Fungology (1860). His herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is one of the world's most extensive, containing over 9000 specimens as well as numerous notes and sketches. Berkeley corresponded with Anna Maria Hussey assisting her with identifying specimens while she supplied specimens she had collected to add to his herbarium. In 1857, Miles Joseph Berkeley was elected as member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In June, 1879 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1863. He died at his vicarage, Sibbertoft, near Market Harborough, on 30 July 1889. He is honoured in the naming of Berkleasmium, which is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Dematiaceae. Family Berkeley was the father of the scientific illustrator Ruth Ellen Berkeley and named Agaricus ruthae (now known as Pleurotus ruthae) for her. See also List of mycologists Notes References Further reading External links Descriptions of Moss families, illustrated by scans adapted from Rev. M.J. Berkeley's 'Handbook of British Mosses', with updated names. Descriptions of Mushrooms and Toadstools, illustrated by scans from M.J. Berkeley's ‘Outlines of British Fungology’, with updated names. 1803 births 1889 deaths People from North Northamptonshire People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Botanists with author abbreviations English botanists British phytopathologists Phycologists English mycologists Bryologists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Royal Society Royal Medal winners 19th-century biologists Parson-naturalists People from Market Harborough Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina