6 THE FOUNDING OF MYCOLOGY 



richly desen^es the title, Father of American Mycology. He 

 collected about 3000 species of fungi in North Carolina and 

 Pennsylvania, 1200 of which he described as new in Synopsis 

 Fimgorinn Carolinae Sitperioris and in Synopsis Fungonim in 

 America Boreali Media Degentiiim. 



Fig. 2. Professor George F. Atkinson (1854-1918), under whose guidance 

 at Cornell University many mycologists were trained. His researches 

 primarily involved problems in developmental morphology and taxonomy 



of fungi. 



Corda's Icones Fiingonmi Hiiciisqiie Cognitonmt, appearing in 

 six volumes published from 1837 to 1854, contains drawings and 

 descriptions of all fungi found in Austria and known to Corda. 

 Of a similar nature, the Tulasne brothers' Selecta Fimgonini 

 Carpologia, published in 1861 to 1865 in three volumes, remains 

 unequalled and unsurpassed in beauty of illustrations. 



