William Bywater Grove
William Bywater Grove (24 October 1848 – 6 January 1938), was an English biologist, in particular a botanist and microbiologist. He is remembered in particular as a mycologist. He died in 1938 on the sixth of January when he was 89.[1]
Early life and teaching career
He was born in
entomologist. From 1905 to 1927 Grove lectured in botany at Birmingham Municipal Technical School.[1]
Research work and publications
Grove was the Honorary Curator of the Fungus Herbarium at the University of Birmingham.[1]
He received the Midland Union of Natural History Societies's Darwin Medal in 1884, for "for a monograph on the Pilobolidæ and other botanical papers", published in their journal, The Midland Naturalist.[2]
Grove's publications include:
- 1884. On the Pilobolidæ, With a Synopsis of the European Species, and a Description of a New One. The Midland Naturalist7:131-135,149-153,184-187,214-220,253-260,280-284,304-309,333-339 and plates VI & VI.
- 1884. A Synopsis of the Bacteria and Yeast Fungi and Allied Species (Schizomycetes and Saccharomycetes).[3]
- 1886. The Fungi, in Handbook of Birmingham prepared for the members of the British Association, pp. 339
- 1888. A description of a new species of mushroom, Russula claroflava.[4]
- 1891. (With James Eustace Bagnall) "Fungi", in The Flora of Warwickshire.[5]
- 1910. The Mycetozoa (in the series The Fauna of the Midland Plateau).[6]
- 1913. The British Rust Fungi (Uredinales) : their Biology and Classification.[7]
- 1915. A Pocket Synopsis of the Families of British Flowering Plants (based upon the system of Engler).[8]
- 1935–1937. British Stem- and Leaf-Fungi (Coelomycetes), in 2 volumes.[9][10]
- He translated the mycological treatise of Louis Rene and Charles Tulasne, Selecta Fungorum Carpologia[11] into English.
See also
References
- ^ a b c New York Botanical Garden Archives. Grove, W.B. (William Bywater), 1848–1938 [1]
- ^ "The Darwin Medal". The Gardeners' Chronicle: 51. 9 July 1887.
- OCLC 13202182. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- The Midland Naturalist. 11: 265–266. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- OCLC 15190032. pp. 387–465.
- OCLC 45548734.
- OCLC 811975170. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- OCLC 16352181. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- ^ Grove, W.B. (1935). British Stem- and Leaf-Fungi (Coelomycetes): Volume I Sphaeropsidales. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
- ^ Grove, W.B. (1937), British Stem- and Leaf-Fungi (Coelomycetes): Volume II Sphaeropsidales ... and Melanconiales, Cambridge University Press, retrieved 2015-01-20
- ^ Three volumes available online at [2], [3], [4]
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Grove.
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