> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 309](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265036) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/31284-1) LSID 31284-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6384017) QID Q6384017 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Bancroft, \[Claude\] Keith (1885-1919), British (Barbados born) mycologist and phytopathologist, educated at Harrison College Barbados, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, B.A. 1909, worked some time in the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew, assistant mycologist in the Federated Malay States 1910, assistant director and government botanist, British Guiana 1913-1919. **Abbreviated name**: *Bancroft* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.K.Bancr.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BRG|BRG]]. − See R.C. Ek, 1990, p. 24-25. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 115 (b. 30 Oct 1885, Barbados, d. 11 Jan 1919, Toronto, Ontario); Kew 1: 150. #### Biofile - Anon., Kew Bull. 1910(7): 253 (appt. Fed. Malay. St.), 1913(2): 91 (appt. Brit. Guiana), 1919(1-2): 86 (obit.); Bot. Centralbl. 140(22): 352. 1919 (d.). - Ek, R.C., Fl. Guianas suppl. ser. 1: 24-25. 1990 (coll.). ### Publications ##### n.20.151. A handbook of the fungus diseases of West Indian plants **Title** *A handbook of the fungus diseases of West Indian plants*... London (Geo. Pullman and Sons,... \[on cover, t.p. has: "published privately by the author"\]) 1910. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1910 (Nat. Nov. Oct (1) 1910), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-70, *pl. 1-6* (uncol.). *Copy*: L.