IM Rom (.HON. 



objects ot iiatiirr worthy of observation, if it siiLcecils in aitiinji those 

 who are seekin^i information of \hv edible kinds, and stinuilates 

 some students to undertake the advancement of our knowledge of 

 this jiroup, it will ser\e the purpose the author liaei in mind in its 

 preparation. 



I wisli here to express m\- siiueri.- thanl<s to Mrs. Sarali 'I'yson 

 Rorer for iier Uiiulness in writing a chapter on recipes for cooking 

 imishrooMis, especially lor this book ; to Professor I. 1'. Roberts, 

 Director of the Cornell I'niversity Ac;ricultural hxperiment Station, 

 tor permission to use certain of the illustrations (Ki^s. i 7, 12 14, 31- 

 43) from Bulletins 138 and i6(S, Studies and Illustrations of Mush- 

 rooms; to Mr. F. R. Rathhun, for the charts from which the colored 

 plates were made; to Mr. J. F. Clark and Mr. H. Hasselbrinji, for 

 the chapters on Chemistry and Toxicology of Mushrooms, and Char- 

 acters of Mushrooms, to which tlieir names are appended, and also to 

 Dr. Chas. Peck, of Albany, N. Y., and Dr. G. Bresadola, of 

 Austria-Hungary, to whom some of the specimens have been 

 submitted. 



Geo. F. Atkinson, 

 Ithaca, N. Y., October, 1900. Cornell University. 



