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Mycology from the Library of Nils Fries
CENTRALANTIKVARIATET catalogue 82 MYCOLOGY from the library of nils fries CENTRALANTIKVARIATET catalogue 82 MYCOLOGY from the library of nils fries stockholm mmxvi 15 centralantikvariatet österlånggatan 53 111 31 stockholm +46 8 411 91 36 www.centralantikvariatet.se e-mail: [email protected] bankgiro 585-2389 medlem i svenska antikvariatföreningen member of ilab grafisk form och foto: lars paulsrud tryck: eo grafiska 2016 Vignette on title page from 194 PREFACE It is with great pleasure we are now able to present our Mycology catalogue, with old and rare books, many of them beautifully illustrated, about mushrooms. In addition to being fine mycological books in their own right, they have a great provenance, coming from the libraries of several members of the Fries family – the leading botanist and mycologist family in Sweden. All of the books are from the library of Nils Fries (1912–94), many from that of his grandfather Theodor (Thore) M. Fries (1832–1913), and a few from the library of Nils’ great grandfather Elias M. Fries (1794–1878), “fa- ther of Swedish mycology”. All three were botanists and professors at Uppsala University, as were many other members of the family, often with an orientation towards mycology. Nils Fries field of study was the procreation of mushrooms. Furthermore, Nils Fries has had a partiality for interesting provenances in his purchases – and many international mycologists are found among the former owners of the books in the catalogue. Four of the books are inscribed to Elias M. Fries, and it is probable that more of them come from his collection. Thore M. -
Charles Darwin's
GORDON CHANCELLOR AND JOHN VAN WYHE This book is the first-ever full edition of the notebooks used by Charles Darwin during his epic voyage in the Beagle. Darwin’s Beagle notebooks are the most direct sources we have for CHANCELLOR VAN WYHE VAN his experiences on this journey, and they now survive as some of the most precious CHARLES DARWIN’S documents in the history of science and exploration, written by the man who later used these notes to develop one of the greatest scientific theories of all time. notebooks from the voyage The book contains complete transcriptions of the 15 notebooks which Darwin used over the 5 years of the voyage to record his ‘on the spot’ geological and general observations. of the ‘beagle’ Unlike the many other documents that he also created, the field notebooks are not confined to any one subject or genre. Instead, they record the full range of his interests and activities foreword by during the voyage, with notes and observations on geology, zoology, botany, ecology, weather notebooks from the voyage notes, barometer and thermometer readings, depth soundings, ethnography, anthropology, CHARLES DARWIN’S RICHARD DARWIN archaeology and linguistics, along with maps, drawings, financial records, shopping lists, KEYNES reading notes, memoranda, theoretical essays and personal diary entries. of the ‘beagle’ Some of Darwin’s critical discoveries and experiences, made famous through his own publications, are recorded in their most immediate form in the notebooks, and published here for the very first time. The notebook texts are accompanied by full editorial apparatus and introductions which explain in detail Darwin’s actions at each stage of the voyage, and focus on discoveries which were pivotal to convincing him that life on Earth had evolved. -
1 Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the `Beagle`. Transcribed, Edited and Introduced by Gordon Chancellor and John
Charles Darwin’s Notebooks from the Voyage of the `Beagle`. Transcribed, edited and introduced by Gordon Chancellor and John van Wythe. xxxiii + 615 pp. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2009. $ 150 (cloth). Until now, it has not been possible to read in book form the immediate notes that Darwin himself had written during his 1832-1836 voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Darwin’s Beagle records comprised five different kinds: field notebooks, personal diary, geological and zoological diaries, and specimen catalogues. Unlike the many other documents that Darwin created during the voyage, the field notebooks are not confined to any one subject. They contain notes and observations on geology, zoology, botany, ecology, weather notes, barometer and thermometer readings, ethnography, archaeology, and linguistics as well as maps, drawings, financial records, shopping lists, reading notes, and personal entries. The editors described the notebooks as the most difficult and complex of all of Darwin’s manuscripts. They were for the most part written in pencil which was often faint or smeared. They were generally not written while sitting at a desk but held in one hand, on mule or horseback or on the deck of the Beagle. Furthermore the lines were very short and much was not written in complete sentences. Added to this, they were full of Darwin’s chaotic spelling of foreign names so the handwriting was sometimes very difficult to decipher. Alternative readings were often possible. Darwin did not number the pages of the notebooks, and often wrote in them at different times from opposite ends. Most of the notebook space was devoted to geological descriptions and drawings, a reflection of Darwin’s interest in the works of Charles Lyell and his previous fieldwork with Adam Sedgwick. -
