Leaf Curl And Plum Pockets: Contribution To The Knowledge Of The Prunicolous Exoasceae Of The United States (1894)
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North American Mushrooms and Fungi, A Complete Guide (Illustrated)
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Studies And Illustrations Of Mushrooms, II: Three Edible Species Of Coprinus; Volume 168 Of Bulletin (Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station)
George Francis Atkinson
Cornell University, 1899
Cooking; Specific Ingredients; Vegetables; Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Vegetables; Coprinus; Mushrooms, Edible; Nature / Mushrooms
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Variety of conditions developed variety of forms. Plants no consciousness or choice in general sense. Inherent quality. Environment Sexual selection etc. Examples, cactus, yucca, cucurbits, oak. Process of organization and change of form a slow one.
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George Francis Atkinson was an American biologist, mycologist and professor of botany and zoology.
Background
George Atkinson was born on January 26, 1854 in Raisinville, Michigan, United States. He was the son of Joseph and Josephine Atkinson.
He remained in Rainsville with his sisters and his parents for only 13 years. Then he set out across the country to make his own way in reconstruction-era America. We know from his own accounts that he handled grain on a Mississippi river boat, and spent time in the Black Hills Territory of the Dakotas, driving a four-horse-team-drawn stagecoach during the gold rush of the 1870s. Though he had dreams of becoming a newspaper man, in his own words, he “…did everything as a boy and a man that he could get to do. ”
Education
Atkinson followed his sister's example and attended Olivet College (1878-1883) and Cornell University (1885). In the university he became a student of Cornell’s W. R. Dudley and A. N. Prentiss in botany, H. S. Williams in paleontology, and J. H. Comstock, Gage, and Wilder in animal life. He also studied English, French, and History. In 1885 he graduated from Cornell as a broadly-trained biologist with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree.
Career
After finishing his studies Atkinson became an assistant professor of entomology and zoology from 1885 to 1886, and associate professor in 1886 to 1888 at the University of North Carolina. He was a professor of botany and zoology at the University of South Carolina from 1888 to 1889 and a botanist at the Experiment Station of the University.
Beginning as a zoologist, he early turned his attention to parasitic animals, winning his scientific spurs with a study of the nematode so injurious to field crops, Heterodera radicicola. The animal parasites drew his interest to the parasitic plants, and he became a mycologist of the first rank. His early mycological work was a survey of the fungi of the high mountains of North Carolina; rapidly this broadened into an interest in the entire field of mycology, covering the physiology, economic importance, systematic classification, and theoretical relationships of the fungi.
From 1889 to 1892 he taught biology at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, Cornell University recruited Atkinson as Assistant Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, after Prof. William R. Dudley left Cornell for Stanford University. Within a year he was promoted to Associate Professor, and in 1896, Atkinson became Head of the Botany Department upon the death of Albert N. Prentiss.
He was especially interested in the evolution of the various families of fungi and the outline of their family trees, and, mindful of the law that embryology mirrors life stages of evolution, he gave more attention to the early life stages of the higher fungi than had any other American botanist. In his Studies of American Fungi (1900), Atkinson accomplished the first successful attempt to write a book on the higher fungi which would be at once thoroughly popular and irreproachably scientific.
His work in plant pathology was delegated to graduate assistants, and eventually to his student Herbert Hice Whetzel, who became first chair of the new department of Plant Pathology in 1907, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in the Spring of 1918.
In the summer of 1918, lured by the rich fungus flora of the rainy Northwest coast, he explored the slopes of Mount Rainier. As autumn drew on, his students and assistants returned to other duties, and alone, late in the season, Atkinson returned from a storm in the alpine regions in a condition of exhaustion, and was removed to a hospital at Tacoma, Washington, where influenza was followed by pneumonia. In his delirium he attempted to dictate his mycological observations to his nurse; he died quite alone, his friends unknowing that he was even ill. Students hastened to Tacoma when word of his death was received, and cared for his collections and valuable notes.
Achievements
Atkinson helped standardize the study and documentation of fungi at major collections in Europe and the United States, produced nearly 200 published works, and, as a Cornell Professor, founded a major lineage of outstanding North American mycologists. His award-winning photography was legendary and a key step in standardizing fungal taxonomy.
