Cooke, M.C. (Mordecai Cubitt), 1825-1914

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1839-1844 apprentice to a wholesale draper, Norwich; 1844-1851 worked as a clerk, London; 1851-1859 master, Holy Trinity national school, Lambeth; 1862-1880 curator at the India Museum; 1865 co-founder of Science Gossip; 1880-1892 seconded to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, as cryptogamic botanist; published extensively, primarily on fungi.

Epithet: botanist and mycologist

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x000163

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referencedIn	William Wallace Denslow Botanical Manuscripts Collection MS 64., 1864-1868	Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
referencedIn	Farlow Reference Library collection of botanists papers, 1855-1946 (inclusive).	Harvard University, Farlow Reference Library
creatorOf	`Catalogue of the Collection of Economic Products of Plants' apparently by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-94), mycologist, on staff of India Museum from c1862.	British Library
referencedIn	Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)	Houghton Library
referencedIn	Farlow, W. G. (William Gilson), 1844-1919. Papers of William Gilson Farlow, 1866-1919 (bulk).	Harvard University, Botany Libraries
referencedIn	Copies of papers collected by Ray Desmond for writing his book on 'The India Museum 1801-1879' (London 1982), 1798-1979	British Library
referencedIn	Autograph File, C	Houghton Library
referencedIn	Denslow, William Wallace, 1826-1868. William Wallace Denslow botanical manuscripts collection, 1864-1868.	University of Massachusetts Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Library

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correspondedWith	Denslow, William Wallace, 1826-1868	person
associatedWith	Farlow, W. G. (William Gilson), 1844-1919.	person
correspondedWith	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882	person

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	East India House, London
	Ajanta, Hyderabad State

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Cooke, M.C. (Mordecai Cubitt), 1825-1914

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