Arthur Disbrowe Cotton
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Arthur Disbrowe Cotton,
A.D. Cotton was born in London and educated at
In 1904 he was appointed assistant to George Massee, head of mycology and cryptogamic plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Cotton remained at Kew till 1915, officially working on algae, but also making time to pursue his particular interest in clavarioid fungi.
During this time Cotton collaborated with
In 1915 he took charge of a newly established Plant Pathology Laboratory at Kew (later moved to the
A.D. Cotton was President of the
During his career he published a number of papers on plant pathology, fungi, and algae, as well as co-authoring the first seven parts of the supplement to Elwes' Monograph of the genus Lilium. He also described several new taxa of fungi and algae. The marine algal genus Cottoniella Boergesen and the species Fucus cottonii M.J. Wynne & Magne were named after him.
He had married botanist Enid Mary, daughter of John Charles Jesson, in 1913. They had a son and a daughter.
Sample Publications
- Cotton, A.D. (1906). Marine algae from Corea. Kew bulletin of miscellaneous information 1906: 366-373
- Cotton, A.D. (1907). Marine algae from the Chatham Islands. Kew bulletin of miscellaneous information 1907: 37-43.
- Cotton, A.D. (1907). Notes on British Clavariae. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 2: 163-166
- Cotton, A.D. (1909). Notes on marine pyrenomycetes. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 3: 92-99, 1 plate.
- Cotton, A.D. (1912). Clare Island Survey. Marine algae. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 31B(15): 1-178, 11 tables.
- Cotton, A.D. (1914). Some suggestions as to the study and critical revision of certain genera of the Agaricaceae. Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 4: 224-235
- Cotton, A.D. (1915). Cryptogams from the Falkland Islands collected by Mrs Vallentin. Journal of the Linnean Society Botany 43: 137-231, tabs 4-10
- Cotton, A.D. & Wakefield, E.M. (1919). A revision of the British Clavariae. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 6: 164-198
- Grove, A. & Cotton, A.D. (1933–40) Supplement to Elwes' Monograph of the genus Lilium, Parts 1-7. London
- Cotton, A.D. (1936). Marine algae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 148: 45-49.
References
- ISBN 9780850668438.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Cotton.
- ^ Professor Margaret Clayton (5 April 2003). Falkland Islands Seaweed Survey (PDF) (Report). The Shackleton Scholarship Fund. p. 1. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
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- ^ Ramsbottom, J. (1964). Obituary: Arthur Disbrowe Cotton. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 47: 141-142 & photo
- ^ Hubbard, C.E. (1963). Mr A.D. Cotton. Taxon 12
- ^ Ainsworth, G.C. (1996). Brief biographies of British mycologists. Stourbridge: British Mycological Society
External links
Media related to Arthur Disbrowe Cotton at Wikimedia Commons
- "Cotton, Arthur Disbrowe (1879-1962) Mycologist". National Register of Archives. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
- Arthur Disbrowe Cotton finding aid collection at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew archives.