The Phylogeny of Plant and Animal Pathogens in the Ascomycota
Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology (2001) 59, 165±187 doi:10.1006/pmpp.2001.0355, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on MINI-REVIEW The phylogeny of plant and animal pathogens in the Ascomycota MARY L. BERBEE* Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada (Accepted for publication August 2001) What makes a fungus pathogenic? In this review, phylogenetic inference is used to speculate on the evolution of plant and animal pathogens in the fungal Phylum Ascomycota. A phylogeny is presented using 297 18S ribosomal DNA sequences from GenBank and it is shown that most known plant pathogens are concentrated in four classes in the Ascomycota. Animal pathogens are also concentrated, but in two ascomycete classes that contain few, if any, plant pathogens. Rather than appearing as a constant character of a class, the ability to cause disease in plants and animals was gained and lost repeatedly. The genes that code for some traits involved in pathogenicity or virulence have been cloned and characterized, and so the evolutionary relationships of a few of the genes for enzymes and toxins known to play roles in diseases were explored. In general, these genes are too narrowly distributed and too recent in origin to explain the broad patterns of origin of pathogens. Co-evolution could potentially be part of an explanation for phylogenetic patterns of pathogenesis. Robust phylogenies not only of the fungi, but also of host plants and animals are becoming available, allowing for critical analysis of the nature of co-evolutionary warfare. Host animals, particularly human hosts have had little obvious eect on fungal evolution and most cases of fungal disease in humans appear to represent an evolutionary dead end for the fungus. -
John Hooper - Pioneer British Batman
NEWSLETTER AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON VOLUME 26 x NUMBER xJULY 2010 THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON Registered Charity Number 220509 Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BF Tel. (+44) (0)20 7434 4479; Fax: (+44) (0)20 7287 9364 e-mail: [email protected]; internet: www.linnean.org President Secretaries Council Dr Vaughan Southgate BOTANICAL The Officers and Dr Sandra D Knapp Prof Geoffrey Boxshall Vice-Presidents Prof Mark Chase Dr Mike Fay ZOOLOGICAL Prof Dianne Edwards Dr Sandra D Knapp Dr Malcolm Scoble Mr Alistair Land Dr Keith Maybury Dr Terry Langford Dr Malcolm Scoble EDITORIAL Mr Brian Livingstone Dr John R Edmondson Prof Geoff Moore Treasurer Ms Sara Oldfield Professor Gren Ll Lucas OBE COLLECTIONS Dr Sylvia Phillips Mrs Susan Gove Mr Terence Preston Executive Secretary Dr Mark Watson Dr Ruth Temple Librarian Dr David Williams Mrs Lynda Brooks Prof Patricia Willmer Financial Controller/Membership Mr Priya Nithianandan Deputy Librarian Conservator Mr Ben Sherwood Ms Janet Ashdown Building and Office Manager Ms Victoria Smith Honorary Archivist Conservation Assistant Ms Gina Douglas Ms Lucy Gosnay Communications Manager Ms Claire Inman Special Publications and Education Manager Ms Leonie Berwick Office Assistant Mr Tom Helps THE LINNEAN Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London ISSN 0950-1096 Edited by Brian G Gardiner Editorial ................................................................................................................ 1 Society News.............................................................................................................. -
Reader 19 05 19 V75 Timeline Pagination
Plant Trivia TimeLine A Chronology of Plants and People The TimeLine presents world history from a botanical viewpoint. It includes brief stories of plant discovery and use that describe the roles of plants and plant science in human civilization. The Time- Line also provides you as an individual the opportunity to reflect on how the history of human interaction with the plant world has shaped and impacted your own life and heritage. Information included comes from secondary sources and compila- tions, which are cited. The author continues to chart events for the TimeLine and appreciates your critique of the many entries as well as suggestions for additions and improvements to the topics cov- ered. Send comments to planted[at]huntington.org 345 Million. This time marks the beginning of the Mississippian period. Together with the Pennsylvanian which followed (through to 225 million years BP), the two periods consti- BP tute the age of coal - often called the Carboniferous. 136 Million. With deposits from the Cretaceous period we see the first evidence of flower- 5-15 Billion+ 6 December. Carbon (the basis of organic life), oxygen, and other elements ing plants. (Bold, Alexopoulos, & Delevoryas, 1980) were created from hydrogen and helium in the fury of burning supernovae. Having arisen when the stars were formed, the elements of which life is built, and thus we ourselves, 49 Million. The Azolla Event (AE). Hypothetically, Earth experienced a melting of Arctic might be thought of as stardust. (Dauber & Muller, 1996) ice and consequent formation of a layered freshwater ocean which supported massive prolif- eration of the fern Azolla. -
The Charles Knight-Joseph Hooker Correspondence
