“…Following in Gilbert White's footsteps as an English clergyman–naturalist, Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889) had a childhood interest in nature that led eventually to his becoming the foremost British mycologist of the 1800s (Massee 1913, Whetzel 1918:55–57, Ramsbottom 1948, Ainsworth 1969:14, Taylor 1970, Stafleu and Cowan 1976–1988, I:192–195, Desmond 1977:60, Buczacki 1991, Elliott 2004 a ). He attended Cambridge University, 1821–1825, but left two years before John Stevens Henslow became its professor of botany.…”