Job Bicknell Ellis papers 1857-1903.

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Job Bicknell Ellis papers 1857-1903.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42358819

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

4 boxes (1.7 linear ft.)

New York Botanical Garden, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7448820

New York Botanical Garden, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library

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

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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 ...