Chinese mycologist Shu Chun Teng studied at Cornell in the 1920s and, after returning to his native country, “spent the next decade traveling on horseback gathering molds, lichens, yeasts, rusts and morels in the forests, fields and marshes of his homeland.” During the Japanese invasion he had his collection smuggled to the United States. He was punished during the Cultural Revolution for his dealings with foreign countries and died in 1970. Last week Teng was honored at a ceremony at the Chinese Academy of Sciences where the President of Cornell University returned the vast collection of fungi to China. Teng’s daughter is certain that her father would be happy that it was back home.