Marcel Bon (17 March 1925 – 11 May 2014) 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. 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.

• (paperback)

• (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

References

External links

• Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-West Europe