMID 5342846.
^ Smith, A.H.; Zeller, S.M. (1966). A Preliminary Account of the North American Species of Rhizopogon. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. Vol. 14. p. 105.
^ Baxter, Dow V.; Labaree, Benjamin; Hildebrand, Willard (1937). On and Off Alaskan Trails. Self-published.
^ International Plant Names Index. D.V.Baxter.

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