Person
Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt (1825 - 1914)
- Born
- 1825
- Died
- 1914
- Occupation
- Cryptogamic botanist and Mycologist
Summary
Mordecai Cooke produced the first comprehensive account of Australian fungi in his monograph "Handbook of Australian Fungi" published in 1892. The manuscript was based on a series of papers and studies conducted by Cooke and George Massee at Kew Herbarium on specimens shipped from Australia to England. Unfortunately, the transportation of the fungi proved problematic and many of the entries in the manuscript are inaccurate due to damage and ageing of the specimens on their journey from Australia to Mordecai Cooke.
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Books
- Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt, Handbook of Australian fungi (London, England: Williams and Norgate, for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2351239. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/107592390/. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1288737. Details
Resource Sections
- English, Mary P, 'Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt (1825 - 1914)', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-37312. Details
Elizabeth Daniels
Created: 19 March 2019