One especially notable figure who dealt with Massee was none other than Beatrix Potter. The author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit is less well known for her significant contributions as a mycologist and nature illustrator. Prior to her authorial fame, Potter spent a great deal of time in Kew's herbarium, producing hundreds of gorgeous illustrations of fungi, among other organisms, even presenting a paper, "On the Germination of the Spores of Agaricineae," to the Linnaean Society in 1897; at the time, women were all but forbidden from pursuing a proper scientific education, and were prohibited from scientific societies, so her uncle delivered the paper in her stead.

— In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend (Page 72 - 73)