# Emma Amy Rea > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Emma_Amy_Rea > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Emma_Amy_Rea.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Amy_Rea > Source revision: 1337880981 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British mycologist (1865–1927)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}}{{Use British English|date=October 2025}} {{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](/source/Lincoln%2C_England), [Lincolnshire](/source/Lincolnshire), England | death_date = 1927 | organization = [British Mycological Society](/source/British_Mycological_Society)
[Linnean Society of London](/source/Linnean_Society_of_London) | spouse = [Carleton Rea](/source/Carleton_Rea) (m. 1898) | children = Violet Ashley-Cooper }} '''Emma Amy Rea''' {{Post-nominals/GBR|FLS}} ({{Nee|Rose}}, 1865–1927) was a British [mycologist](/source/Mycology) and [scientific illustrator](/source/scientific_illustrator). She was president of the [British Mycological Society](/source/British_Mycological_Society) (1915–1916) and a fellow of the [Linnean Society of London](/source/Linnean_Society_of_London). == Family == Emma Amy Rose was born in 1865 in [Lincoln](/source/Lincoln%2C_England), [Lincolnshire](/source/Lincolnshire). She was married to [naturalist](/source/naturalist) [Carleton Rea](/source/Carleton_Rea) (1861–1946) in 1898.{{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 }}{{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 }} They had a daughter in 1901, who became a [mycologist](/source/mycologist) and whose married name was [Violet Ashley-Cooper](/source/Violet_Ashley-Cooper).{{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}} They lived in [Worcester](/source/Worcester%2C_England), [Worcestershire](/source/Worcestershire).{{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}} == Career == thumb|238x238px|Rea in 1918 Rea was a [scientific illustrator](/source/scientific_illustrator).{{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](/source/University_of_Stuttgart)}} She painted over 1700 illustrations of her husband's collections of [fungi](/source/Fungus) and also taught their daughter scientific illustration. 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](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew). Rea became president of the [British Mycological Society](/source/British_Mycological_Society) in 1915.Her husband served as Secretary.{{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}} Rea's Presidential Address to the Society was published in the ''Transactions of the British Mycological Society''.{{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 }} She was also a fellow of the [Linnean Society of London](/source/Linnean_Society_of_London).{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}} == Gallery == File:Boletus reticulatus by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|[''Boletus reticulatus''](/source/Boletus_reticulatus) File:Geaster asper by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''[Geaster](/source/Geaster) asper'' File:Geaster fornicatus by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''Geaster fornicatus'' File:Hygrophorus squamulosus by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''[Hygrophorus](/source/Hygrophorus) squamulosus'' File:Inocybe proximella by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''[Inocybe](/source/Inocybe) proximella'' File:Trametes cinnabarina by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''[Trametes](/source/Trametes) cinnabarina'' File:Tricholoma irinum by Emma Amy Rea.jpg|''[Tricholoma](/source/Tricholoma) irinum'' == 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](/source/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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Emma Amy Rea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Amy_Rea) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Amy_Rea?action=history)). 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