Guy Richard Bisby (1889 - 1958)
Back to Author Index
Biography
Sources
Selected publications
Biography
1912 Bachelor of Science degree, South Dakota State College
1913 - 1914 Assistant, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
1915 - 1916 Assistant, Purdue University
1917 Master's degree from Columbia
1918 Doctorate from the University of Minnesota
1920 appointed professor for phytopathology at Manitoba Agricultural College in Winnipeg (1919, fide Dörfelt & Heklau)
1937 appointed assistant at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute in Kew, England (1936, fide Dörfelt & Heklau)
1954 retires
Much of Bisby's written work was as an orismologist, working on definitions of terms and organizing lists of fungi and fungal names. I'm sure that he has also done fine work on phytopathology; but for those outside that field, he is mainly someone who has done a wonderful job at raising the quality of our information.
Back to top
Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
Back to top
Selected Publications
Guy Richard Bisby (1923) "The literature on the classification of the Hysteriales" in Transactions of the British Mycological Society 8 pp. 176 - 189
Guy Richard Bisby, John Dearness & Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1929) Fungi of Manitobaincludes a complete host index, even for the imperfects (for which spore sizes are given)
Guy Richard Bisby, Arthur Henry Reginald Buller & John Dearness (1933) "Additions to the fungous flora of Manitoba" in Canadian Plant Disease Survey 13 pp. 93 - 102
Guy Richard Bisby (1940) Index of fungi
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth & Guy Richard Bisby (1943) Dictionary of the fungiThis went through seven editions (the 7th in 1983) as Ainsworth and Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi. Now that both of its original contributors are no longer involved, it has reverted to its original title.
Guy Richard Bisby (1947) Bibliography of systematic mycology
Guy Richard Bisby & Thomas Petch (1950) The fungi of Ceylon
Back to top
