Elsie Maud Wakefield     (1886 - 1972)




Image of Elsie Maud Wakefield from Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes
Elsie Maud Wakefield

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Biography
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Selected publications

Biography

attends Smerville College, Oxford

studies at the Forstbotanisches Institute in Munich, Germany

1910     appointed mycologist at the Kew Botanical Gardens

1920     collecting expedition to the Caribbean, with visits to the US and Canada

1921     head mycologist at Kew Botanical Gardens

Wakefield was an expert on the "resupinate Thelephoraceae", which I assume means the crusty things on wood that we've now split into so many different families.

Dörfelt & Heklau say that her trip to the Caribbean involved an official appointment at the Imperial Department of Agriculture in Barbados; Lloyd says it was just a travel grant.
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Sources

Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
      (Die Geschichte der Mykologie)



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Selected Publications

A. D. Cotton & Elsie Maud Wakefield (1918) "A review of the British Clavariae" in Transactions of the British Mycological Society 6 pp. 164 - 198

Elsie Maud Wakefield (1927) "The genus Cystopus in South Africa" in Bothalia 2 pp. 242 - 246

Elsie Maud Wakefield (1930) "Australian resupinate Hydnaceae" in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Australia 54 pp. 155 - 158
Key to the genera Acia, Grandinia and Odontia


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