Our Lady of Gasteromycetes: The Mushrooms of Violetta White Delafield with David Rose
October 14, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949), sister of Alain and May White, was an American botanist well-known for her horticultural pursuits at Montgomery Place, the ancestral estate of the Delafield and Livingston families of the Hudson Valley. Delafield was also an accomplished mycologist, the author of important papers on a group of fungi known as gasteromycetes. Her watercolor illustrations of mushrooms and contributions of fungal specimens to the herbaria of The New York Botanical Garden and New York State Museum retain significant scientific value to this day. This talk will explore her career as one of the early female workers in the field of mycology.
About our speaker: David Rose has studied mushrooms for many years. He has been a contributing editor to the journal Fungi since 2008, which publishes his column “Notes from Underground.” Rose is an archivist and has worked at the NY Botanical Garden, and is presently Archivist at the New Rochelle Public Library. He has also written on John Cage and mycology, which led to a couple years of celebrating that subject with the John Cage Trust at Bard College. In 2019, a “John Cage Mycology Weekend” turned into a celebration and exhibit of both Cage and Violetta White. Rose lives in New Rochelle, New York. 2:00 p.m., A. B. Ceder Room, Members: $10.00, Non Members: $20.00, Pre-registration and pre-payment are required.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949), sister of Alain and May White, was an American botanist well-known for her horticultural pursuits at Montgomery Place, the ancestral estate of the Delafield and Livingston families of the Hudson Valley. Delafield was also an accomplished mycologist, the author of important papers on a group of fungi known as gasteromycetes. Her watercolor illustrations of mushrooms and contributions of fungal specimens to the herbaria of The New York Botanical Garden and New York State Museum retain significant scientific value to this day. This talk will explore her career as one of the early female workers in the field of mycology.
About our speaker: David Rose has studied mushrooms for many years. He has been a contributing editor to the journal Fungi since 2008, which publishes his column “Notes from Underground.” Rose is an archivist and has worked at the NY Botanical Garden, and is presently Archivist at the New Rochelle Public Library. He has also written on John Cage and mycology, which led to a couple years of celebrating that subject with the John Cage Trust at Bard College. In 2019, a “John Cage Mycology Weekend” turned into a celebration and exhibit of both Cage and Violetta White. Rose lives in New Rochelle, New York. 2:00 p.m., A. B. Ceder Room, Members: $10.00, Non Members: $20.00, Pre-registration and pre-payment are required.
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