{{Short description|British mycologist (1865–1927)}}
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{{Infobox person | honorific_suffix = FLS | image = Emma Amy Rea British Mycological Society 1913 a.jpg | caption = Rea in 1913 | birth_date = 1865 | birth_place = Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England | death_date = 1927 | organization = British Mycological Society<br>Linnean Society of London | spouse = Carleton Rea (m. 1898) | children = Violet Ashley-Cooper }}
'''Emma Amy Rea''' {{Post-nominals/GBR|FLS}} ({{Nee|<b>Rose</b>}}, 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Ainsworth |first=Geoffrey C. |url=https://www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Printed_documents/my_reprints/1996_WebsterMoore_Ainsworths-Brief-Biographies-British-Mycologists.pdf |title=Brief Biographies of British Mycologists |date=1996 |publisher=British Mycological Society |editor-last=Webster |editor-first=John |pages=138 |editor-last2=Moore |editor-first2=David |archive-date=15 December 2025 |access-date=18 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251215235756/https://www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Printed_documents/my_reprints/1996_WebsterMoore_Ainsworths-Brief-Biographies-British-Mycologists.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Hesler |first=Lexemuel Ray |author-link=Lexemuel Ray Hesler |date=2013-11-15 |title=Mycologists Notebook 2 |url=https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_hesler/155 |journal=L. R. Hesler’s Mushroom Notebooks |page=53 |access-date=2025-10-18 |archive-date=31 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250331105928/https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_hesler/155/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They had a daughter in 1901, who became a mycologist and whose married name was Violet Ashley-Cooper.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Sutton |first=Brian |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Century_of_Mycology/khN0AkonrDIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Emma+Amy+Rea&pg=PA91&printsec=frontcover |title=A Century of Mycology |date=1996-05-02 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-57056-5 |pages=91-92 |language=en}}</ref> They lived in Worcester, Worcestershire.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ward |first=Harry Marshall |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Biological_Papers/hS9EAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Rea,+Emma+Amy&dq=Rea,+Emma+Amy&printsec=frontcover |title=Biological Papers |date=1902 |volume=3 |pages=207 |language=en}}</ref>
== Career == thumb|238x238px|Rea in 1918 Rea was a scientific illustrator.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rea, Emma Amy Rose |url=https://dsi.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/index.php?tablename=dsi&function=details&where_field=id&where_value=4338 |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=Database of Scientific Illustrators (1450-1950), University of Stuttgart}}</ref> She painted over 1700 illustrations of her husband's collections of fungi<ref name=":2" /> and also taught their daughter scientific illustration.<ref name=":1" /> An exhibition of her work was held by the Swansea Field Naturalists' Society in Wales.{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}} Rea's watercolours are held in the mycology collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.<ref name=":1" />
Rea became president of the British Mycological Society in 1915.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />Her husband served as Secretary.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Year_book_of_the_Scientific_and_Lear/QLZeWZn7H3kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Emma+Amy+Rea&dq=Emma+Amy+Rea&printsec=frontcover |title=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 |date=1916 |publisher=Charles Griffin & Company |volume=33 |pages=142 |language=en}}</ref> Rea's Presidential Address to the Society was published in the ''Transactions of the British Mycological Society''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rea |first=Emma Amy |date=1914-01-01 |title=Notes on fungus illustrations |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007153614800259 |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=5 |pages=211–228 |doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(14)80025-9 |issn=0007-1536 |access-date=2025-10-18|url-access=subscription }}</ref> She was also a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}}
== Gallery == <gallery> File:Boletus reticulatus by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''Boletus reticulatus'' File:Geaster asper by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''Geaster asper'' File:Geaster fornicatus by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''Geaster fornicatus'' File:Hygrophorus squamulosus by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''Hygrophorus squamulosus'' File:Inocybe proximella by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''Inocybe proximella'' File:Trametes cinnabarina by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''Trametes cinnabarina'' File:Tricholoma irinum by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''Tricholoma irinum'' </gallery>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://dsi.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/index.php?tablename=dsi&function=details&where_field=id&where_value=4338 Amy Emma Rose Rea] at the [https://dsi.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/index.php?function=show_static_page&id_static_page=1 Database of Scientific Illustrators (1450-1950)] , University of Stuttgart
{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rea, Emma Amy}} Category:1865 births Category:1927 deaths Category:People from Lincoln, England Category:English mycologists Category:British Mycological Society Category:Fellows of the Linnean Society of London