About Samuel Paul Wiltshire
Lived 1891 – 1967 (aged 75–76). Samuel Paul Wiltshire was a botanist.
Samuel Paul Wiltshire (13 March 1891, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset – 13 May 1967) was an English mycologist and phytopathologist. For the academic year 1943–1944 he was the president of the British Mycological Society.
Biography He studied at the University of Bristol and Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
Wiltshire gave the British Mycological Association's 1944 presidential address entitled The organization of the study of systematic mycology. As director, he initiated Mycological Papers, Phytopathological Papers, and the regular publication of the geographical distribution of plant diseases as shown on maps. He also initiated a second abstracting journal, the Review of Medical and Veterinary Mycology, the Index of Fungi (listing new names proposed for genera and species of fungi), and an annual (later semiannual) Bibliography of Systematic Mycology. His 1933 paper on Alternaria and his 1938 paper on Stemphylium are noteworthy.
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