Formation
The Society was formed based on the efforts of two local societies, the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club of Hereford and the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. The curator of the Hereford club, Dr. H.G. Bull, convinced the members in 1867 to undertake the particular study of mushrooms. While the mycological efforts of the club diminished somewhat upon the death of Dr. Bull, the Union of Yorkshire took the lead and founded its mycological committee in 1892. This committee attracted many eminent mycologists including Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825–1914), Carleton Rea (1861–1946), George Edward Massee (1850–1917), Charles Bagge Plowright (1849–1910) and others.
The need for a national organization and the need for a journal to publish their observations led M.C. Cooke, C. Rea, G.E. Massee, Charles Crossland (1844–1916) and other mycologists to found the Society in 1896. Elected as the first officers were G.E. Massee as president, C. Crossland as treasurer, and C. Rea as secretary. The choice of G.E. Massee for president was based on his international reputation (he had more than 250 mycological publications) and his role as the mycologist at the Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew (where he had replaced M.C. Cooke as mycologist in 1893). In 1897, C. Rea assumed the function of treasurer, remained secretary until 1918 and was editor until 1930.
Read more about this topic: British Mycological Society
Famous quotes containing the word formation:
“Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“I want you to consider this distinction as you go forward in life. Being male is not enough; being a man is a right to be earned and an honor to be cherished. I cannot tell you how to earn that right or deserve that honor. . . but I can tell you that the formation of your manhood must be a conscious act governed by the highest vision of the man you want to be.”
—Kent Nerburn (20th century)