Evolution in the Higher Basidiomycetes: An International Symposium

Pp. x, 562; frontispiece portrait of L. R. Hesler and second photo of symposium participants, numerous line-drawings and black-and-white photos (individually numbered by chapter).  Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine in black boxes and with gilt vertical decorations, gray pictorial printed dust jacket, lettered in white and in black, lg 8vo.  The twenty-one papers and discussions presented in this thick volume provide a permanent record of the best thinking of the world’s leading systemists of fungi.  Represented are mycologists from Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Mexico, The Netherlands, and many areas of the United States.  These eminent mycologists met on The University of Tennessee campus in August 1968 for a symposium to honor professor and dean emeritus L. R. Hesler on his eightieth birthyear.  The symposium featured six days of invited papers, with discussion, followed by additional days devoted to field trips.  This volume is from the private research collection of University of Michigan mycologist Alexander H. Smith who attended the symposium.