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THE BOLETES OF MICHIGAN

Victor Clare Potter

1920-1964

THE BOLETES OF MICHIGAN

Alexander H. Smith and

Harry D. Thiers

Ann Arbor

The University of Michigan Press

ISBN 0-472-85590-5

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 77-107979

Published in the United States of America by

The University of Michigan Press and simultaneously

Don Mills, Canada, by Longmans Canada Limited

Manufactured

the United States of America

Published with the assistance of a grant

from the Horace

Rackham School of

Graduate Studies of the University of Michigan.

DEDICATION

HIS

work is dedicated to Victor Clare Potter, of ithaca,

Michigan; born May 14, 1920, died January 11, 1964.

Victor Potter was a victim of arthritis, but this did I\ot

dampen his enthusiasm for natural history. He had special

crutches made so that he could carry a collecting basket on

one of them, and, so equipped, he made, in the short period

of less than fifteen years, a collection of fleshy fungi of

approximately 20,000 specimens, which is the most signifi-

cant collection in existence from the central part of the

Lower Peninsula. Many of them were boletes, including one

of the most peculiar species of

Leccinum

yet described,

which now bears his name.

He clearly showed by his own efforts that the amateur

naturalist can still make significant contributions to biology.

Indeed, the project on the boletes of Michigan has profited

significantly from the activities of a number of amateurs in

the state.