Edwin John Butler
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Edwin John Butler (1874 in Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland, - 1943) was a plant pathologist in India and England, and director of the Imperial Mycological Institute. He was knighted in 1939.
In 1900 Butler was appointed as the first Cryptogamic Botanist to the Government of India.
Among his later studies were the Panama disease of bananas, Witchbroom disease of cacao in Trinidad and the Yellow Leaf disease of tea in Nyasaland.
[edit] References
- Mason, E.W. (November 1943) "Edwin John Butler: 1874-1943" Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 4(12): pp. 455-474.
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