Fungi
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of nearly 2,000 fungi specimens. These date from the 19th century to the present. This collection contains the familiar mushrooms and toadstools but also other forms such as brackets, clubs, smuts and rusts. They are mainly in the form of dried material, though the collection does include some freeze-dried specimens and microscopic slides. The majority of specimens are from the British and Irish Isles, and most of these from Scotland. The collection of Glasgow University (GL) contains 780 specimens the majority being smaller types (microfungi) such as rusts and smuts. Key collectors were R B Johnstone and D A Boyd, mainly from the early 20th century. The Strathclyde University collection (GGO) holds about 230 specimens with main collectors being Prof R Hennedy and Rev R Barr. The museum’s civic collection (GLAM) has about 700 specimens mostly of larger fungi (macrofungi) and of recent and local Scottish origins. Slime moulds (Mycetozoa), although not part of the fungal kingdom, are also included here and consist of several donations from the Listers, several being co-types. Collections of high scientific importance include sets of Fries’ ‘Scleromyceti Sueciae’, Lister’s Mycetozoa, and specimens collected by J F Klotzsch.
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