John Ramsbottom

Image of John Ramsbottom from Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes

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Biography

British mycologist, very erudite. Floruit first half of the 20th century. He seems to have mainly been an educator and facilitator of other people's work, and wrote quite a bit on historical and human-interest aspects of mycology. He had a position as keeper (we call it "curator", here) at the British Museum.

Selected Publications

John Ramsbottom (1917) "George Edward Massee" in Journal of Botany 55 p. 225

John Ramsbottom (1923) A handbook of the larger British Fungi 222 pp.

Includes all the genera and the more prominent species of British Basidiomycetes and fleshy Ascomycetes

John Ramsbottom (1953) Mushrooms and Toadstools

A fun popular-science book on fungi, with a historical bent: just about every topic in it is discussed in context of its earliest recorded appearance, and followed on down through the ages.

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