Emma Amy Rea

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Emma Amy Rea
FLS
Rea in 1913
Born1865 (1865)
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Died1927 (aged 61–62)
Organization(s)British Mycological Society
Linnean Society of London
SpouseCarleton Rea (m. 1898)
ChildrenViolet Ashley-Cooper

Emma Amy Rea FLS (née Rose, 1865–1927) was a British mycologist and scientific illustrator. She was president of the British Mycological Society (1915–1916) and a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.

Family

Emma Amy Rose was born in 1865 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire. She was married to naturalist Carleton Rea (1861–1946) in 1898.[1][2] They had a daughter in 1901, who became a mycologist and whose married name was Violet Ashley-Cooper.[3] They lived in Worcester, Worcestershire.[4]

Career

Rea in 1918

Rea was a scientific illustrator.[5] She painted over 1700 illustrations of her husband's collections of fungi[2] and also taught their daughter scientific illustration.[3] An exhibition of her work was held by the Swansea Field Naturalists' Society in Wales. Rea's watercolours are held in the mycology collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[3]

Rea became president of the British Mycological Society in 1915.[1][3]Her husband served as Secretary.[6] Rea's Presidential Address to the Society was published in the Transactions of the British Mycological Society.[7] She was also a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.

References

  1. Ainsworth, Geoffrey C. (1996). Webster, John; Moore, David (eds.). Brief Biographies of British Mycologists (PDF). British Mycological Society. p. 138. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 December 2025. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  2. Hesler, Lexemuel Ray (15 November 2013). "Mycologists Notebook 2". L. R. Hesler’s Mushroom Notebooks: 53. Archived from the original on 31 March 2025. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  3. Sutton, Brian (2 May 1996). A Century of Mycology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 91–92. ISBN 978-0-521-57056-5.
  4. Ward, Harry Marshall (1902). Biological Papers. Vol. 3. p. 207.
  5. "Rea, Emma Amy Rose". Database of Scientific Illustrators (1450-1950), University of Stuttgart. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  6. The Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland: A Record of the Work Done in Science, Literature and Art. Vol. 33. Charles Griffin & Company. 1916. p. 142.
  7. Rea, Emma Amy (1 January 1914). "Notes on fungus illustrations". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 5: 211–228. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(14)80025-9. ISSN 0007-1536. Retrieved 18 October 2025.