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Last Name Cooke

Given Name Mordecai Cubitt

alt. Names M. C. C. ;

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Year born 1825 in Horning, Norfolk

Year died 1914

Place of death Southsea, Hampshire

Father's occupation merchant

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Education apprentice to fabric merchant, law clerk; honorary Master of Arts from St Lawrence 1870 & Yale University 1873; New York 1874

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for M. C. Cooke: Mycographia seu Icones fungorum (1875) ; Illustrations of British Fungi (1881-1891) ; Rust smut mildew mould (1898) ; Charles B. Plowright: British Hypomyces ;

Patronage founder of Society of Amateur Botanists in 1862; Holy Treinity National School Lambeth, curator India Museum India Office& Royal Botanic Gardens Kew ;

Collaborators Edward Step (1855-1931) ; J. E. Sowerby ; Ruffle ; R. Hardwicke ;

Techniques botanical and mycological drawing and watercolour ;

Sample(s) http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=1447&mobile=0 ;

Archival sources British Museum Natural History ,

Published sources Ox. Dict. Nat. Bio. 2009 ; Sawyer 1971: 116 ; Daniels 1974: 16f. ; Mary P. English: M. C.C. Victorian naturalist 1987 ;

other Editor of: Hardwicke's Science Gossip 1865-93 & Grevillea 1872-94; founding member of Quekett's Microscopical Club, MCC: Early Memories of QMC, J of QMC(1899):229-39.

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