{{Short description|English mycologist (1819 – 1881)}} '''Frederick Currey''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|FLS|FRS}} (August 1819 – 8 September 1881) was an English mycologist and botanist.
==Biography== Frederick Currey was one of the brothers of the architect Henry Currey (1820–1900). Their father was Benjamin Currey (1786–1848), Clerk of the Parliaments.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1136/pmj.78.920.352 |title=Henry Currey FRIBA (1820–1900): Leading Victorian hospital architect, and early exponent of the "pavilion principle" |date=2002 |last1=Cook |first1=G. C. |journal=Postgraduate Medical Journal |volume=78 |issue=920 |pages=352–359 |pmid=12151691 |pmc=1742402 }}</ref><ref name=Cooper>{{cite book|author=Cooper, Thompson|title=Biographical Dictionary|volume=2|location=London|publisher=George Bell & Sons|year=1890|page=53|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IgXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Benjamin Currey|website=National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp01154/benjamin-currey}}</ref><ref>{{acad|id=CRY827B|name=Currey, Benjamin}}</ref> After education at Eton College, Frederick Currey matriculated in 1837 at Trinity College, Cambridge. There he graduated in 1841 with a B.A. and in 1844 with an M.A. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in June 1839 and called to the bar in 1844. He practised as conveyancer and equity draughtsman.<ref name=ACAD>{{acad|id=CRY837F|name=Currey, Frederick}}</ref>
Currey's scientific publications were primarily in the ''Transactions of the Linnean Society'', the ''Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science'', and other learned journals.<ref name=Cooper/> He translated several German textbooks, including Hermann Schacht's 1851 book ''Das Mikroscop und seine Anwendung insbesondere für Pflanzen-Anatomie und Physiologie'' (''The microscope, and its application to vegetable anatomy and physiology'', 1853;<ref name=Ainsworth>Geoffrey C. Ainsworth. ''[https://www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Printed_documents/my_reprints/1996_WebsterMoore_Ainsworths-Brief-Biographies-British-Mycologists.pdf Brief Biographies of British Mycologists]'' (John Webster, David Moore, eds.), p. 50 (British Mycological Society; 1996) ({{isbn|0952770407}})</ref> 2nd edition, 1855)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Microscope|edition=2nd|year=1855|location=London|publisher=Samuel Highley|url=https://archive.org/details/b28071761/page/n5/mode/2up}}</ref> and Wilhelm Hofmeister's 1851 book ''Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Entfaltung und Fruchtbildung höherer Kryptogamen (Moose, Farrn, Equisetaceen, Rhizocarpeen und Lycopodiaceen) und der Samenbildung der Coniferen'' (''On the germination, development and fructification of the higher Cryptogamia and on the fructification of the Coniferae'', 1862).<ref>{{cite book|title=On the germination, development and fructification of the higher Cryptogamia and on the fructification of the Coniferae|publisher=Ray Society|location=London|year=1862|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rR4FAAAAQAAJ|postscript=; vi+506 pages}}</ref> Currey was one of the first members of the Greenwich Natural History Club, founded in 1852. In 1857 the club appointed a committee to make a report on the district's flora. Currey chaired the committee and drafted the report, which enumerated 395 species of fungi.<ref name=obit>{{cite journal|title=Obituary. Frederick Currey, M.A., F.R.S.|volume=24|date=September 22, 1881|pages=485–486|journal=Nature|doi=10.1038/024485f0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JrUaaFchEZMC&pg=PA485}}</ref> In 1859 he was the club's leader for a field day to identify the cryptogams of the Greenwich neighbourhood. The route was from Southborough Road Station (in Southborough, Bromley) to Chislehurst, St Paul's Cray Common,<ref name=Buchanan>{{cite web|title=History of the Blackheath Scientific Society|author=Buchanan, Richard|date=19 January 2012|url=https://btckstorage.blob.core.windows.net/site2569/History%20of%20the%20Blackheath%20Scientific%20Society.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=St Paul's Cray Common|website=The Chistlehurst Trust|date=19 November 2018 |url=https://chislehurst-society.org.uk/chislehurst-galleries/st-pauls-cray-common/}}</ref> Petts Wood and back to Chislehurst. The participants in the field day found almost forty species of fungi in Petts Wood.<ref name=Buchanan/> In 1861 he edited the ''Natural History Review''.<ref name=obit/> He edited the 2nd edition of Charles David Badham's ''A Treatise of the Esculent Funguses''.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Currey, Frederick|author=Badham, Charles David|edition=2nd|title=A Treatise of the Esculent Funguses|year=1863|location=London|publisher=Lovell, Reeve & Company|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108713#page/9/mode/1up}}</ref>
Currey was elected in 1856 a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London<ref name=obit/> and in 1858 a Fellow of the Royal Society.<ref>{{cite web|title=Frederick Currey 1819–1881|website=Royal Society (royalsociety.org)|url=https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/people/na3464/frederick-currey}}</ref> As successor to John Joseph Bennett, he served as secretary of the Linnean Society from 1860 to 1880. Currey was the society's treasurer and vice-president from 1880 until his death in 1881.<ref name=obit/> Currey's manuscripts on fungi, as well as a crayon portrait of Currey, are at the Linnean Society.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA186|title=Dictionary of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers|last=Desmond|first=Ray|date=1994-02-25|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780850668438|page=186}}</ref> His letters are at the Natural History Museum, London.<ref name=Ainsworth/>
Currey's collection of fungi is now at Kew Herbarium. The genus ''Curreya'' was named by Pier Andrea Saccardo in honour of Frederick Currey.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Currey, Frederick|author=Jackson, Benjamin Daydon|author-link=Benjamin Daydon Jackson|volume=13}}</ref>
