Edward Angus Burt (April 9, 1859 in Athens, Pennsylvania[1]—April 27, 1939) was an American mycologist and an authority on the resupinate (flat on the substrate) fungus family Thelephoraceae.[2][3] He received his M.A. in 1894 and PhD. in 1895, both from Harvard University under William G. Farlow and Roland Thaxter.[3] He became a Professor of Natural History at Middlebury College in 1895, then both a Professor of Botany at the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis, and a mycologist for the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1913.[3] He also worked on a systematic description of basidiomycetes such as Merulius and fungi from Vermont, Siberia, and Java.[3]
Edward Angus Burt | |
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| Born | April 9, 1859 |
| Died | April 27, 1939 (aged 80) |
The Septobasidium species S. burtii is named in his honor.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ BURT, Edward Angus in Who's Who in America (1926 edition); p. 388
- ^ Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University, Farlow Herbarium
- ^ a b c d EDWARD ANGUS BURT PAPERS (1895-1926), New York Botanical Gardens
- ^ Septobasidium burtii, MycoBank
- ^ Henk, D. A.; Vilgalys, R. (2007). "Molecular phylogeny suggests a single origin of insect symbiosis in the Pucciniomycetes with support for some relationships within the genus Septobasidium". American Journal of Botany. 94 (9): 1515–1526. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.9.1515. PMID 21636518.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Burt.
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