Charles Horton Peck

Charles Horton Peck
A black and white portrait photograph of Charles Horton Peck
Peck c. 1904 - 1907
Born(1833-03-30)March 30, 1833
Sand Lake, New York, USA
DiedJuly 11, 1917(1917-07-11) (aged 84)
Menands, New York, USA
Resting placeSand Lake Union Cemetery
Known forIdentifying over 2,700 new species of fungi
Scientific career
FieldsMycology
Institutions
  • State Street High School
  • New York State Museum Herbarium

Charles Horton Peck (March 30, 1833 – July 11, 1917) was an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the New York State Botanist from 1867 to 1915, a period in which he described over 2,700 species of North American fungi.[1][2]

  1. ^ Gilbertson, RL. (1962). Index to species and varieties of fungi described by C.H. Peck from 1909 to 1915. Mycologia 54(5):460-5.
  2. ^ Obituary in Botanical Gazette 65(1):103-8