|
Date: |
|
Description: | Content of collection: Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes, Fungi imperfecti and Phycomycetes.
The Fungi Collection consists of approximately 11,500 specimens stored on sheets within green folders and in bundles, volumes and slides. A large portion of the fungi was collected in Berlin or Charlottenberg and belongs to Paul Sydow's 1880s Mycotheca Marchica collection. There are also many Aberdeenshire specimens in green folders put together by James William Helenus Trail, and several specimens that Trail collected whilst in Norway. The collection also contains around 1440 slides of fungi created by Trail in the 1880s and 1890s. 37 of the specimens that have been stored in these slides have been identified as types. These include 4 Ascochyta types, 2 Phoma types and several Septoria types.
There are also two small distinct collections within the Fungi Collection: approximately 150 specimens collected by Trail in Orkney and around 170 specimens collected by Francis Buchanan White in Perthshire. The former small collection covers a variety of species, including 13 species of Puccinia. The latter also includes several species of Puccinia and also Uromyces.
The Fungi Collection also contains fascicules 2 and 3 of Reverend Miles Joseph Berkeley's 'British Fungi - Consisting of Dried Specimens of the Species, Described in Vol V., Part II. of the English Flora; together with such as may hereafter be discovered indigenous to Britain' (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman,1836 -1837). Berkeley is regarded by many as the founder of British mycology and is also known for correctly theorising that a fungus was the cause of diseased potatoes during the great Irish potato famine. The Fungi Collection also contains Reverend James Vize's 'Fungi Brittanici' - an 1873 volume containing 200 specimens, and 5 volumes of G. Herpell's 'Sammlung praparirter Hutpilze' (1884-1889). | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Contributor: | Acquisition details: The specimens in this collection were collected from various sources. The majority of the specimens are believed to have been presented by Professor George Dickie and James William Helenus Trail. | Identifier: | ABDUH:CLD03 | Go to resource |
|
|