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Derek Agutter Reid (2 September 1927 – 18 January 2006)[1][2] was an English mycologist.

Derek Agutter Reid
Born(1927-09-02)2 September 1927
Died18 January 2006(2006-01-18) (aged 78)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
  • University College, Hull
Known for
  • Contributions to taxonomic mycology
  • Study of Aphyllophorales
Spouses
  • Pamela Saich (1953-?)
  • Sheila Glover (1987-2006)
ChildrenDavid G. Reid
Scientific career
FieldsMycology
Institutions
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • University of Pretoria
Author abbrev. (botany)D.A.Reid

Background and education


Reid was born in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, the son of a picture-framer. He was educated at Cedars School and the University of Hull, where he studied geology and botany. He gained his PhD from the University of London in 1964, for a thesis (later published) on stipitate stereoid fungi.


Mycological career and travels


In 1951, he became assistant to Dr R.W.G. Dennis, head of mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. On his retirement in 1975, Derek Reid took over his position and remained at Kew till his own retirement in 1987.

Derek Reid was a naturalist and enthusiastic field mycologist, leading regular fungus forays in his native Bedfordshire for over 40 years, as well as tutoring fungus identification courses at Field Studies Centres, and evening classes at the University of London. He published the popular field guide to British fungi; Mushrooms and Toadstools: A Kingfisher Guide, in 1980.[3] He was also able to travel far more widely than his predecessors at Kew, visiting and collecting fungi in continental Europe, the United States, the West Indies, Australia, and South Africa. His particular interest in South African fungi led to several joint papers with his fellow mycologist Prof. Albert Eicker at the University of Pretoria. In 1989, after his retirement from Kew, Reid stayed for some while in Pretoria, as Visiting Professor at the university.[4]

Derek Reid's main interest was in the taxonomy of fungi, especially (but not exclusively) the Basidiomycota. He published over 200 papers on British and overseas species, mostly on agarics but also on heterobasidiomycetes, gasteromycetes, and other macrofungi, describing many new species. Several fungal species have been named after him, including Volvariella reidii, Peniophora reidii, and the common European Waxcap Hygrocybe reidii.[5]

Reid was a talented artist, and illustrated his own papers. Many of his paintings of rare fungi were published in his series "Coloured Icones of Rare and Interesting Fungi"[6] in the Nova Hedwigia journal. He also created paintings depicting several type specimens and other fungi in the Kew Herbarium, which are now preserved in collections at Kew.[1]


Selected publications


The standard author abbreviation D.A. Reid is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

See also



References


  1. "Dr Derek Reid Obituary". The Telegraph. 28 January 2006. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  2. Marren, Peter. "Derek Reid Obituary". The Independent. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  3. Reid, Derek (1980). Mushrooms and Toadstools: A Kingfisher Guide. UK: Kingfisher. ISBN 9780862721367.
  4. Obituary: Dr Derek Reid. The Daily Telegraph 28 January 2006 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1508984/Dr-Derek-Reid.html
  5. Kibby, Geoffrey; Ainsworth, Martyn (2008). "A tribute to Derek Reid: British Fungi named after him". Field Mycology. 9 (2): 51–54. doi:10.1016/S1468-1641(10)60408-2.
  6. Reid, Derek (1966). Coloured icones of rare and interesting fungi. Nova Hedwigia. J. Cramer. ASIN B0007JIYAM.
  7. International Plant Names Index.  D.A. Reid.

На других языках


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[ru] Рид, Дерек

Дерек Эгаттер Рид (англ. Derek Agutter Reid; 1927—2006) — английский миколог, один из самых влиятельных микологов XX века.



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