Мордеха́й Кук ( англ. Mordecai Cubitt Cooke ; 12 июля 1825 — 12 ноября 1914 ) — английский ботаник и миколог .

Его сын стал иллюстратором книг и художником.

Награды

В 1903 году награждён Медалью Линнея за продолжение линнеевских традиций в современной биологии.

Труды

• The Seven Sisters of Sleep. Popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world (James Blackwood, London, 1860 ).
• A Manual of Structural Botany: for the use of classes, schools, & private students … With upwards of 200 illustrations by Ruffle (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1861 , второе издание 1877 )
• A Manual of Botanic Terms … With illustrations (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1862 , второе издание 1873 ).
• A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi: with descriptions of the esculent and poisonous species … With twenty-four coloured plates (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1862 , другие издания 1866 , 1876 , 1884 , 1898 ).
• Index Fungorum Britannicorum. A complete list of fungi found in the British Islands to the present date, etc. (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1863 ).
• Our Reptiles. A plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs, and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain. With original figures of every species, and numerous woodcuts (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1865 , второе издание 1893 W.H. Allen & Co., London).
• Rust, smut, mildew, & mould. An introduction to the study of microscopic fungi (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1865 , другие издания 1870 , 1878 , 1886 ).
• A Fern Book for Everybody. Containing all the British ferns. With the foreign species suitable for a fernery (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1867 ).
• One Thousand Objects for the Microscope, etc. (Robert Hardwicke, London, 1869 , другие издания 1895 , 1900 Frederickk Warne & Co., London et New York).
• Handbook of British Fungi, with full descriptions of all the species and illustrations of the genera (2 т., Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1871 , второе издание 1883 ).
• Report on the Gums, Resins, Oleo-Resins, and Resinous Products in the India Museum, or produced in India. Prepared under the direction of the Reporter on the Products of India (London, 1874 ).
• Fungi: their nature, influence, and uses (London, 1875 , другие издания 1883 , 1894 , 1920 K. Paul).
• Report on the Oil Seeds and Oils in the India Museum, or produced in India. Prepared under the direction of the Reporter on the Products of India (London, 1876 ).
• The Woodlands (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1879 ).
• Mycographia, seu Icones fungorum. Figures of fungi from all parts of the world, drawn and illustrated by M. C. Cooke (Williamsz & Norgate, London, 1875 , 1879 ).
• Ponds and Ditches (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1880 ).
• Freaks and Marvels of Plant Life; or, Curiosities of vegetation (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1881 ).
• Illustrations of British Fungi… To serve as an atlas to the «Handbook of British Fungi» (8 т, Williams & Norgate, London, 1881 à 1891 ).
• British Fresh-Water Algæ. Exclusive of Desmidieæ and Diatomaceæ, etc. (2 т, Williams & Norgate, London, 1882 — 1884 ).
• British Desmids. A supplement to British Fresh-Water Algæ, etc. (Williams & Norgate, London, 1887 ).
• Toilers in the Sea. A study of marine life (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1889 ).
• Introduction to Fresh-Water Algæ with an enumeration of all the British species … With thirteen plates, etc. (London, 1890 ).
• British Edible Fungi: how to distinguish and how to cook them, etc. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, 1891 ).
• Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms. A popular history of entomogeneous fungi or fungi parasitic upon insects… With… illustrations (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1892 ).
• Romance of Low Life amongst Plants. Facts and phenomena of cryptogamic vegetation (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1893 ).
• Handbook of British Hepaticae, etc. (W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894 ).
• Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1894 , переиздание 1902 ).
• Down the Lane and back, in search of wild flowers. By Uncle Matt (T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895 ).
• Through the Copse. Another ramble after flowers with Uncle Matt (T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895 ).
• Around a Cornfield, in a ramble after wild flowers. By Uncle Matt (T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895 ).
• Across the Common, after wild flowers. By Uncle Matt (T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895 ).
• A Stroll on a Marsh, in search of wild flowers. By Uncle Matt (T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1895 ).
• Introduction to the Study of Fungi: their organography, classification, and distribution. For the use of collectors (Adam & Charles Black, London, 1895 ).
• Object-Lesson Handbooks to accompany the Royal Portfolio of Pictures and Diagrams (T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1897 — 1898 ).
• Introduction to fresh water algae (K. Paul, 1902 ).
• Fungoid Pests of Cultivated Plants (Spottiswoode & Co., London, 1906 ).

Ссылки

• English, Mary P. (1987), Mordecai Cubitt Cooke: Victorian naturalist, mycologist, teacher & eccentric . Biopress, Bristol, ISBN 0-948737-02-6