Edward Angus Burt
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| Born | (1859-04-09)April 9, 1859 |
| Died | April 27, 1939(1939-04-27) (aged 80) |
Edward Angus Burt (April 9, 1859 – April 27, 1939) was an American mycologist and an authority on the resupinate (flat on the substrate) fungus family Thelephoraceae.[1][2] He received his M.A. in 1894 and PhD. in 1895, both from Harvard University under William G. Farlow and Roland Thaxter.[2] He became a Professor of Natural HistoryatMiddlebury College in 1895, then both a Professor of Botany at the Henry Shaw School of BotanyatWashington UniversityinSt. Louis, and a mycologist for the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1913.[2] He also worked on a systematic description of basidiomycetes such as Merulius and fungi from Vermont, Siberia, and Java.[2]
The Septobasidium species S. burtii is named in his honor.[3][4]
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