MYGOLOGIGAL NOTES 



Issued by C. G. LLOYD. 



224 West Court Street, - CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. A little personal interest on the part 

 of the recipient in picking up and sending to my address, specimens of 

 the larger fungi. All are desired excepting specimens of fleshy Agarics. 

 Simply dry the specimens and send them in. 



LEWIS DAVID VON SCHWEINITZ. 



The subject of our photograph, on the preceding page, is the 

 pioneer mycologist of America. He it was who hewed the trail that 

 has since been followed. Schweinitz was born at Bethlehem, Pa., 

 February 13, 1780. His father came from Saxony, and was very 

 active in establishing the Moravian church in this country. In this 

 church young von Schweinitz was destined for the ministry, his edu- 

 cation being acquired in the theological institutions of this denomina- 

 tion. When eighteen years of age, his father was called to Germany, 

 and young Schweinitz was placed in college at Nisky, in what is 

 now Silesia (Prussia). There he came in contact with Professor J. B. 

 de Albertini, and the two enthusiastically pursued the study of the 

 fungi of that region. At that time, mycology in Europe was in its 

 formative stages, Persoon being the acknowledged authority. Al- 

 bertini and Schweinitz, in 1805, published a work devoted to fungi, 

 entitled Conspectus Fungorum in Lusatiae, which, with the exception 

 of Persoon's works, was the first important, systematic publication 

 on the subject. Although a rare book in the markets, it is to this 

 day an authority on European plants, being quoted under the familiar 

 title of "A. & S." The book is illustrated with twelve colored plates, 

 picturing ninety species. These were drawn by young Schweinitz, 

 and they are very good. I am not informed whether or not the col- 

 lection of plants made by Albertini and Schweinitz is still in existence. 

 They are not in the collection in Philadelphia, the only specimens I 

 have ever seen being a few in Persoon's herbarium. 



In 1812 Schweinitz returned to America, and was appointed 

 general agent of the Moravian church in the Southern United States, 

 with headquarters at Salem, X. C. Although much occupied with 

 clerical duties, he still continued his work with fungi, and about ten 

 years later, (1822), published at Leipsic, under the auspices of Schwae- 

 gnchen, his Synopsis Fungorum Carolinae Superioris. 1,373 species 

 were listed in this work, of which 315 were claimed to be new. 



In 1822 Schweinitz removed to his natal town, Bethlehem, Pa.. 

 where he resided until his death. February 8, 1834. at the age of 

 iftv-four years. In 1831 he presented to the Philadelphia Academy 



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