Emma Amy Rea

Emma Amy Rea (, 1865–1927) was a British mycologist and scientific illustrator. She was president of the British Mycological Society (1915–1916) and a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.

Family Emma Amy Rose was born in 1865 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire. She was married to naturalist Carleton Rea (1861–1946) in 1898. They had a daughter in 1901, who became a mycologist and whose married name was Violet Ashley-Cooper. They lived in Worcester, Worcestershire.

Career

Rea was a scientific illustrator. She painted over 1700 illustrations of her husband's collections of fungi Rea's Presidential Address to the Society was published in the Transactions of the British Mycological Society. She was also a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.

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