Currey died in Blackheath, London.<ref name=ACAD/> His burial took place at Weybridge Cemetery, where his deceased wife was interred some years earlier.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary. Frederick Currey|journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Session 1881–1882|pages=59–60|url=https://ia600708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1111%252F0044-0124.00164-i1.zip&file=10.1111%252Fj.1095-8312.1883.tb01458.x.pdf}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * {{cite journal|author=Currey, Frederick|title=Fungi of the Neighbourhood of Greenwich|journal=The Phytologist|date=November 26, 1853|volume=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWExKFKQKbMC&pg=PA121|pages=121–122}} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, Frederick|title=Fungi of the Neighbourhood of Greenwich|journal=The Phytologist|date=February 25, 1854|volume=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWExKFKQKbMC&pg=PA144|pages=144–145}} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1242/jcs.s1-2.8.240 |title=''On two new'' Fungi |date=1854 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science |issue=8 |pages=240–242 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1242/jcs.s1-3.9.15 |title=On the ''Spiral Threads'' of the Genus ''Trichia'' |date=1855 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science |issue=9 |pages=15–21 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1242/jcs.s1-3.12.263 |title=''On the'' Reproductive Organs ''of certain'' Fungi |date=1855 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science |issue=12 |pages=263–273 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1242/jcs.s1-4.15.192 |title=''On the'' Reproductive Organs ''of certain'' Fungi, ''with some remarhs on'' Germination |date=1856 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science |issue=15 |pages=192–200 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, F.|doi=10.1098/rstl.1857.0027 |title=XXVI. On the fructification of certain sphæriaceous fungi |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |date=1857 |volume=147 |pages=543–553 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, F.|doi=10.1098/rspl.1856.0153 |title=XXVIII. On the fructification of certain Sphæriaceous Fungi |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London |date=1857 |volume=8 |pages=588–589 |doi-access=free }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1242/jcs.s1-5.19.115 |title=On Some Points in the Structure and Physiology of certain Fungi, with notices of the occurrence of some species new to this country |date=1857 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science |issue=19 |pages=115–134 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1857.tb02442.x |title=On a Species of ''Pilobolus'' |date=1857 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Botany |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=162–167 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, F.|year=1857|title=On a New Species of ''Peziza'', being the full Development of Sclerotium roseum, Kneiff|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=1|issue=4|pages=147–149|url=https://ia600708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1111%252Fj.1095-8339.1829.tb00146.x.zip&file=10.1111%252Fj.1095-8339.1857.tb02435.x.pdf}} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1856.tb00098.x |title=XX.-Synopsis of the Fructification of the Compound Sphaeriae of the Hookerian Herbarium |date=1858 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=257–287 |url=https://zenodo.org/records/1637918/files/article.pdf }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1242/jcs.s1-6.24.207 |title=On some British Fresh-water Algæ |date=1858 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science |issue=24 |pages=207–216 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, F.|doi=10.1098/rspl.1857.0024 |title=III. On the existence of amorphous starch in a new tuberaceous fungus |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London |date=1859 |volume=9 |pages=119–123 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|doi=10.1242/jcs.s1-7.28.225 |title=Mycological Notes |date=1859 |last1=Currey |first1=Frederick |journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science |issue=28 |pages=225–235 }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|url=https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1111%252Fj.1096-3642.1845.tb01112.x.zip&file=10.1111%252Fj.1096-3642.1860.tb00122.x.pdf|author=Currey, Frederick|author2=Hanbury, Daniel|title=VIII. Remarks on Sclerotium stipitatum, Berk. et Curr., Pachyma Cocos, Fries, and some similar productions|journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London|volume=23|issue=1|year=1860|pages=93–97| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1860.tb00122.x }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, F.|year=1863|title=VIII. Notes on British Fungi|journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London|issue=2|pages=151–160|url=https://ia600708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1111%252Fj.1096-3642.1845.tb01112.x.zip&file=10.1111%252Fj.1096-3642.1863.tb00158.x.pdf}} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, F.|year=1864|title=XXIV. Notes on British Fungi|journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London|issue=3|pages=491–496|url=https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1111%252Fj.1096-3642.1845.tb01112.x.zip&file=10.1111%252Fj.1096-3642.1863.tb00174.x.pdf}} * {{cite journal|author-mask2=2|url=https://ia600708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1111%252Fj.1096-3642.1889.tb01451.x.zip&file=10.1111%252Fj.1096-3642.1968.tb00507.x.pdf|author=Welwitsch, Friedrich|author-link=Friedrich Welwitsch|author2=Currey, Frederick|title=VI. Fungi Angolenses.–A Description of the Fungi collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in Angola during the years 1850–1861|journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London|volume=26|issue=1|year=1868|pages=279–294|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1968.tb00507.x }} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, F.|title=On a new Genus in the Order Mucedines |journal=Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany |year=1873|volume=13 |issue=69 |pages=333–334 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1873.tb00100.x}} * {{cite journal|author-mask=2|author=Currey, F.|year=1876|title=V. On a Collection of Fungi made by Mr. Sulpiz Kurz, Curator of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta|journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Botany|volume=1|issue=3a|pages=119–131|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1880.tb00251.x |url=https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1111%252Fj.1095-8339.1877.tb02314.x.zip&file=10.1111%252Fj.1095-8339.1880.tb00251.x.pdf}}
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