Elizabeth Eaton Morse(31 December 1864 – 13 November 1955) was an Americanmycologist.Born inFramingham, Massachusetts,she graduated fromAshland, Massachusetts, High Schoolin 1882. For seven years she taught in elementary school before enteringWellesley College,from which she graduated with adiplomafrom the School of Art in 1891. After twenty years of teaching in theNew York CityschoolsMorris High SchoolandRoosevelt High School,she returned to Wellesley College in 1924 and earned a degree inBotanyin 1926. Shortly after, she registered as a part-time graduate student in the Department of Botany at theUniversity of California,and was given storage and work space to pursue her interests incryptogamicbotany.[1]
Although she did not work towards an advanced degree, Morse maintained this space for her studies for more than twenty years. During this time, she organized the California Mycological Society as a means to promote the collection and exchange of mycological specimens. She often spent summers on collecting trips throughout North America, and between trips identified, catalogued and distributed her collections. Although primarily interested in macroscopic fungi, she also collected some flowering plants, slime molds, lichens, and mosses. The bulk of her collections now resides at either theUniversity Herbariumat theUniversity of California at Berkeley,or in the U.S. National Fungus Collections atBeltsville, Maryland.[1]Morse died 13 November 1955 in Berkeley, California.[2]
Fungal taxa named by Morse includeAlbatrellus flettii,Calbovista,Cantharellus bonarii,Cantharellus wilkinsiae,andTricholoma sclerotoideum.
Publications
edit- Morse, E.E. (1930)."A new chanterelle in California".Mycologia.22(5): 219–220.doi:10.1080/00275514.1930.12017003.
- Morse, E.E. (1933)."A study of the genusPodaxis".Mycologia.25(1): 1–33.doi:10.1080/00275514.1933.12020646.JSTOR3754126.
- Morse, E.E. (1935)."A new puffball".Mycologia.27(2): 96–101.doi:10.1080/00275514.1935.12017065.
- Morse, E.E. (1943)."Study of a newTricholoma".Mycologia.35(5): 573–581.doi:10.1080/00275514.1943.12017515.
- Morse, E.E. (1945)."Some western Discomycetes,Gyromitra esculenta,Helvella lacunosa".Mycologia.37(4): 414–424.doi:10.2307/3754628.JSTOR3754628.
- Smith, A.H.; Morse, E.E. (1947)."The genusCantharellusin the western United States ".Mycologia.39(5): 497–534.doi:10.1080/00275514.1947.12017631.PMID20264537.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^abBonar, Lee (1956)."Elizabeth Eaton Morse".Mycologia.48(3): 439–441.doi:10.1080/00275514.1956.12024552.
- ^Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey;Harvey, Joy Dorothy(2000).The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z.Taylor & Francis. p. 917.ISBN978-0-415-92040-7.
- ^International Plant Names Index.Morse.