Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

Mordecai Cooke

Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (born July 12, 1825 in Horning , North Norfolk , † November 12, 1914 in Southsea ) was a British botanist and mycologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Cooke ".

Life

Cooke came from a family of businesspeople, was raised privately by an uncle, and trained as a businessman before joining a law firm. His main interest was botany. In 1862 he founded the Society of Amateur Botanists. From 1865 to 1895 he was editor (with Edward Step (1855-1931)) of the monthly popular science journal Hardwicke's Science Gossip and from 1872 to 1892 of the monthly journal Grevillea for cryptogam friends, in which he also wrote many of the articles. A year after he gave up the editorial office, it discontinued its publication. In 1865 he founded the Quekett Microscopical Club . He taught natural history at the Holy Trinity National School in Lambeth and was curator of the India Museum in the India Office from 1860 . When their botanical collection was added to that of the Botanical Gardens in Kew in 1879, Cooke went with them and became curator for cryptogams there. In 1892 he went into retirement there (his successor was George Edward Massee ). He was the author of numerous books on plants and mushrooms and other biological subjects.

He had a herbarium of 46,000 species and 25,000 tablets of mushrooms which later went to the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) .

In 1896 he was with George Edward Massee, Carleton Rea , Charles Bagge Plowright and some other well-known mycologists founders of the British Mycological Society .

He received an honorary Master of Arts from St. Lawrence University in 1870 and from Yale University in 1873 and an honorary doctorate from New York University . He received the Victoria Medal of Honor of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1902 and the Linnaeus Medal in 1903 .

Fonts

• The Seven Sisters of Sleep. Popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world , James Blackwood, London, 1860
• A Manual of Structural Botany: for the use of classes, schools, & private students ... With upwards of 200 illustrations by Ruffle , Robert Hardwicke, London, 1861, reprint 1877
• A Manual of Botanic Terms ... With illustrations , Robert Hardwicke, London, 1862, new edition in 1873
• The fungi of Brazil, including those collected by JWH Trail in 1874, in: The Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 1877.
• A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi: with descriptions of the esculent and poisonous species ... With twenty-four colored plates , Robert Hardwicke, London, 1862, 6th edition 1898 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.115890 doi: 10.5962 /bhl.title.4077 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.113883 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.17210
• Index Fungorum Britannicorum. A complete list of fungi found in the British Islands to the present date, etc. , Robert Hardwicke, London, 1863 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.119271
• Our reptiles. A plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs, and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain. With original figures of every species, and numerous woodcuts , Robert Hardwicke, London, 1865, new edition 1893 WH Allen & Co., London doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.10615 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.33106
• Rust, smut, mildew, & mold. An introduction to the study of microscopic fungi , Robert Hardwicke, London, 1865, new edition 1886 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.118048 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.4079 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.55798 doi: 10.5962 / bhl .title.4059 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.4067
• A Fern Book for Everybody. Containing all the British ferns. With the foreign species suitable for a fernery (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1867)
• One Thousand Objects for the Microscope, etc. , Robert Hardwicke, London, 1869, new edition 1895 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.24139
• mit Miles Joseph Berkeley : Handbook of British Fungi, with full descriptions of all the species and illustrations of the genera , 2 volumes, Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1871, new edition 1883, Biodiversity Library doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title .46003 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.5382
• Report on the Gums, Resins, Oleo-Resins, and Resinous Products in the India Museum, or produced in India. Prepared under the direction of the Reporter on the Products of India , London, 1874
• Fungi: their nature, influence, and uses , London, 1875, 4th edition 1895, new edition 1920, Project Gutenberg doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.55880 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.32368 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title. 56439
• Report on the Oil Seeds and Oils in the India Museum, or produced in India. Prepared under the direction of the Reporter on the Products of India , London, 1876
• The Woodlands , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1879 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.23204
• Mycographia, see Icones fungorum. Figures of fungi from all parts of the world, drawn and illustrated by MC Cooke , Williamsz & Norgate, London, 1875 and 1879
• Ponds and Ditches , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1880 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.114909
• Freaks and Marvels of Plant Life; or, Curiosities of vegetation , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1881 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.56831 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.12564
• Illustrations of British Fungi ... To serve as an atlas to the Handbook of British Fungi , 8 volumes, Williams & Norgate, London, 1881 to 1891 (1200 color plates by Cooke, Massee and others) doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.31343
• British Fresh-Water Algæ. Exclusive of Desmidieæ and Diatomaceæ, etc. , 2 volumes, Williams & Norgate, London, 1882–1884 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.56028 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.1627
• British Desmids. A supplement to British Fresh-Water Algæ, etc. , Williams & Norgate, London, 1887
• Toilers in the Sea. A study of marine life , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1889 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.29659
• Introduction to Fresh-Water Algæ with an enumeration of all the British species ... With thirteen plates, etc. , London, 1890
• British Edible Fungi: how to distinguish and how to cook them, etc. , Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, 1891 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.112378 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.3892 doi: 10.5962 /bhl.title.56845
• Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms. A popular history of entomogeneous fungi or fungi parasitic upon insects ... With ... illustrations , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1892 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.34922
• Romance of Low Life amongst Plants. Facts and phenomena of cryptogamic vegetation , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1893 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.5404
• Handbook of British Hepaticae, etc. , WH Allen & Co., London, 1894 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.25488 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.33866
• Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1894, 2nd edition 1902, Archives doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.3618 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.55091 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.120976
• Down the Lane and back, in search of wild flowers. By Uncle Matt , T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895
• Through the copse. Another ramble after flowers with Uncle Matt , T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895
• Around a Cornfield, in a ramble after wild flowers. By Uncle Matt , T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895
• Across the Common, after wild flowers. By Uncle Matt , T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895
• A Stroll on a Marsh, in search of wild flowers. By Uncle Matt , T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895
• Introduction to the Study of Fungi: their organography, classification, and distribution. For the use of collectors , Adam & Charles Black, London, 1895 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.54830 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.22349 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.46065
• Object-Lesson Handbooks to accompany the Royal Portfolio of Pictures and Diagrams , T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1897–1898
• Introduction to fresh water algae , K. Paul, 1902 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.115529
• Fungoid Pests of Cultivated Plants , Spottiswoode & Co., London, 1906 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.4211 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.32369 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.118061

He has also published over 300 scientific articles. He was the translator and editor of The Myxomycetes of Great Britain by Joszef Tomasz Rostafinski (1877) doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.1648 .

literature

• Mary P. English: Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Victorian Naturalist, Mycologist, Teacher & Eccentric , Biopress, Bristol 1987
• Geoffrey C. Ainsworth: Brief Biographies of British Mycologists (editors John Webster and David Moore), British Mycological Society 1996.

Web links

Commons : Mordecai Cubitt Cooke  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Biography at First Nature
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Mordecai Cubitt Cooke at the IPNI

References and comments

1. ^ Quekett Microscopical Club, History