> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 327](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266004) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1783-1) LSID 1783-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2351239) QID Q2351239 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt (1825-1914), British botanist and teacher, first education with a dame's school until 1834, to IIford with his nonconformist minister 1834-1838, at Norfolk and some time at Neatishead 1838-1845, in London 1845-1850 copying clerk in a solicitor's office, master of Trinity School Lambeth 1850-1860, at the Indian Museum, London 1861/2-1880, at Kew 1880-1892. **Abbreviated name**: *Cooke* \[standard form in IPNI: *Cooke*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]. *Exsiccatae*: *Fungi britannici exs*., see TL-2/1: no. 1198. [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]]([[Collection FH|FH]]), [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PAD|PAD]], [[Collection PAV|PAV]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. – Drawings and mss. at Huddersfield Museum. Letters at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 341; Barnhart 1: 376 (b. 12 Jul 1825, Horning, Norfolk, England, d. 12 Nov 1914, Southsea); BB p. 72; BM 1: 378-379, 6: 230;CSP 2: 40, 7: 425, 9: 564, 12: 166, 14: 338; Desmond p. 146-147 (q.v.: herb. 44.000, 22.000 draw., 300 articles); De Toni 1: xxv-xxvi; Frank 3(Anh): 19; GR p. 369; GR cat. p. 61; HR; IH 2: 137; Jackson p. 534 (index); Kew 1: 609-610; LS 5555-5848, 32.320-32.359; Morren ed. 10, p. 70; MW p. 83; NI 393-398,394 n; Nordstedt p. 11; Plesch p. 182; PR 1854-1859; Stevenson p. 1239; TL-2/1: 536-543; Urban-Berl. p. 274. #### Biofile - A.D.C., Nature 94: 315-316.1914; Kew Bull. 1914(10): 392-393.13 Dec 1914(d.). - Allen, D.E., The botanists 72. 1986. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 38(36): 623. 3 Sep 1880 (at Kew); Flora 64(1): 16. 1 Jan 1881 (C. became cryptogamist at Kew Gardens); Grevillea 14(72): 131. Jun 1886 (herb. of fungi acquired by K), 17(84): 94. Jun 1889 (fungi transferred to Kew (46.000 specimens)); J. Mycol 2: opp. 105. 1905 (portr.); J. Bot. 50: 296 (notice of death), 384. 1912 (premature announcement of death on p. 296, shared the fate of Mark Twain); Kew Bull. 1912(8): 369. 25 Oct 1912 (premature obit. notice), (9): 393. 15 Dec 1912; Bot. Centralbl. 126(49): 640. 8 Dec 1914 (death of C. on 12 Nov 1914); Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 56: 345-346. 1914(biogr., portr.); Nuova Notarisia 30: 131-132. 1915. - Barnhart, J.H., NAF 9(6): 432. 1916, 11(1): 88. 1937,7(15): 1056. 1940. - Blackwell, E.M., The Naturalist 877: 59. 1961 (photograph, at Selby 1896). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 393. 1980 (229.255, 229.464, 248.12, 263.2, 269.109, 269.110, 229.462). - Cotton, A.D., J. Kew Guild 3: 243. 1915 (portr.). - Cunnigham, G.H., The Gasteromycetes of Australia and New Zealand, in bibliography 1944. - Daniels, G.S., Artists Roy. Bot. Gard. Kew. 16-17. 1974 (portr.). - English, Mary P., Microscopy 33(6): 329-338. 1978; Arch. nat. Hist. 13(1): 31-32. 1986; Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. Victorian naturalist. Mycologist. Teacher and Eccentric. 1987, ISBN 0-948736-02-6. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 1495-1900, Folkestone 1980, no. 778. - Güssow, H.J., Phytopathology 6: 1-4. 1916 (portr.). - Hanlin, R.T., Index Grevillea 150-154. 1898. - Harshberger, J.W.G., Bot. Philadelphia 442 \[index\]. 1899. - Hesler, L.R., Biogr. sketches N. Amer. mycol. 1975, mss. 3 p. - Karg, A.L., Hunt Institute, Taxon 23(4): 614. 5 Sep 1974 (biogr. sketches at Hunt). - Lloyd, E.G., Letter no. 57: 1-4. 1915 (portr., bibl.). - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 95. 1973. - Murray, G., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 141. 1904. - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 100. 1966. - Norton, J., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25: 785. 1900 (president's address on C.). - Ramsbottom, J., J. Bot. 53: 58-66. 1915 (obit., biogr., portr.); Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 5: 169-185. 1915 (portr.), 30: 1, 2. 1948; Sterbeeckia 4: 12-13. 1964. - Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 23: 754. 1974 (portr.). - Stapf, O., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1914/15: 23-24. 1915. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 90-91. 1903, 3(3): 76. 1905 (portr.). ### Publications ##### n.27.356. manual of botanic terms **Title** A *manual of botanic terms*... London (Robert Hardwicke,...) \[1862\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Man. bot. terms.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1862 (preface signed Feb 1862 on p. iv), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-90, *27 pl*. (hand-numbered). *Copy*: MO. *Ed. 2*: 1873, p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-118, \[i\*-ii\*\], *35 pl. Copy*: BM. *Ed. 3*: 1875 (n.v.). ##### n.27.357. British Hepaticae **Title** Hardwicke's Science Gossip easy guide to the study of *British Hepaticae*: or, scale-mosses, liverworts, and crystalworts. With figures and descriptions of every species... London (Robert Hardwicke,...) \[1865\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Brit. Hepat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1865, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-27, \[28\] (in one binding). *Copy*: G. ##### n.27.358. Notes **Title** *Notes* on *Podisoma*... Reprinted from Journal of Queckett Microscopical Club... \[1871\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1871 (read 24 Nov 1871), p. \[1\]-14, *pl. 18-19* (col. liths.). *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Queckett Microsc. Club 2: 255-268, *pl. 18-19.* 1871. ##### n.27.359. Freaks **Title** *Freaks* and *marvels* of *plant life*; or, curiosities of Vegetation... London 1872. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Freaks pl. life.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1872, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-463. – Fide Freeman no. 788. *Later ed*.: 1881, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-463., London and New York. *Copies*: BM, HH. ##### n.27.360. Report **Title** *Report* by Dr. M.C. Cooke *on* the *Gums, Resins*, Olea-Resins, and resinous products in the Indian Museum or produced in India... London (India Museum) 1874. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Rep. Gums Resins.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1874 (Bot. Zeit. 12 Feb 1875), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-152, *pl. 1-4. Copies*: BM, HH, MO. – See also Rehder 1: 55. *Ref*.: J.R.J., J. Bot. 13: 54-55. 13 Feb 1875 (rev.). ##### n.27.361. Discomycetes of the Edinburgh **Title** Notes on the *Discomycetes of the Edinburgh* University *Herbarium* at the Royal Botanic Garden... \[Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, 1875\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1875, p. \[271\]-286. *Copies*: B, L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 12: 271-286. 1875. ##### n.27.362. Hyphomycetous Fungi **Title** The *Hyphomycetous Fungi* of the *United States*... \[Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of natural sciences 1877\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1877 (in journal), p. 189-202. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 3: 189-202. 1877. ##### n.27.363. New Jersey Fungi **Title** *New Jersey Fungi*... Grevillea... 1876-\[1880\]. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*. John Bicknell Ellis (1829-1905), see TL-2/1: 742-743. *Publ*. \[*1*\]: 1876, \[some\] New Jersey fungi *in* Grevillea 4(32): 178-180. Jun 1876. – No reprint seen. \[*2*\]: 1876, Id. 5(33): 30-35. Sep 1876. – No reprint seen. \[*3*\]: Dec 1876 (in journal), p. \[49\]-55, *pl. 80-81* (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Grevillea 5(34): 49-55, *pl. 80-81.* 1876. \[*4*\]: Mar 1877 (in journal), p. \[1\]-7. *Copies*: NY(3). – Id. 5(35): 89-95. 1877. \[*5*\]: Sep 1877, p. \[1\]-18, *pl. 95-96* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: NY(3). – Id. 6(35): l-18, *pl. 95-96.* 1877. \[*6*\]: Mar 1878 (in journal), p. \[1\]-16, *pl. 99-100* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: NY(3). – Id. 6(39): 81-96, *pl. 99-100.* 1878. \[*7*\]: Sep 1878 (in journal), p. \[1\]-7. *Copies*: NY(2). – Id. 7(41): 4-10. 1878. \[*8*\]: Dec 1878 (in journal), p. \[1\]-6. *Copies*: NY(3). – Id. 7(42): 37-42. 1878. \[*9*\]: Sep 1879 (in journal), p. \[1\]-6. *Copies*: NY(2). – Id. 8(45): 11-16. 1879. \[*10*\]: *in* Grevillea 9(51): 103. Mar 1881. – No reprint seen. ##### n.27.364. fungi of Texas **Title** The *fungi of Texas*... From the Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences... 1878. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1878 (read 27 Mai 1878), p. \[177\]-187. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1(6): 177-187. 1878. *Note*: Brief version in J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 17(99): 141-144. 5 Nov 1878 (read 4 Apr 1878). *Copies*: L, NY. ##### n.27.365. Pezizae at Inverleith House **Title** *Pezizae at Inverleith House*... \[Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh... 1879\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879 (read 14 Jun 1877, but published only 1879; Bot. Zeit. 25 Jun 1880), p. \[1\]-3, *pl*. *3* (col. lith. auet.). *Copies*: B, L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 13: 44-46, *pl. 3.* 1879. ##### n.27.366. Fungi australiani **Title** *Fungi australiani*, imprimis e collectionibus a reverendo J.M. Berkeley pervisis, Doctore M.C. Cooke, enumerati, additis circiter centum speciebus e collectione Baileyana a C.E. Broome examinatis, et insertis circiter triginta aliis a Friesio e collectione Preissii divulgatis... \[in:\] Supplementum ad volumen undeeimum Fragmentorum Phytographiae Australiae... 1880. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1880, p. \[75\]-104. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted from Fragm. Phytogr. Austral. 11 (Supplementum) 1880: 75-104. – see TL-2/3: no. 6397. ##### n.27.367. On some Desmids new to Britain in 1880 **Title** On some Desmids new to Britain in 1880... Reprinted from The Journal of the Queckett Microscopical Club... 1881. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1881 (date on p. \[1\]), p. \[1\]-9. *pl. 13-16* (col. liths.). *Copies*: B, G. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Queckett Microsc. Club 6: 203-211, *pl. 13-16.* 1881. *Ref*.: N.L., Bot. Zeit. 39: 866. 30 Dec 1881 (rev.). ##### n.27.368. coffee disease in South America **Title** The *coffee disease in South America*... \[London 1881\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 3 Jun 1881 (in journal, read 3 Feb 1881), p. 461-467, *pl. 18* (uncol. draw.). *Copy*: HH (fide Tucker 1: 169). — Reprinted and to be cited from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18(112): 461 -467, *pl. 18.* 1881. ##### n.27.369. Fungi australiani **Title** *Fungi australiani*... (Impr. "Grevillea", t. x, xi)... Melbourne 1883. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1883, p. \[i\], \[1\]-72, *pl. 1-4* (col. draw.). *Copies*: BKL(2), L. – Consolidated text taken from Grevillea 9: 142-149. Jun 1881, 10: 60-64. Dec 1881, 93-104. Mar 1882, 131-136. Jun 1882, 11: 28-34. Sep 1882, 57-65. Dec 1882, 97-104. Mar 1883, 145-150. Jun 1883, 12: 8-21. Sep 1883. – On top of t.p.: "*Supplementum ad fragmentorum phytographiae* *Australiae* pro auctoritate Baron Ferdinandus de Mueller, K.C.M.G." – See TL-2/3: no. 6397 and above (1880). *Note*: The cover-t.p. of this publication is misleading. In the first place it cites Grevillea t. x. and xi, whereas the reprint is taken from t. ix-xii. In the second place is the title "Fungi australiani" not the same as that of Grevillea which reads "Australian fungi". The text for the enumerated species is also different from that in the publication of 1880. ##### n.27.370. structure **Title** The *structure* and affinity of *Sphaeria pocula* Schweinitz... Extracted from the Linnean Society's Journal Botany 1884. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 28 Apr 1884 (in journal, read 17 Jan 1884), p. \[508\]-511, *pl. 47* (uncol. lith. auct.). *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 20(131): 508-511. 1884. ##### n.27.371. Palmodactylon subramosum **Title** Notes on *Palmodactylon subramosum*, and on a new British species of Vaucheria... Reprinted from The Journal of the Queckett Microscopical Club... 1886. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1886 (date on p. \[1\]), *pl. 14* (uncol. lith.), p. \[1\]-2. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Queckett Microsc. Club ser. 2. 2: 219-220, *pl. 14.* 1886. ##### n.27.372. Mutinus bambusinus **Title** *Mutinus bambusinus*, in Britain... Reprinted from Grevillea... \[1888\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1888 (in journal), p. \[1\], *pl. 173. Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Grevillea 17(81): 17, *pl. 173.* 1888. ##### n.27.373. Vegetable wasps **Title** *Vegetable wasps* and plant worms. A popular history of *entomogenous fungi*, or fungi parasitic upon insects... London (Society for promoting Christian Knowledge,...) New York (E. & J.B. Young and Co.) 1892. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Veg. wasps, entom. fungi.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1892 (Nat. Nov. Nov (2) 1892), p. \[i\]-v, \[1\]-364. *Copy*: MO. *Ref*.: Anon., J. Bot. 30: 382. Dec 1892 (rev.). ##### n.27.374. Romance of low life **Title** *Romance of low life* amongst plants. Facts and phenomena of cryptogamic Vegetation ... London (Society for promoting Christian Knowledge...) New York (E. & J.B. Young and Co.) 1893. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Romance low life*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1893 (Bot. Zeit. 16 Jan 1894), p. \[i\]-vii, \[1\]-320, adv. \[1\]-4. *Copy*: MO. *Ref*.: G.M., J. Bot. 31: 379-380. Dec 1893 (rev.). ##### n.27.375. Pestiferous fungi **Title** *Pestiferous fungi* by M.C. Cooke... and Peculiarities of the Queensland flora,... Brisbane (by authority: Edmund Gregory,...) 1895. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pestiferous fungi*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Frederick Manson Bailey (1827-1915), see TL-2/suppl. 1: 257-263. *Publ*.: Oct 1895 (date on t.p., read Jan 1895), by Cooke: \[1\]-10, by F. M. Bailey \[11\]-26. *Copies*: G, L. – Issued as Queensland Department of Agriculture, Brisbane, Bot. Bull. no. XII. 1895. ##### n.27.376. Edible and poisonous mushrooms **Title** *Edible and poisonous mushrooms*: what to eat and what to avoid... London (Society for promoting Christian Knowledge,...) New York (E. & J.B. Young & Co.) 1902. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Edible pois. mushr*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1902, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-126, \[\[1\]-16 adv.\], *pl. 1-18.* (col. draw.). *Copies*: BKL, L. *Original publication*: 1894 \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-126, *pl. 1-18* (id.). (n.v.). (Bot. Zeit. 1 Feb 1895). *Ref*.: Möbius, M.A.J., Bot. Centralbl. 65(4): 110. 29 Jan 1896 (rev.). ##### n.27.377. Fungoid pests **Title** *Fungoid pests* of *cultivated plants*... London (... Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd....) \[1902\]-1906. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: \[1902\]-1906, p. \[i\], \[iii\], \[v\]-xv, \[1\]-278, *pl. 1-24* (col. liths.). *Copies*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 27(1): 1-45, *pl. 1-3.* Sep, (2-3): 269-406, *pl. 4-6.* Dec 1902, (4): 801-831, *pl. 7-9.* Apr 1903; 28(1-2): 1-44, *pl. 10-12*, Oct 1903, (3-4). 313-337, *pl. 13 -15.* Mai 1904; 29(1-3): 1-25, *pl. 16-18.* Dec 1904, (4): 361-391, *pl. 19-21.* Dec 1905. The last part (p. 229-255, *pl. 22-24*) with title "Pests of Field Crops" not found in the periodical. General index is p. \[257\]-278.