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Jan 21, 1829 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany Died on 30 Dec 1905 (aged 76)
American mycologist
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About Job Bicknell Ellis
- Job Bicknell Ellis (January 21, 1829 – December 30, 1905) was a pioneering North American mycologist known for his study of the Ascomycetes, especially the grouping of fungi called the Pyrenomycetes (known today as the Sordariomycetes).
- Born and raised in New York, he worked as a teacher and farmer before developing an interest in mycology.
- He collected specimens extensively, and together with his wife, prepared 200,000 sets of dried fungal samples that were sent out to subscribers in series between 1878 and 1894.
- Together with colleagues William A.
- Kellerman and Benjamin Matlack Everhart, he founded the Journal of Mycology in 1885, forerunner to the modern journal Mycologia.
- He described over 4000 species of fungi, and his collection of over 100,000 specimens is currently housed at the herbarium of the New York Botanical Gardens.
- Ellis had over 100 taxa of fungi named in his honor.
