daugher -> Ivy Massee (fl.1911), trained as mycologist, who illustr. his British Fungee, and other works
1850 in Scampston, Yorkshire
1917
Sevenoaks, Kent
farmer
Richard Spruce (1817-1893) ;
York School of Arts and Downing College, Cambridge ;
United Kingdom
The Intellectual Observer 11 (1867) ; G.M.: British Fungee, London 1911 (w. 40 chromolith. pl. by Ivy Massee, probably his wife or daughter); (G.M. w. Ivy Massee): Mildews, rusts, and smuts (London 1913); mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914)
Richard Spruce & M.C. Cooke; Natural History Museum, London; curator (principal assistant) at Royal Gardens Kew 1893-1915 as successor of Cooke;
John Ramsbottom (1885-1974) ; Arthur Disbrowe Cotton (1879-1962) as his assistant ; Mordecai Cubitt Cooke ; assistant of botanist Richard Spruce (1817-1893) during an expedition to Ecuador & Panama; later assistants of G.M. were Arthur Disbrowe Cotton (1879–1962) and since 1910 Elsie Wakefield (1886-1972) who became his successor in Kew in 1916; G.M.'s later works were illustrated by -> Ivy Massee
botanical, mycological, and zoological drawing, watercolour, and painting ;
British Museum Natural History ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edward_Massee ;
Henry Crowther: Prominent Yorkshire Workers VI - G.M., F.L.S., V.M.H., The naturalist 38 (1913): 291–293; obituaries by John Ramsbottom in: Transactions of the British Mycological Society 5, 1917, S. 469–473 and in the Journal of Botany 1917; G. C. Ainsworth: Brief biographies of British mycologists. Stourbridge: British Mycological Society 1996; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Sawyer 1971: 158; Mary P. English Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Victorian Naturalist, Mycologist, Teacher & Eccentric (Bristol 1987); Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau: Die Geschichte der Mykologie, 1998;
G.M. also was co-founder and first president of the British Mycological Society in 1896, president of the Quekett Microscopical Club from 1899-1903, and he was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour in 1902.; Further Places of Activity: Panama and Ecuador. cf. also http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/greatlakesdata/Authors/Massee1027.html
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