>>What is your precise problem? Do you want to buy mycological books?
Yes. I'd rather not have to send off my more unusual specimens in
order have them I.D'ed. "The suspense is killing me " as they say.
>If so which books? Which genera?
Any and all macrofungi.
>Or do you want access to a good mycological library? If so, where are you based?
Yes, that would be very useful. Unfortunately I own more general
field guides than the college or public libraries here in Nanaimo,
B.C., Canada. Do you know of a website that has species descriptions?
> Most of the online bookstores, like Amazon.com, offer very good search facilities, if you
>give exact titles or subjects. In the UK, for example, the Natural
>History Book Service have an online bookshop, and they have a vast stock
>of myco books. Krypto (Fluck-Wirth) in (I think) Geneva, specialises in
>fungi and cryptogams, and Koeltz (Konigstein) has an incredible stock.
>There's a lot of information out there, you just have to be more
>specific.
>>Colin Will
>Chief Librarian, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
>(c.will at rbge.org.uk preferred email address for botany questions)
Thanks Colin. I'll try them all. So far I've just been talking to
general bookstores and they usually don't know what I'm refering to
and proceed to try to sell me more field guides (groan). Thanks again.
Gary Williams
