Edward Angus Burt

Edward Angus Burt (April 9, 1859 in Athens, Pennsylvania^[1]—April 27, 1939) was an American mycologist and an authority on the resupinate (flat on the substrate) fungus family Thelephoraceae.^[2][3] He received his M.A. in 1894 and PhD. in 1895, both from Harvard University under William G. Farlow and Roland Thaxter.^[3] He became a Professor of Natural History at Middlebury College in 1895, then both a Professor of Botany at the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis, and a mycologist for the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1913.^[3] He also worked on a systematic description of basidiomycetes such as Merulius and fungi from Vermont, Siberia, and Java.^[3]

Edward Angus Burt
Born	(1859-04-09)April 9, 1859
Died	April 27, 1939(1939-04-27) (aged 80)

The Septobasidium species S. burtii is named in his honor.^[4][5]