Contacts

After working on the list below I found this page on the Mycological Society of America which lists many mycologists with working e-mail addresses.
Directory of MSA Members
All that is needed is to fill in one rectangle and then click on "search".  The most useful search, in my opinion and for my purposes, is the one where the "Specialty " rectangle is filled with the option "Systematics-Evolution".  This gives you a list of 540 mycologists.  These characters have an irritating habit of not answering their e-mail :o)  My suggestion is to find one who will answer your e-mail and explain your identification problem to him or her.  Post some good, clear photos someplace on the Internet so that they can look at them.  Provide as much information about the mushroom as possible.  If that person can not help you he/she might suggest writing to someone else.  Meanwhile I will keep working on the list below until the mushroom season starts.

Below are names of professional mycologists that can be approached to possibly identify mushrooms that you could not identify any other way and you suspect that it might be a new specie.  You should first try to identify the mushroom yourself.  If that does not work, try posting to a discussion group where there are some experts such as on my NE Mushroom Hunters.
I recommend that you post pictures of your mushroom to the internet.  Make sure to get a spore print.  Then write the mycologists and ask him or her to look at your pictures to see if he/she can recognize your mushroom.  Also include the spore print color and things like the size of the cap, where the mushroom was found etc.  The more information you can give about the mushroom the better.  If it looks like it might be something unusual or new to science he/she will ask you to ship a dried specimen.  Ask him/her for instructions on drying and shipping.
1 - able to help with identification only
2 - able to help identify and write up new species
3 - instructions from mycologist
4 - did not reply to e-mail