Job Bicknell Ellis papers, 1857-1903.

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Job Bicknell Ellis papers, 1857-1903.

Collection documents Ellis's communications with the international mycology community of his era and his classifications of species.

4 boxes 1.7 linear ft.)

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Ellis, Job Bicknell, 1829-1905

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Job Bicknell Ellis (1829-1905) was an American mycologist best known for his work as a collector and classifier of fungal specimens. Ellis was born in Potsdam, New York and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1849. Influenced by the American mycologist Henry Ravenel, Ellis dedicated his life to the collection and exchange of dried specimens, or "exsiccati," creating reference collections sold in sets of one hundred. These "centuries" of fungi were published as Fungi Nova-Caesareenses ...

Everhart, B.M. (Benjamin Matlack), 1818-1904

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