A man tenax propositi: transcriptions of letters from Charles Knight to William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker between 1852 and 1883 David J. Galloway Hon. Research Associate Landcare Research, and Te Papa Tongarewa [email protected] Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133J December 2013 Published by the Geoscience Society of New Zealand Inc, 2013 Information on the Society and its publications is given at www.gsnz.org.nz © Copyright David J. Galloway, 2013 Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133J ISBN 978-1-877480-36-2 ISSN 2230-4495 (Online) ISSN 2230-4487 (Print) This document is available as a PDF file that can be downloaded from the Geoscience Society website at: http://www.gsnz.org.nz/information/misc-series-i-49.html Bibliographic Reference Galloway D.J. 2013: A man tenax propositi: transcriptions of letters from Charles Knight to William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker between 1852 and 1883 Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133J. 88 pages. A man tenax propositi: transcriptions of letters from Charles Knight to William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker between 1852 and 1883 Contents Introduction 3 Charles Knight correspondence at Kew 5 Acknowledgements 6 Summaries of the letters 7 Transcriptions of the letters from Charles Knight 15 Footnotes 70 References 77 Figure 1: Dr Charles Knight FLS, FRCS 2 Figure 2: Group photograph including Charles Knight 2 Figure 3: Page of letter from Knight to Hooker 14 Table 1: Comparative chronology of Charles Knight, W.J. Hooker and J.D. Hooker 86 1 Figure 1: Dr Charles Knight FLS, FRCS Alexander Turnbull Library,Wellington, New Zealand ¼-015414 Figure 2: Group taken in Walter Mantell‟s garden about 1865 showing Charles Knight (left), John Buchanan and James Hector (right) and Walter Mantell and his young son, Walter Godfrey Mantell (seated on grass). -
Nora Barlow and the Darwin Legacy (Smith, in Process)
Advancing Women Home | Job Search | Career Strategies |Business| Entrepreneur | Web | Money | Education | Network | International Advancing Women in Leadership Online Journal Volume 19, Fall 2005 Call for AWL Journal Home Current Volume Archives Manuscripts/Guidelines [ Journal Index ] Nora Barlow - A Modern Cambridge Victorian And 'The Many Lives of Modern Woman' Louis M. Smith An Introduction: Integrating Divergent Items The audience and thesis of a book carry multiple implications for what will follow in the discussion. In reading The many lives of modern woman (Gruenberg and Krech, 1952), I found the authors speaking to a number of issues about which I was concerned. In particular they seemed to offer a kind of subtext to the last chapter of the biography I am writing, Nora Barlow and the Darwin legacy (Smith, In process). If that works out, it is a major discovery or accomplishment. Further, when colleagues Sharon Lee and Kelly McKerrow sent a call for papers on women, leadership, and social justice, I thought the Gruenberg and Krech book spoke not only to the Barlow life but also to the Lee and McKerrow request. My intension and task is the integration of a review of a classic book, and a view and commentary of the life of Nora Barlow, a privileged 19th Century woman. She was well to do and part of the intellectual aristocracy of England. A part of her life concerned the issues of community leadership and for her, at a very personal level, attempts at the resolution of the problems of equality and social justice. Finally in this essay review I present, and try to integrate, a series of more autobiographical comments of the interrelationships between the book and my, and my wife's, personal lives. -
The Lichens 19
GALLOWAY: HUMBOLDT MOUNTAINS: THE LICHENS 19 V E GET A T ION S T U DIE SON TH E HUM B 0 L D T M 0 U N T A INS FIORDLAND PART 2: THE LICHENS D. J. GALLOWAY Biochemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin SUMMARY The commonest epiphytic foliose lichens in the beech forest are species of Sticta, some often A detailed list is given of the species of reaching great size: S. hirta, S. coronata, S. macrolichens collected from the western slopes of the Humboldt Mountains, Fiordland. The latifrons, S. filix. The most common epiphytic fruticose lichens are species of Usnea and composition and possible importance is dis- cussed of "sub-regional" lichen communities. Sphaerophorus. U snea xanthopoga and U. capiUacea are INTRODUCTION common on twigs of Nothofagus in well-lit situations either at the forest edge or at the The lichen flora of New Zealand is still top of the canopy. Sphaerophorus tener is a imperfectly known and details of its regional common epiphyte and other members of this composition are lacking for much of the genus represented in lesser numbers are several country. A survey of the rather scattered varieties of S. melanocarpus and occasionally literature reveals that very little taxonomic or S. stereocauloides. This, the largest species of ecological work has been done on the alpine the genus and the only one to have cephalodia, lichens. The great difficulty in field lichenology appears to be restricted to areas of high rainfall is accurate recognition of species, particularly in west and south-west areas of the South in alpine regions, where crustaceous lichens, Island. -
Australas. Lichenol. 46
