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

Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

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

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