Mycologists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Chapters: Beatrix Potter, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Silvia Blumenfeld, George Engelmann, List of mycologists, Ferdinand von Mueller, Nathaniel Wallich, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Johan Theodor Holmskjold, Carolus Clusius, Charles David Badham, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans, Greta Stevenson, Douglas Barton Osborne Savile, Raymond St. Leger, Gastón Guzmán, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Stephan Endlicher, Øjvind Winge, John Macoun, George Edward Massee, Carlos Luigi Spegazzini, R. W. G. Dennis, Christopher Edmund Broome, P.D. Orton, Abraham Z. Joffe, Bryce Kendrick, Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, Arthur Disbrowe Cotton, William Leigh Williamson Eyre, Carl Ludwig Blume, Derek Reid, Nick Jardine, Elsie Maud Wakefield, Carleton Rea, A.A. Pearson, Göran Wahlenberg, Howard E. Bigelow, John Medley Wood, Konstantin Mereschkowski, Samuel Frederick Gray, Machiel Noordeloos, Felix von Thümen, Patricio Ponce de León, Michel Étienne Descourtilz, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, G. H. Cunningham, Frank Newhook, Joan Dingley, Carl Borivoj Presl, Maurice Beeli, Christine Marie Berkhout, David Leslie Hawksworth, Cornelius Lott Shear, Cornelis Bas. Excerpt: Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 - 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist best known for children's books featuring anthropomorphic characters such as in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and rural lifestyle. Born into a privileged household, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram, grew up with few friends outside her large extended family. As children they had numerous pets and spent holidays in the south of England, in Scotland, and in the English Lake District. There she developed a love of the natural world which she closely observed and painted from an early age. Her parents were artistic and interested in nature and the out of doors. While Beatrix was happily never sent off to boarding school, her education in languages, literature, science and history was broad and she was an eager student. Although she was provided with private art lessons, Beatrix preferred to develop her own style, particularly favoring watercolor. In her twenties, she concentrated on the study of fungi mycology, of ancient artifacts archeology, and of geology, and achieved a measure of respect from the scientific establishment for her reproduction of fungi spores and her scientific illustrations. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it privately, and then in 1902 as a small, three-color illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. Between 1902 and 1918 she published over twenty popular children's books. With the proceeds from the books and a small legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a tiny village in the English Lake District near Ambleside. Over the next several decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. In 1913 at the age of 47 she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead. Potter became a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep