> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 511](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266188) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/17588-1) LSID 17588-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18559734) QID Q18559734 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Currey, Frederick|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Currey, Frederick (1819-1881), British botanist (mycologist), born at Norwood, Surrey, educated at Eton and the Trintity College at Cambridge, B.A. Cambridge 1841, published from 1854 on mycology, F.L.S. 1856, F.R.S. 1858, secretary of the Linnean Society ca. 1860 until 1880, died at Blackheath. **Abbreviated name**: *Curr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Curr.*\] #### Herbarium and types Fungi at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 405; BB p. 80 (b. Norwood); BL 2: 247, 644; BM 1: 407; CSP 2: 108, 7: 472, 9: 619, 12: 179; Desmond p. 166; De Toni 1: xxviii; DNB 13: 311; IF p. 692; IH 2: 147; Jackson p. 254; Kew 1: 660-661; LS 6434-6456; MW p. 88; NAF 1(1): 157; PR p. 73; Rehder 1: 292, 400; Stevenson p. 1239; TL-2/1: 573. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 28(Bibl.): 191. 1881 (brief note of death); Gard. Chron. ser. 2. 16: 412. 1881 (d.); Bot. Gaz. 6(1): 288. Nov 1881 (d., 20 years secretary of the Linnean Society); Bot. Not. 1882: 29 (d.); Proc. Linn. Soc. 1881: 59-60. 1883; 1888/90: 34-35. 1891; Sterbeeckia, Antwerpen 3(4): 13. 1964 (brief note on work). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. nos. 255.175, 263.2, 269.76. 1988. - Högrell, B., Botanikens historia 1: 258. 1886. - Jackson, B.D., J. Bot. (Trimen) ser. 2. 10: 310-312. 1881. - Palmer, J.T., Nova Hedwigia 15: 143. 1968. #### Composite works - (1) English translation of H. Schacht, *Microscope and its application* to vegetable anatomy and physiology 1855 (2nd. ed.). - (2) Editor of The Natural History Review ser. 2, 1-5, 1861-1865. - (3) English translation by Frederick Currey of W.F.B. Hofmeister: *On the germination*, development and fructification of the *higher cryptogamia*, London 1862, see TL-2/2: 250-251. - (4) Charles David Badham, *Treat. escul. fung. England* ed. 2, 1863, see TL-2/231, edited by Frederick Currey... London 1863. - (5) Friedrich Welwitsch and Frederick Currey, *Fungi Angolenses*, 1868, see TL-2/17.113. ### Publications ##### n.28.467. reproductive organs **Title** On the *reproductive organs* of certain *fungi*... Journal microscopic Science... 1855. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1855, p. 263-273, \[326 expl. plate\], *pl. 12*, *in* J. Microsc. Sci. 3: 263-273, \[326\], *pl. 12*. *Copy*: B (tearsheet). ##### n.28.468. Synopsis **Title** *Synopsis* of the *fructification* of the *compound Sphaeriae* of the Hookerian Herbarium ... \[London\] (Trans. Linn. Soc.) 1858. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 4 Nov-24 Dec 1858 (fide S. Raphael, Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 2: 75. 1970; read 4 Mar 1858), p. 257-287, *pl. 45-49* (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: BKL. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc. London 22(3): 257-287, *pl. 45-49*. 1858. ##### n.28.469. Synopsis **Title** *Synopsis* of the *fructification* of the *simple Sphaeriae* of the Hookerian Herbarium ... \[London\] (Trans. Linn. Soc.) 1859. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 12 Nov 1859 (fide S. Raphael, Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 2: 75. 1970; read 5 Mai 1859), p. \[313\]-335, *pl. 57-59* (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: BKL. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc. London 22(4): 313-335, *pl. 57-59*. 1859. *Ref*.: Fries, E., Bot. Zeit. 22: 189-190. 21 Jun 1864. ##### n.28.470. observations on the Sphaeriae **Title** Supplementary *observations on the Sphaeriae* of the Hookerian Herbarium... \[Extracted from the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London\]... 1865. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 30 Nov 1865 (fide S. Raphael, Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 2: 76. 1970; read 15 Jun 1865), p. 239-262. *Copies*: B, BKL. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc. London 25(2): 239-262. 1865. ##### n.28.471. collection of fungi **Title** On a *collection of fungi* made *by* Mr *Sulpiz Kurz*,... Extracted from the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London... \[1876\]. Qu. *Collector*: Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834-1878), see IH 2: 397-398. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1876 (in journal, read 4 Jun 1874 (sic)), p. \[119\]-131, *pl. 19-21*. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc. London ser. 2. Bot. 1(3): 119-131, *pl. 19-21*. 1876.