ALEXANDER JOSEPH DESIREE BIVORT

Belgian nurseryman & member of a number of horticultural
societies in Belgium & France. He actively promoted the
culture of pears in Belgium. His is best known for his
published series, “Album de Pomologie” whose aim was to
promote the cultivation of fruit.

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MUSHROOM M.C.COOKE

Cooke, an eminent mycologist, was the founder of the journal 'Grevillea' and was one of the great promotors of mycology in England. 'Cookes's most ambitious work, the "Illustrations of British Fungi", is a monumental work of labor and patient application. I am told that not only did he make the original drawings of the plants, but that the figures were actually transferred by Cooke to the stones from which they were printed'(C.G. Lloyd, Letter no. 57). The number published of the 'Illustrations of British Fungi' must have been very small as there were only 70 subscribers in Britain when volume 2 was issued. "The plates are numbered in the order in which they were published; they were assigned new numbers in the systematical indexes accompanying the volumes. The new numbers are given to provide a systematic arrangement" (Stafleu & Cowan). Nissen BBI

Cooke, an eminent mycologist, was the founder of the journal 'Grevillea' and one of the great promotors of mycology in England. 'Cookes's most ambitious work, the "Illustrations of British Fungi", from which these prints are from, is a monumental work of labor and patient application. Not only did he make the original drawings of the plants, but that the figures were actually transferred by Cooke to the stones from which they were printed'(C.G. Lloyd, Letter no. 57). The number published of the 'Illustrations of British Fungi' must have been very small as there were only 70 subscribers in Britain when volume 2 was issued. Rare