> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 285](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266592) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/16765-1) LSID 16765-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5346564) QID Q5346564 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Butler, Edwin John (1874-1943), British botanist (mycologist), born in County Clare, Eire, educated at Queens College, Cork, senior scholar 1896, studied medicine, M.B. hons. at the Royal University Ireland 1898 (never practised), travelled to Paris, Freiburg, Antibes and Kew 1899-1900, appointed to the post of cryptogamic botanist to the Government of India, arrived in Calcutta 1901, transferred to Dehra Dunn 1902, idem to Pusa as Imperial mycologist at the new Agricultural Research Institute 1905-1920, returned to England, director of the \[then\] Imperial Bureau of Mycology 1920-1935, secretary to the Agricultural Research Council 1935-1941, knighted 1939. **Abbreviated name**: *E.J. Butler* \[standard form in IPNI: *E.J.Butler*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection IMI|IMI]], further material in [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection PUR|PUR]]. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 157, 230, 287, 305, 323, 328; Desmond p. 110; Kew 1: 441; LS 4545-4556, 31.817-31.832; LS suppl. 4385-4418, 6715; Stevenson p. 1237; Tucker 1: 129. #### Biofile - Anon., Kew Bull. 1901(169/171): 80. 1901 (appointment to be cryptogamic botanist in India); 1921(1): 30 ("Companion of the most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire"); Gard. Chron. 1921(1): 26 (portr.): 1943(1): 180; Nature 151: 552-553. 1943; Times 6 Apr 1943 (d.). - Evans, G., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 155: 294-296. 1944 (detailed obituary, b. 13 Aug 1874, d. 4 Apr 1943 at Esher, Surrey). - Mason, E.W., Obit. notices Fellows R. Soc. 4(12): 455-474. Nov 1943. #### Note Outside our period: E.J. Butler and S.G. Jones, *Plant Pathology* p. xii, 979, 1949, 1955, and 1961. ### Publications ##### n.23.974. Indian wheat rusts **Title** *Indian wheat rusts*... with a note on the relation of weather to rust on cereals... Pusa (Agricultural Research Institute)... Calcutta (Printed by Thacker, Spink & Co.) 1906. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ind. wheat rusts*. **Notes** *Co-author 1*: J.M. Hayman (text with Butler p. \[1\]-52). *Co-author 2*: W.H. Moreland (separate note on *The Relation of weather*... on p. \[53\]-58. *Publ*.: Jul 1906 (date on t.p.; Nat. Nov. Apr (2) 1907), p. \[i\], \[1\]-58, chart, *pl. 1-5* (of which *1-4* col.). *Copies*: B, BR, L, U. – Issued as Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Bot. Ser. 1(2): \[i\], \[1\]-58. chart, *pl. 1-5.* 1906. *Ref*.: Müller, Bot. Zeit. 65(II): 226. 1 Jul 1907 (rev.). ##### n.23.975. Fungus diseases of sugar-cane in Bengal **Title** *Fungus diseases of sugar-cane in Bengal*... Pusa (Agricultural Research Institute) Calcutta (Printed by Thacker, Spink & Co.) 1906. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fungus diseas. sugar-cane*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1906 (date on t.p.; Nat. Nov. Apr (2) 1907), cover-t.p., *pl. 1* (col. lith.), p. \[i, t.p.\], \[1\]-53, *pl. 2-11* (pl. *5* col, *2-4*, *6-11* uncol.). *Copies*: BM, BR, L, U. – Issued as Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Bot. Ser. 1(3): \[i\], \[1\]-53, *pl. 2-11.* 1906. *Ref*.: Müller, Bot. Zeit. 65 (II): 220-221. 1 Jul 1907 (rev.). ##### n.23.976. An account of the genus Pythium and some Chytridaceae **Title** *An account of the genus Pythium and some Chytridaceae*... Pusa (Agricultural Research Institute)... Calcutta (Printed by Thacker, Spink & Co.) 1907. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Account Pythium Chytrid.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1907 (date on t.p., Nat. Nov. Jun (2): 1907), p. \[i, iii\], \[1\]-160, \[161, err.\], *pl. 1-10 *(uncol. liths.). *Copies*: BR, KNAW, U. – Issued as Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Bot. Ser. 1(5): \[i, iii\], 1-160, \[161, err.\], *pl. 1-10.* 1907. *Ref*.: Büsgen, M., Bot. Zeit. 66(II): 21-22. 16 Jan 1908 (rev.). ##### n.23.977. Some diseases of cereals caused by Sclerospora graminicola **Title** *Some diseases of cereals caused by Sclerospora graminicola*... Pusa (Agricultural Research Institute)... Calcutta (Printed by Thacker, Spink & Co.) 1907. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Diseas. Sclerospora gram.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1907 (date on p. \[i\]), p. \[i-ii\], *pl. 1*, \[1\]-24, *pl. 2-5* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: BR, U. – Issued as Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Bot. Ser. 2(1): \[i-ii\], *pl. 1*, 1-24, *pl. 2-5.* 1907. ##### n.23.978. The mulberry disease **Title** *The mulberry disease* caused by Coryneum mori nom. in Kashmir with notes on other Mulberry diseaeses... Pusa (Agricultural Research Institute). Published for the Imperial Department of Agriculture in India by Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta W. Thacker & Co., London 1909. Oct. (*Mulberry disease*). **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1909 (date on p. \[i\]), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-17, \[18\], *pl. 1-4* (uncol. phot. and lith.). *Copies*: BR, U. – Issued as Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Bot. Ser. 2(8): \[i-ii\], 1-17, \[18\], *pl. 1-4.* 1909. ##### n.23.979. Allomyces **Title** On *Allomyces*, a new aquatic fungus... Annals of Botany... 1911. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1911 (date on cover-t.p., Nat. Nov. Dec (2) 1911), cover-t.p., p. \[1023\]-1035. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Bot. 25(100): 1023-1035. 1911. – See ING 1: 55. 1979. ##### n.23.980. Fungi and disease in plants **Title** *Fungi and disease in plants*. An introduction to the diseases of field and plantation crops, especially to those of India and the East... Calcutta and Simla (Thacker, Spink & Co.) 1918. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fungi disease pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1918 (preface Mar 1918), p. \[i\]-iv, \[v-vi\], \[1\]-547. *Copies*: BR; IDC 7450. *Reprint*: 1973 (n.v.). ##### n.23.981. The Fungi of India **Title** The Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. *The Fungi of India*... Calcutta (Government of India Central Publication Branch) 1931. Oct. (*Fungi India*). **Notes** *Co-author*: Guy Richard Bisby (1889-1958), see TL-2/1: 219, and suppl. 2: 174-175. *Publ*.: Oct 1931 (date on t.p.), p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-237, folded map. *Copies*: B, NY. – Issued as Scientific Monograph no. 1. The Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. *Supplement*: 1938, see B.B. Mundkur, *Fungi of India Supplement 1*, Delhi 1938, TL-2/6544. *Revised ed*.: 1960 (printer's mark 4 Jun 1960), p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-ix, \[xi\], map, 1-552, suppl. 1-2 (518 p.). *Copy*: L. – Revised by R.S. Vasudeva. – New Delhi (issued by The Indian Council of Agricultural Research). – Chief editor: Prem Nath. Printed in India, Delhi 1960. Oct. – 1000 copies published.