Australasian Lichenology Number 46, January 2000 Australasian Lichenology Menegazzia dielsii (Hillmann) R. Sant. Number 46, January 2000 =w= -= -.- Menegazzia.. pertransita. (Stirton) R. Sant. Smm (hydrated) 5 mm ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS 14th meeting of Australasian lichenologists, Melbourne, 2000 ......................... 2 5th International Flora Malesiana Symposiwn, Sydney, 2001 ......................... 2 Australian lichen checklist now on the Web ....................................................... 2 New book-Australian rainforest lichens ................................ .. ......................... 3 New calendar-Australasian cryptogams ........................................................... 3 RECENT LITERATURE ON AUSTRALASIAN LICHENS .................................. 4 ARTICLES Archer, AW-Platygrapha albovestita C. Knight, an additional synonym for Cyclographina platyleuca (Nyl.) D.D. Awasthi & M. Joshi ............................. 6 Galloway, DJ-Contributions to a history of New Zealand lichenology 3. The French ...................................... .......................................................................... 7 Elix, JA- A new species of Karoowia from Australia ...................................... 18 McCarthy, PM-Porina austropaci/ica (Trichotheliaceae), a new species from Norfolk Island .................................................................................................. 21 Elix, JA; Griffin, FK; Louwhoff, SHJJ-Norbaeomycesic acid, a new depside from the lichen Hypotrachyna oriental is ....................................................... -
Annual Report 2008 Final Web.P65
THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BF Tel: +44 (0)20 7434 4479; Fax: +44 (0)20 72879364; E-Mail: [email protected] The Linnean Society’s purpose as a living forum for biology is to communicate scientific ideas and advances. It embraces the entire sweep of the natural sciences, but focuses particularly on over-arching themes such as biological diversity, evolution, taxonomy, science policy and conservation. The Society works through a network of partnerships in the scientific community. In an era of specialisation the Society promotes the transfer of information across disciplinary boundaries. It collaborates with government and international organisations to highlight the urgency and magnitude of the task of documenting the world’s flora and fauna. The Linnean Society was founded in 1788 for ‘the cultivation of the Science of Natural History in all its branches’. The Society is named after the great 18th Century Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778), who created the binomial system of biological classification now used throughout the world. The Society acquired Linnaeus’s collection of plant and animal specimens, and his books and letters, from its first President, James Edward Smith. The Society has been at the heart of many scientific and cultural developments relating to our understanding of the natural world. Most notably, Charles Darwin’s and Alfred Russell Wallace’s epoch-making papers on evolution by natural selection were first read at a meeting of the Society. The Society is proud of its past, but is equally enthusiastic about its future. Today it encourages discussion and research by: ♦ publishing three leading international journals on biology, botany and zoology. -
Phytochemical Review of the Lichen Genus Stereocaulon (Fam
Phytochem Rev https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-018-9576-y Phytochemical review of the lichen genus Stereocaulon (Fam. Stereocaulaceae) and related pharmacological activities highlighted by a focus on nine species Friardi Ismed . Franc¸oise Lohe´zic-Le De´ve´hat . Annie Guiller . Nina Corlay . Amri Bakhtiar . Joel Boustie Received: 16 January 2018 / Accepted: 11 May 2018 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The Stereocaulon genus is one of the isolated compounds have been compiled. Biological fruticose lichen groups distributed worldwide from activities as cytotoxic, anti-inflammatory, antibacte- tropical zones to polar zones. However, the scientific rial, antifungal or antioxidant are reported. study of this tricky genus is still limited, making it a challenge to study the group further. Detailed mor- Keywords Biogenetic Á Bioactivities Á Folk phological studies are essential to discriminate closely medicines Á Lichens Á Secondary metabolites Á shaped species which is illustrated through personal Stereocaulon data focused on phyllocladia, apothecia and spores of nine species. Secondary metabolites isolated from Stereocaulon species are mostly some depsides, depsidones, diphenylethers and dibenzofurans which Introduction can have a taxonomic value. The use of Stereocaulon lichens as a traditional medicine in several regions of Among the symbiotic organism called lichen formed the world and pharmacological studies of extracts and between two major different partners that are fungi (mycobiont) and/or algae/cyanobacteria as photobiont without excluding the lichen-associated microbiome, Electronic supplementary material The online version of one of an interesting genus is Stereocaulon. The genus this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-018-9576-y) con- tains supplementary material, which is available to authorized Stereocaulon Hoffm.