Edward Angus Burt (April 9, 1859 in Athens, PennsylvaniaBURT, Edward Angus in Who's Who in America (1926 edition); p. 388—April 27, 1939) was an American mycologist and an authority on the resupinate (flat on the substrate) fungus family Thelephoraceae.Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University, Farlow HerbariumEDWARD ANGUS BURT PAPERS (1895-1926), New York Botanical Gardens He received his M.A. in 1894 and PhD. in 1895, both from Harvard University under William G. Farlow and Roland Thaxter. 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. He also worked on a systematic description of basidiomycetes such as Merulius and fungi from Vermont, Siberia, and Java.
The Septobasidium species S. burtii is named in his honor.Septobasidium burtii, MycoBank
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