CORNELL UNIVERSITY
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

401 Plant Science Building
Department of Plant Pathology

Ithaca, NY 14853-4203 USA

Telephone: 607 255-5356

Facsimile: 607 255-4471
Email: kh11@cornell.edu

May 16, 2000

 

Dear mycophile,

 

You are cordially invited to this year's Charles Horton Peck Annual New York State Mushroom Foray.

The foray will be held at Cornell's Arnot Forest just south of Ithaca.

Dates: Friday, Sept. 29 ­ Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000
Web page: http://ccfb.cornell.edu/Peck.html

 

Please visit our web site to find traveling information, printable registration forms, and related information.

Your $75 registration includes rustic shared cabin accommodations and meals for the whole weekend.

 

Your reservation and full payment must be received by September 5th.

 

We have some special events planned for this weekend:

 

Friday night we'll have a keynote address from Dr. Tim Baroni on the fungi of the Caribbean islands.

 

We'll collect fungi on the beautiful Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve, where Cornell has teamed up with a

Pharmaceutical company and a Land Trust to bioprospect for pharmaceuticals.

 

Saturday evening we'll play a stimulating game of Fungal Jeopardy, hosted by the inestimable Dr. George Hudler.

 

The Peck Foray is now in its 47th great year. It's a fun weekend, and we expect an interesting diversity of mycophiles,

ranging from serious students of mycology to beginning mushroom-hunters.

 

Reply by September 5th to reserve your spot.

You may register through our web site: http://ccfb.cornell.edu/Peck.html

Hope to see you there,

 

Dr. Kathie T. Hodge, host mycologist
Jim Babcock and Gordon Hill, co-coordinators
Dept. of Plant Pathology
Cornell University