Derek Reid
Derek Reid was born in Leighton Buzzard, England, United Kingdom on September 2nd, 1927 and is the Biologist. At the age of 78, Derek Reid biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Derek Agutter Reid, born in 1927, died on January 18, 2006, he was an English mycologist.
Background and education
Reid, the son of a picture framer, was born in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. He was educated at Cedars School and the University of Hull, where he studied geology and botany. He earned his PhD from the University of London in 1964 for a thesis (later published) on stipitate stereoid fungi.
Mycological career and travels
He began as an assistant to Dr R.W.G. in 1951. Dennis is the head of mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, and he is a student at the University of On the 24th of May. Derek Reid took over his position as a result of his retirement in 1975 and spent the remainder of his life at Kew until his own retirement in 1987.
Derek Reid, a naturalist and enthusiastic field mycologist, was leading regular fungus forays in his home Bedfordshire for over 40 years, as well as teaching fungus identification courses at Field Studies Centres and evening classes at the University of London. In 1980, he published his well-known field guide to British fungi; Mushrooms and Toadstools: A Kingfisher Guide. He was also able to travel in Kew much more often than his predecessors, visiting and collecting fungi in continental Europe, the United States, Australia, and South Africa. Prof. Albert Eicker, a South African researcher, coauthored several joint papers with his fellow mycologist Prof. Albert Eicker at the University of Pretoria, in particular. Reid stayed in Pretoria for a while as a visiting Professor at the university in 1989, after his departure from Kew.
Derek Reid's main concern was in the taxonomy of fungi, particularly (but not exclusively) the Basidiomycota. He has written more than 200 papers on British and international animals, mainly on agarics, but also on heterobasidiomycetes, gasteromycetes, and other macrofungi, some of which include many new species. Several fungal species have been named after him, including Volvariella reidii, Peniophora reidii, and the common European Waxcap Hygrocybe reidii.
Reid was a natural performer and illustrated his own books. In the Nova Hedwigia journal, several of his paintings of rare fungi were included in his series "Coloured Icones of Rare and Interesting Fungi." In the Kew Herbarium, he also created paintings depicting various species of specimens and other fungi, which are now in collections at Kew.