Dr. Cornelis (Kees) Bas (1928 – February 10, 2013) was a Dutch

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

. Dr. Bas was born in Rotterdam and graduated in Biology at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

in 1954. In 1953, he began working at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, as curator for the fungi, in particular, the

Agaricales The fungal order Agaricales, also known as gilled mushrooms (for their distinctive gills) or euagarics, contains some of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order has 33 extant families, 413 genera, and over 13,000 described species, alo ...

. Early in his career he played an important role in modernizing the collections of Dutch and

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higher fungi. He died on February 10, 2013.

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1928 births 2013 deaths Dutch mycologists Leiden University alumni Scientists from Rotterdam {{Netherlands-scientist-stub