During his time at Cornell, Atkinson trained a succession of remarkable scientists, who went on to become leaders in their field (the "Dudley lineage" in M. Blackwell's Genealogy of Mycology). Among them, C. H. Kauffman, S. H. Burnham, Bertha Stoneman, C. Thom, F. A. Wolf, W. A. Murrill, Margaret C. Ferguson, Kiichi Miyake, Vera K. Charles, C. W. Edgerton, E. J. Durand, B. M. Duggar, H. H. Whetzel, D. Reddick, and H. M. Fitzpatrick. The last five men went on to become professors at Cornell University.
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1918), fellow member of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, member of the American Philosophical Society.
Personality
Professor Atkinson was a versatile man as well as industrious and very energetic.
Physical characteristics: his height was six feet tall, and he had large, strong, working hands.
Quotes from others about the person
Charles Thom, a student, about Atkinsons' work: "Atkinson himself was usually in the laboratory from 7:30 in the morning until 10 at night and was accessible to any worker with a question. "
Connections
Atkinson met Elizabeth “Lizzie” S. Kerr at the University of North Carolina. In 1887 they were married, and soon had two children, Francis Kerr and Clara Packard Atkinson.
Father:
Joseph Atkinson
Married Josephine on November 8, 1847 in Monroe, Michigan, United States.
Mother:
Josephine B Fish Atkinson
Spouse:
Elizabeth “Lizzie” S. Kerr
She was the daughter of the North Carolina State Geologist Washington C. Kerr.
Student:
Margaret Clay Ferguson
She was an American botanist best known for advancing scientific education in the field of botany and contribution on the life histories of North American pines.
Student:
Charles Thom
He was an American microbiologist and mycologist.
Student:
Bertha Stoneman
She was an American-born South African botanist, president of Huguenot College from 1921 to 1933, and founder of the South African Association of University Women.
Student:
Stewart Henry Burnham
He was an Assistant Curator of the Wiegand Herbarium from 1922-ca. 1942. He was an extraordinarily thorough natural history collector and record-keeper who specialized in vascular plants, cryptogams, and ornithology.
Student:
Benjamin Minge Duggar
He was an American plant physiologist.
Student:
Vera Katherine Charles
She was an American mycologist and one of the first women to be appointed to professional positions within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Student:
Claude Wilbur Edgerton
He was an American mycologist.
Student:
Calvin Henry Kauffman
He was an American botanist and mycologist.
Student:
Harry Morton Fitzpatrick
He was an American mycologist and professor of mycology at Cornell. His book on the Lower Fungi was the standard text and reference work on the Phycomycetes.
Student:
William Alphonso Murrill
He was an American mycologist, known for his contributions to the knowledge of the Agaricales and Polyporaceae.
Student:
Elias Judah Durand
He was an American mycologist, botanist and one of the foremost American experts on the discomycetes.
Student:
Kiichi Miyake
He was a Japanese botanist and professor at the University of Tokyo. His research focus was bryology and pteridology. His undergraduate studies were at Doshisha University and the University of Tokyo. His graduated studies were at Cornell University, where he received his MA in 1901 and PhD in 1902.
Student:
Herbert Hice Whetzel
He was an American mycologist.
Brother:
Paul Joseph Atkinson
Brother:
Charles Hughes Atkinson
He was born in Raisinville and in 1877 married Miss Katie King of the same place. After a few years of farm life he moved to Toledo, where he purchased a home which he occupied at the time of his death. Charles died after a boiler had exploded while he was working. He was well and favorably known in Toledo, especially on the east side, bore an excellent reputation as a business man and made friends of all who knew him.
Sister:
Anna Eliza Atkinson Rood
Graduated from Olivet College in 1886. Marriaged Frank Edward Rood in 1889.
Sister:
Clara Orelana Atkinson Monroe
She graduated from Olivet College in 1881 (age 31), and began teaching in the village of Covert, Michigan. In her 1991 “Memoirs of an Old Lady in a Hurry”, Clara’s niece Genevieve Rood Bentley describes Clara as “a vivacious redhead.”
