Guy Richard Bisby     (1889 - 1958)


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Biography
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Biography

1912     Bachelor of Science degree, South Dakota State College

1913 - 1914     Assistant, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

1915 - 1916     Assistant, Purdue University

1917     Master's degree from Columbia

1918     Doctorate from the University of Minnesota

1920     appointed professor for phytopathology at Manitoba Agricultural College in Winnipeg (1919, fide Dörfelt & Heklau)

1937     appointed assistant at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute in Kew, England (1936, fide Dörfelt & Heklau)

1954     retires

Much of Bisby's written work was as an orismologist, working on definitions of terms and organizing lists of fungi and fungal names. I'm sure that he has also done fine work on phytopathology; but for those outside that field, he is mainly someone who has done a wonderful job at raising the quality of our information.
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Sources

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
      (Die Geschichte der Mykologie)



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Selected Publications

Guy Richard Bisby (1923) "The literature on the classification of the Hysteriales" in Transactions of the British Mycological Society 8 pp. 176 - 189

Guy Richard Bisby, John Dearness & Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1929) Fungi of Manitoba
includes a complete host index, even for the imperfects (for which spore sizes are given)

Guy Richard Bisby, Arthur Henry Reginald Buller & John Dearness (1933) "Additions to the fungous flora of Manitoba" in Canadian Plant Disease Survey 13 pp. 93 - 102

Guy Richard Bisby (1940) Index of fungi

Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth & Guy Richard Bisby (1943) Dictionary of the fungi
This went through seven editions (the 7th in 1983) as Ainsworth and Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi. Now that both of its original contributors are no longer involved, it has reverted to its original title.

Guy Richard Bisby (1947) Bibliography of systematic mycology

Guy Richard Bisby & Thomas Petch (1950) The fungi of Ceylon


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