William Bywater Grove (24 October 1848 – 6 January 1938), was an English biologist, in particular a

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Ancient Greek, Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of Microorganism, microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, f ...

. He is remembered in particular as a

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

. He died in 1938 on the sixth of January when he was 89.New York Botanical Garden Archives. Grove, W.B. (William Bywater), 1848–193

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Early life and teaching career

He was born in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

, England. From 1887 to 1900 he was headmaster of the St Edmunds High School for boys, Birmingham. One of the pupils at that school during that period was Augustus Daniel Imms, a prominent

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. From 1905 to 1927 Grove lectured in botany at Birmingham Municipal Technical School.

Research work and publications

Grove was the Honorary Curator of the Fungus

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at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. Grove's publications include: * 1884. ''A Synopsis of the Bacteria and Yeast Fungi and Allied Species (Schizomycetes and Saccharomycetes)''. * 1888. A description of a new species of mushroom, '' Russula claroflava''. * 1891. (With James Eustace Bagnall) "Fungi", in ''The Flora of Warwickshire''. * 1910. ''The Mycetozoa'' (in the series The Fauna of the Midland Plateau). * 1913. ''The British Rust Fungi (Uredinales) : their Biology and Classification''. * 1915. ''A Pocket Synopsis of the Families of British Flowering Plants (based upon the system of Engler)''. * 1935–1937. ''British Stem- and Leaf-Fungi (Coelomycetes)'', in 2 volumes. * He translated the mycological treatise of Louis Rene and Charles Tulasne, Selecta Fungorum CarpologiaThree volumes available online a

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Botanists with author abbreviations 1848 births 1938 deaths English mycologists {{mycologist-stub

Early life and teaching career

Research work and publications

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