Important: Safety Warning
This page offers rules for telling edible mushrooms from poisonous ones. No such rules are reliable, and these identifications predate modern mycology. Deadly species closely resemble edible ones, and mistakes are regularly fatal. Never eat a wild mushroom on the strength of this text.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Funk
ISAAC KAUFFMAN, American editor and publisher, born at Clifton, Ohio, in 1839. He was educated at Wittenberg College, Ohio. For several years he was a pastor in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1878 he formed the publishing house of Funk and Wagnalls and published many reprints of English books. In 1889 the Literary Digest was established and in 1898 the Standard Dicti ٠١١١ FUR moted him Brigadier-General General of volunteers May 2, 1899, in recognition of his fearless and brilliant feat in swimming across the Rio Grande at Calumpit under a heavy fire, and establishing a rope ferry, by means of which the Americans crossed the river and defeated the insurgents. On May 2, 1900, while cruising up the Rio Grande he espied a ladder connecting with the summit of a cliff on TITI 1 2 4 3 mellswin 2 6 5 7 EDIBLE FUNGI 1. Lacteria 2. Morel 3. Ringed Boletus 4. Rough-Stemmed Boletus ary was published. This was revised in 1913. He was an active Prohibitionist and founded in 1880 the "Voice" as an organ of that party. In his later years he became interested in psychical research and wrote "The Next Step in Evolution" (1902); and "The Psychic Riddle" (1907). He died in 1912.