Amédée Galzin Explained

Amédée Galzin (1 May 1853, Parrinet, Aveyron  - 14 February 1925, Parrinet) was a French veterinarian and mycologist.

In 1878 he obtained his degree from the veterinary college in Toulouse. From 1879 to 1905, he served as a military veterinarian, becoming a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1899.[1]

With Abbé Hubert Bourdot, he was co-author of a series of publications (11 parts, 1909 to 1925) involving Hymenomycetes native to France; all parts being published in the Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France. With Bourdot, he also wrote Heterobasidiae nondum descriptae (Descriptions of a few jelly fungi).[2] [3]

With Bourdot, he was the taxonomic authority of the fungi genus Oxyporus,[4] as well as of numerous mycological species.

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.today/20130413161942/http://www.aphyllo.net/php/galzin.php Aphyllo.net
  2. http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/greatlakesdata/Authors/Galzin1766.html Mushroom the Journal
  3. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cgi-bin/bibquery.pl?author=galzin,%20a. Cybertruffle
  4. http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?Link=T&TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=57070&Fields=All MycoBank