> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 174](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265371) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/16154-1) LSID 16154-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15977605) QID Q15977605 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bisby, Guy Richard|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Bisby, Guy Richard (1889-1958), American (South Dakota-born) mycologist and plant-pathologist, studied at the South Dakota State College at Brookings S.D., B.Sc. 1912, plant pathologist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York 1913, studied concurrently at Columbia University 1914-1915 (M.A. 1915) and worked sometime for the American Potato Corporation (Presque Isle), assistant in botany at the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Lafayette 1915, assistant professor with E.C. Stakman at Minnesota, Ph.D. ib. 1920, professor of plant pathology in the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 1920-1936, stage at Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Kew 1921-1922, at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew 1937-1954. **Abbreviated name**: *Bisby* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bisby*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DAOM|DAOM]], [[Collection IMI|CMI]]([[Collection IMI|IMI]]), [[Collection WIN|WIN]]. − Further material at [[Collection DAO|DAO]], [[Collection MTJB|MTJB]], [[Collection MTMG|MTMG]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 190; BFM 3060; Desmond p. 66; IH 2: 76; Kew 1: 250; LS suppl. 1256, 2782-2801; Stevenson p. 1236; TL-2/1: 219 and see indexes. #### Biofile - Ainsworth, G.C., Nature, London 182: 987. 1956; Taxon 8(1): 2. 1959 (obit.); Intr. hist. mycol. 230, 305, 328, 331, 332. 1976. - Anon., Amer. men Sci. eds. 3,4,5. - Bisby, G.R., Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc., Fifty-year index 1896-1946. 8. 1952. - Gregory, P.H., Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 42(2): 129-131. 1959 (obit., source for our first paragraph, portr.; b. 17 Aug 1889, Brookings, South Dakota, USA, d. 3 Sep 1958, Staines, Middlesex, U.K.). - Hawksworth, D., Mycologist's handbook 181. 1974. - Johnson, T., Phytopathology 49: 323. 1959. - Rodgers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 43, 54. 1951. #### Outside our period - (1) *An introduction to the taxonomy and the nomenclature of fungi*, Kew 1945, 117 p. - (2) *The fungi of India* by E.J. Butler and G.R. Bisby, ed. 2. 1960, supplement 1-2, New Dehli 1962-1968 (suppl. 2 by S.T. Tikk). − See also TL-2/6544. - (3) With G.C. Ainsworth, *A dictionary of the fungi*, ed. 1. Sep 1943, ed. 2. Aug 1945, ed. 3. Mai 1950, ed. 4. Jan 1954, ed. 5. Jan 1961, ed. 6. Oct 1971, ed. 7. Aug 1983 (eds. 5 and 6 by Ainsworth, 7 by Ainsworth et al.). #### Composite works - (1) With J.C. Arthur et al., *The plant rusts*. 1929, see TL-2, suppl. 1: no. 19.539. - (2) *The British mycological Society* (Recognosce notum, ignotum inspice) *Transactions*. Fifty year index (1896-1946; volumes 1-30). Cambridge (at the University Press) 1952. - (3) With E.J. Butler (senior author, q.v.), *The fungi of India*... Calcutta (Government of India...) 1931. Oct.; revised by B.S. Vasadera, New Dehli 4 Jun 1960. − See also Mundkur, B.B., Fungi India Suppl. 1938, TL-2/6544. ### Publications ##### n.21.334. The literature on the **Title** *The literature on the* classification of the *Hysteriales*... Cambridge (at the University Press) 1923. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 21 Mar 1923 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[i, recto of 176\], \[176\]-189. *Copies*: B, L. − Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 8(3): 176-189. 1923. ##### n.21.335. Type specimens of certain Hysteriales **Title** *Type specimens of certain Hysteriales*... Reprinted from Mycologia... 1932. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai-Jun 1932 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[i, recto of 304\], \[304\]-329. *Copies*: B, L. − Reprinted and to be cited from Mycologia 24(3): 304-329. 1932. ##### n.21.336. The distribution of fungi **Title** *The distribution of fungi* as compared with that of phanerogams... Reprinted from the American Journal of Botany... 1933. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1933 (in journal), t.p. (on recto of p. 246), p. 246-254. *Copy*: L. − Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. J. Bot. 20: 246-254. 1933. ##### n.21.337. The fungi of Manitoba and Saskatchewan **Title** Memoirs on Canadian Fungi. *The fungi of Manitoba and Saskatchewan*... Published by the National Research Council of Canada under the authority of the chairman of the Committee of the Privy Council on Scientific and Industrial Research... Ottawa, Canada... 1938. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fungi Manit. Sask.* **Notes** *Collaborators*: A.H.R. Buller, John Dearness, W.P. Fraser, R.C. Russell; preface by H.T. Güssow. *Publ*.: Dec 1938 (date on t.p.), p. \[1\]-189, map, *pl. 1-13* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: L, MO. *Preceeded* by: G.R. Bisby et al., *Fung. Manitoba* 1929, see TL-2/527. − See also G.R. Bisby and A.H.R. Buller, *Preliminary list of Manitoba fungi*, Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 8: 91-104. 14 Dec 1922.