Marcel Bon

{{Short description|French botanist (1925–2014)}} {{more citations needed|date=May 2009}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} thumb|Marcel Bon

'''Marcel Bon''' (17 March 1925 – 11 May 2014)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fmbds.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CAFAM-2014-CR-complet.pdf|title=CAFAM 2014|website=fmbds.org|access-date=20 May 2024}}</ref> was one of France's best known field mycologists. He was born in Picardy in 1925 and came to mycology through general botany, and pharmacology.<ref name = "MarcelBon87">{{cite book | author = Marcel Bon | year = 1987 | title = The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North Western Europe | publisher = Hodder and Stoughton | isbn = 0-340-39935-X}}</ref> He lived at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, a small town on the mouth of the river Somme, in Picardy, Northern France, which was a former artists' and writers' retreat.

In 1987, along with two artists (John Wilkinson, and Denys Ovenden) he produced a comprehensive field guide for mycologists, ''The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe''. His other skills were as a pianist, an artist, and a skier.

==Bibliography== *''The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North Western Europe'', Bon M., (1987) pub. Hodder and Stoughton. **{{ISBN|0 340 39935 X}} (paperback) **{{ISBN|0 340 39953 8}} (hardback). *''Les tricholomes de France et d'Europe occidentale'', Bon. M, (1984) pub. Lechevalier (Paris). *''Fungorum Rariorum Icones Coloratae, Part 15 Corinarius'', Bon. M, (1986) pub. Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd. *''Collins Pocket Guide; Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-Western Europe'' (Paperback), (2004) pub. HarperCollins Canada.

==See also== *List of mycologists

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090426220620/http://www.nhbs.com/mushrooms_and_toadstools_of_britain_and_north_west_tefno_23882.html Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-West Europe]

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