1885réf. 7736Manhattan Kansas: Mercury Publishing House Printers 1885. Booklet stapled in wrappers 21 x 14 cm. 16 pages. FIRST EDITION of the first issue of the first American periodical dedicated to mycology. Includes a statement of purpose for the new journal and reports of new-found fungi in this case new fungi from Kansas and from Iowa. Also included is a separate article "North American Geasters" and a review of new literature in the field. The Journal of Mycology was founded and edited by W.A. Kellerman and was published through 1909 in fourteen volumes at which point it merged with the newly founded Mycologia. Publisher's original printed yellow wrappers with some small chips from corners. With the faint ex-libris stamp of Connecticut College Library. OCLC locates sixteen copies mostly of complete sets. Mercury Publishing House, Printers unknown books