Edwin John Butler
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Sir Edwin John Butler was an Irish mycologist and plant pathologist. He became the Imperial Mycologist in India and later the first director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology in England. He was knighted in 1939.
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Charles HedleyAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te ApārangiGeorge Frederick Leycester MarshallAlso won Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
George Tomkyns ChesneyAlso won Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
William MittenAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
George RollestonAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
Albion Rajkumar BanerjeeAlso won Companion of the Order of the Indian EmpireAbout this person
Sir Edwin John Butler was an Irish mycologist and plant pathologist. He became the Imperial Mycologist in India and later the first director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology in England. He was knighted in 1939. During his twenty years in India, he began large scale surveys on fungi and plant pathology and published the landmark book Fungi and Disease in Plants: An Introduction to the Diseases of Field and Plantation Crops, especially those of India and the East (1918) and has been called the Father of Mycology and Plant Pathology in India.
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