Related Research Articles
John Ramsbottom was a British mycologist.
The British Mycological Society is a learned society established in 1896 to promote the study of fungi.
The peridium is the protective layer that encloses a mass of spores in fungi. This outer covering is a distinctive feature of gasteroid fungi.
Worthington George Smith was an English cartoonist and illustrator, archaeologist, plant pathologist, and mycologist.
George Edward Massee was an English mycologist, plant pathologist, and botanist.
Carleton Rea was an English mycologist, botanist, and naturalist.
Reverend William Leigh Williamson Eyre was an English mycologist and naturalist.
The Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club is a society devoted to the natural history, geology, archaeology, and history of Herefordshire, England. Founded in 1851, it has had many notable members and played an important early role in the history of mycology in Britain.
Charles Crossland was an English mycologist.
Gulielma Lister was a British botanist and mycologist and was considered an international authority on Mycetozoa.
John Farrah, F.L.S., F.R.Met.S was a British grocer, confectioner, biologist and meteorologist from Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. In the late 19th century he developed the business strategy for Farrah's toffee shop which he inherited from his family in Harrogate. He was made a fellow of the Meteorological Society in 1894. He was president of the botanical section of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, working with Thomas Sheppard, George Edward Massee, William Eagle Clarke and Charles Crossland, and in 1903 discovered the mycological species Entoloma farrahi, which was named after him, although there has been some question as to its identity since then. He was a close friend of Harrogate historian William Grainge and for some years they were "constant companions", supporting each other in their work. The American mycologist George Francis Atkinson described him as a "great Yorkshire character". Farrah married three times, and had three children.
William Norwood Cheesman was an English businessman and mycologist from Selby who contributed to studies on fungi and slime moulds as an amateur and founding member of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union and the British Mycological Society. He contributed principally as a collector with most species described by others including George Edward Massee. The fungal species Coprinus cheesmanii, Cyphella cheesmanii, and Verticicladium cheesmanii were named after him.
Henry Thomas Soppitt was an English mycologist, plant pathologist, botanist and former greengrocer turned drysalter. He was a close collaborator with Charles Crossland, James Needham, and George Massee and was the first person to show a heteroecious lifecycle in a Puccinia species. Soppitt was a foundational member of the British Mycological Society.
The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union is an association of amateur and professional naturalists covering a wide range of aspects of natural history. It is one of United Kingdom's oldest extant wildlife organisations and oldest natural history federation. Its Mycological Committee, founded in 1892, is the oldest permanent organisation dedicated to the study of fungi in Great Britain.
James Needham was an English mycologist and iron moulder from Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. He was a founding member of the British Mycological Society. Notable for his working-class status, Needham became one of the foremost collectors of fungi and bryophytes in the UK.
Ivy Massee was an English mycologist, scientific illustrator and botanist.
William Denison Roebuck, was an English Naturalist, collector and writer, specialising in Malacology, Conchology and Limacology. He was one of the founding members and secretary of the Yorkshire Union of Naturalists, and the editor of its journal The Naturalist.
Elizabeth "Elsie" Marianne Blackwell was an English botanist and mycologist, known as an expert on Phytophthora. She was the president of the British Mycological Society for a one-year term from 1942 to 1943.
Ernest William Brockton Swanton was an English mycologist, botanist, conchologist, naturalist, antiquarian, and museum curator. He was the president of the British Mycological Society for the academic year 1915–1916 and the president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1921.
References
- ↑ Blackwell, Elizabeth (1961). "Fungus forays in Yorkshire and the history of the Mycological Committee". The Naturalist. 86: 163–168.
- 1 2 Smith, Nathan (2021). "Of stumps and stipes: comparisons between the cultures and identities of Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the turn of the twentieth century". Notes and Records. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2021.0036 . S2CID 237435704.
- ↑ Webster, John (1997). "Presidential Address 1996 : The British Mycological Society, 1896–1996". Mycological Research. 101 (10): 1153–1178. doi:10.1017/S0953756297004553.
- ↑ Blackwell, Elizabeth (1961). "Links with Past Yorkshire Mycologists". The Naturalist. 86: 53–66.
- ↑ Smith, Nathan (2020). "Narrative Histories in Mycology and the Legacy of George Edward Massee (1845-1917)". Archives of Natural History. 47 (2): 361–380.
- ↑ Atkinson, George. "Atkinson's 1903 Diary" (PDF). Cornell University. Retrieved 11 July 2022.