Thomas Petch (1870 - 1948)
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Biography
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Biography
taught mathematics and natural science at a grammar school in King's Lynn, England
graduated from the University of London
taught at the Leyton Technical Institute
1905 - 1925 mycologist at the botanical garden in Peradeniya, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
1925 - 1928 director of the Tea Research Institute, in the same country
1928 returns to England, where he married a daughter of Charles Plowright, and eventually settled in Plowright's old home.
Besides his extensive experience with tropical fungi, especially those that attack the tea and rubber plants, Petch was interested in entomogenous fungi and the Hypocreales.
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, D. L. Hawksworth & P. W. James (1971) Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
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Selected Publications
Thomas Petch (1908) "The Phalloideae of Ceylon" in Annals of the Royal Botanical Garden of Peradeniya 4 pp. 139 - 184
Thomas Petch (1908) "The genus Endocalyx Berkeley and Broome" in Annals of Botany 22:87 pp. 389 - 400
Thomas Petch (1916) "Studies in entomogenous fungi: V. Myriangium" in Transactions of the British Mycological Society 9 pp. 45 - 80
Thomas Petch (1921) "Studies in entomogenous fungi: II. The genera Hypocrella and Aschersonia" in Annals of the Royal Botanical Garden of Peradeniya 7 pp. 167 - 278
Thomas Petch (1932) "British species of Hirsutella" in The Naturalist 1932 pp. 45 - 49
Thomas Petch (1932) "A list of the entomogenous fungi of Great Britain" in Transactions of the British Mycological Society 17:3 pp. 170 - 178A listing (a bare one, I assume, since the page count is so short), with hosts and locations of collection, of all the entomogenous fungi (except Laboulbeniales ) in Britain. I assume that this is mostly Cordyceps. With all the work on Trichomycetes that has been done since 1932, such a list would need to be ten times as long today.
Guy Richard Bisby & Thomas Petch (1950) The fungi of Ceylon
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