British Mycological Society
The British Mycological Society Established in 1896 British Society of Mycology .
The society was formed from the amalgamation of local naturalists' associations, the Woolhope Field Naturalists' Club from Hereford and the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union (YNU). The Woolhope Field Naturalists' Club was based in the Hereford Museum, whose curator Henry Graves Bull encouraged the association to focus more on the topic of mushrooms and invited both associations to an “excursion into the world of mushrooms”. In the first week of October, an annual meeting was then held in Hereford, which was gradually attended by other mycologists and interested parties from Great Britain , but also from abroad.
After Bull's death in 1885, this tradition fell asleep for the time being. In 1892, the YNU formed a mycological committee composed of Mordecai Cubitt Cooke , Carleton Rea (1861-1946), George Edward Massee , Charles Bagge Plowright (1849-1910), Charles Crossland (1844-1916), former members of the Woolhope Field Naturalists' Club and other interested parties and which also maintained the tradition of the earlier annual meetings. First president was Massee and first secretary until 1918 was Carleton Rea.
The idea of founding a mycological society arose from 1895, among other things, from the project to publish mycological specialist publications.
They published the Transactions of the British Mycological Society since 1896 (called Mycological Research from 1989 and Fungal Biology from 2010 ). They appear monthly. From 1967 they also published a bulletin ( called The Mycologist from 1987 and Fungal Biology Reviews from 2007 ). Since 2000 they have published the quarterly journal Field Mycology .
There is the status of honorary member (Honorary Member). In 2006 they had over 2000 members.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/society/history/
- ^ History on the British Mycological Society website; Retrieved July 24, 2015.