{"id":15219,"date":"2025-03-25T07:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-fungi-pioneers-lifelong-work-on-exhibit\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:11:36","slug":"a-fungi-pioneers-lifelong-work-on-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-fungi-pioneers-lifelong-work-on-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fungi Pioneer\u2019s Lifelong Work on Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On an early summer day in 1876 near Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, a middle-aged woman carrying three large, putrid mushrooms repulsed fellow travelers riding a horse-drawn trolley car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even wrapped in paper, the stench of the aptly named stinkhorn mushrooms was overpowering, but the woman stifled a laugh upon overhearing two other passengers gripe about the swarm of flies around them. The smell didn\u2019t bother her. All she cared about was getting the specimens home to study them, she would later write.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This was Mary Elizabeth Banning, a self-taught mycologist who, over the course of nearly four decades, conducted seminal research on the fungi of her state, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Miss Banning characterized thousands of specimens that she found in Baltimore and the surrounding countryside, identifying 23 species new to science at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A gifted artist, she collected these observations into a manuscript called \u201cThe Fungi of Maryland.\u201d It consisted of 175 stunning watercolor plates, each an accurate yet intimate portrait of a given species, along with detailed scientific descriptions and anecdotes about collecting the mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The manuscript was Miss Banning\u2019s life\u2019s work, and she yearned to see it published. But it ended up in a drawer at the New York State Museum in Albany, forgotten for almost a century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A selection of her watercolors makes up the backbone <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nysm.nysed.gov\/exhibitions\/outcasts-mary-bannings-world-of-mushrooms\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">of an exhibition at the museum<\/a> that opened this month and runs until Jan. 4 of next year. The exhibition, called \u201cOutcasts,\u201d recognizes Miss Banning\u2019s long-overlooked scientific legacy as well as the museum\u2019s mycology collection, which is one of the most historically significant in the country, according to Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, the museum\u2019s mycology curator, who conceived the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Miss Banning called fungi \u201cvegetable outcasts.\u201d Back then (and all the way until 1969) fungi were classified as a peculiar type of plant. Most botanists<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>from the mid-19th century viewed their study as a research backwater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Miss Banning herself was an outcast. \u201cShe wanted very much to be part of the scientific community,\u201d said John Haines, who was the museum\u2019s mycology curator until he retired in 2005 and who has extensively researched her history. But as a woman living in the 19th century, that path was largely closed to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Similar to contemporaries such as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/19\/obituaries\/beatrix-potter-overlooked.html\" title=\"\">Beatrix Potter,<\/a> who also sought to make her mark on the emerging field of mycology, \u201cthe sentiment was, \u2018Well, you go home and make your pictures,\u2019\u201d Dr. Haines said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One scientist did give her the time of day: Charles Horton Peck, who worked at the museum as New York\u2019s first state botanist from 1868 to 1913. Mr. Peck, a pre-eminent figure in American mycology, dedicated most of his career to fungi, collecting more than 33,000 specimens in surveys across New York and describing more than 2,700 new species in his annual reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA lot of the fungi that people recognize from New York or from the Northeast are ones that Peck described,\u201d Dr. Kaishian said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Miss Banning first wrote Mr. Peck in 1878, asking for feedback on her manuscript. Unlike other scientists she had tried to contact, he wrote back, and they corresponded for nearly 20 years. Her letters, some of which are exhibited, offer a window into their relationship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou are my only friend in the debatable land of fungi,\u201d she wrote to him in 1879. She chronicled her collecting forays and scientific observations, and relayed her dreams for the manuscript. \u201cI have a powerful will,\u201d she wrote in 1889. \u201cI have made up my mind to brave defeat sooner than not make an effort to have the plants of Maryland published.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Miss Banning\u2019s letters were often whimsical and passionate. None of Mr. Peck\u2019s letters to her remain, but his tone in other letters suggested he was much more restrained. Nevertheless, he treated Miss Banning like a respected colleague \u2014 offering her scientific mentorship, publishing descriptions of species with her support and even naming species after her. Their scientific bond was undeniable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a love story, but not between the two people \u2014 they were both in love with fungi,\u201d Mr. Haines said. A play he wrote about their relationship drawing from Miss Banning\u2019s letters will be performed at the museum on April 4 at a gallery opening event for the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Love triangles, though, are especially prone to turning sour. With no publishing prospects of her own in sight, Miss Banning sent her manuscript to Mr. Peck in 1890, hoping that he could publish it. \u201cHe would have had the resources to make it a permanent part of the mycological record,\u201d Dr. Kaishian said. But he never did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although she expressed how difficult it was to part from the work and begged him to reassure her that he appreciated its contribution to the field, she did not receive such recognition. \u201cIt seems to me by her letters that she died without really understanding the legacy, the value of her work,\u201d Dr. Kaishian said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one of her last letters to Mr. Peck in 1897, six years before she died, destitute and alone in a rooming house in Virginia, Miss Banning lamented the book\u2019s loss. \u201cI hardly know how I ever came to part with my illustrated book,\u201d she wrote. \u201cTo tell you the truth, I long to see it and call it my own once more, but this could never be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat just still brings tears to my eyes,\u201d Dr. Haines said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was Dr. Haines who originally brought Miss Banning\u2019s manuscript to light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An eccentric curator showed it to him when he visited the museum for a job interview in 1969. He recalls being dazzled by the colors, which were superbly preserved by the fact that the pages had not been open to sunlight for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He exhibited some of the paintings in 1981, and they were shown a few more times, including in Talbot County, Md., where Miss Banning was born. With the help of this spotlight, Miss Banning was inducted into the Maryland Women\u2019s Hall of Fame in 1994. But since the mid-1990s, in part because the pigments degrade quickly in the light, the pictures had been packed away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Beyond Miss Banning\u2019s work, \u201cOutcasts\u201d gives visitors a glimpse into the broader historical context of mycology. \u201cFungi are enormously critical organisms that, going back hundreds of millions of years, have shaped the very texture of the earth,\u201d Dr. Kaishian said. \u201cBut their stories are still mysterious and often neglected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to Miss Banning\u2019s watercolors and letters, the exhibition includes a host of other artifacts and experiences. Visitors can explore one of Peck\u2019s microscopes and mushroom specimens collected by Miss Banning as well as ones collected recently by Dr. Kaishian, or marvel at a set of strikingly realistic wax sculptures of New York fungi made for the museum in 1917 by an artist, Henri Marchand, and his son Paul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary history. A rare fossil of <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Prototaxites<\/em>, a 30-foot-tall fungus that lived during the Devonian period about 400 million years ago, points to just how significantly the Earth has changed over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Overall, Dr. Kaishian said she hoped that the exhibition demonstrated why natural history collections like this one deserve public support and preservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 150-year-old specimens hidden in cabinets that visitors rarely see help scientists map the limits of different organisms, both geographically and genetically \u2014 and that makes it possible to document changes to biological diversity in the face of climate change, for example.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNatural history collections are active repositories for contemporary research,\u201d Dr. Kaishian said. \u201cThere needs to be a lot more science communication about what goes on here and why it 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