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Berkeley's legacy – who cares?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2002

Stefan BUCZACKI
Stefan BUCZACKI
Affiliation:
P.O. Box 24, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire CV37 8ZB, UK.

Abstract

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The current state of professional mycology in Britain is considered in relation to the intellectual legacy left by the founding father of British mycology, the Reverend M. J. Berkeley (1803–1889). Through a review of Berkeley's life and work, it is suggested that there are many unexpected parallels between British mycology today and in the nineteenth century. Although there are now a considerable number of professional mycologists, support for professional mycology and mycological education is considered to be inadequate and seems in some ways to have advanced little in the past century and a half. It is concluded that above all, the current poor level of support for whole organism studies is the greatest betrayal of Berkeley's legacy.

Type
Presidential Address
Information
Mycological Research , Volume 105 , Issue 11 , November 2001 , pp. 1283 - 1294
Copyright
© The British Mycological Society 2001

Footnotes

Presidential address presented to the Society in the rooms of the Linnean Society of London on 2 December 2000.