Members call themselves amateur mycologists - those who study mushrooms and other fungi.

"Scientists who spend their lives studying fungi or butterflies are finding that there's a new urgency to their work," he said.

Bose studied edible fungi in India and advised its cultivation widely.

Petch had an early interest in natural history, but Charles Plowright, a doctor and mycologist in King's Lynn, encouraged him to study fungi.

The tomb was closed so experts could study bacteria and fungi first isolated in the burial chamber in 1988.

She studied fungi as a hobby in her childhood.

Gil had many close friends who studied fungi, and after graduation he traveled throughout the country with his major professor Josiah Lowe.

His father, Aurélio Quintanilha, was Portuguese, from the Azores islands, and one of the first scientists to study fungi.

He studied fungi and cryptogams in South Carolina, discovering a large number of new species.

Most mycologists (scientists who study fungi) separate the kingdom into the following divisions.