LC control no. | no2015025690 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Crossland, C. (Charles), 1844-1916 |
Variant(s) | Crossland, Charles, 1844-1916 |
Birth date | 18440903 |
Death date | 19161209 |
Place of birth | Halifax (England) |
Field of activity | Fungi |
Profession or occupation | Butchers Naturalists |
Found in | Massee, G. The fungus flora of Yorkshire, 1905: t.p. (C. Crossland, F.L.S., Halifax Hon. Secretary of the Yorkshire Mycological Committee) Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 1916: vol. 15, pp. 466-469 (obituary: Charles Crossland (1844-1916); well-known Halifax naturalist, died in his native town on December 9th, 1916; born on September 3rd, 1844; at the age of sixteen he commenced to learn the trade of a butcher, and when twenty opened a meat, grocery and general store at Wyke, where he remained until 1873 when he returned to Halifax having purchased a butchery trade there; attended the fungus foray of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Leeds in 1888; first paper on fungi appeared in 1890, "Fungi new to W. Yorks"; one of the finest of the justly-celebrated north country working men naturalists) |
Associated language | eng |