Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

{{Infobox scientist

|name = Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

|honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|size=100%|FRSC|FRS}}

|image = Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (3).jpg

|image_size =

|caption = Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, c.1900

|birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1874|08|19}}

|birth_place = Moseley, Birmingham, England

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1944|07|03|1874|08|19}}

|death_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

|residence =

|citizenship = British-Canadian

|nationality = English

|ethnicity =

|fields = Mycology, Botany

|workplaces = University of Birmingham
University of Manitoba

|alma_mater = {{plainlist|

}}

|doctoral_advisor = Robert Hartig, University of Munich and Wilhelm Pfeffer, University of Leipzig

|academic_advisors =

|doctoral_students =

|notable_students =

|known_for =

|author_abbrev_bot = Buller

|author_abbrev_zoo =

|influences =

|influenced =

|awards = {{plainlist|

1851 Research Fellowship {{small|(1898–1901)}}
Royal Medal {{small|(1937)}}
Flavelle Medal {{small|(1929)}}
Fellow of the Royal Society

}}

|religion =

|signature =

|footnotes =

}}

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, {{Post-nominals|size=100%|sep=,|FRSC|FRS}} (19 August 1874 – 3 July 1944) was a British-Canadian mycologist. He is mainly known as a researcher of fungi, especially wheat rust.{{cite journal |last1=Estey |first1=R H |title=A. H. R. Buller: Pioneer Leader in Plant Pathology |journal=Annual Review of Phytopathology |date=September 1986 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=17–23 |doi=10.1146/annurev.py.24.090186.000313 |language=en |issn=0066-4286|doi-access=free }}

Academic career

Image:Mason Science College.png]]

Born in Moseley, Birmingham, England, he was educated at Queen's College, Taunton. He then studied at Mason College, which later became part of the University of Birmingham, (B.Sc. in 1896),{{cite web|title=University of London General Register part 3|url=http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf|publisher=University of London|access-date=27 December 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023058/http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf|url-status=dead}} the University of Leipzig (Ph.D.), and the University of Munich. He was awarded a D.Sc. by the University of Birmingham. He worked briefly for the Naples Zoological Station. From 1901 to 1904, he was a lecturer in Botany at the University of Birmingham. He came to Canada in 1904, founded the Botany Department and was the first Professor of Botany and Geology at the University of Manitoba, and served as Head of the Botany Department until his retirement in 1936.

His book Essays on Wheat (Macmillan, 1919) deals with the early history of wheat-growing in Manitoba, wheat-growing in western Canada, the discovery and introduction of Marquis wheat, the origin of the wheat varieties Red Bobs and Kitchener, and Palestine's wild wheat.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YqMUAAAAYAAJ| title=Essays on Wheat: Including the Discovery and Introduction of Marquis Wheat, the Early History of Wheat-growing in Manitoba, Wheat in Western Canada, the Origin of Red Bobs and Kitchener, and the Wild Wheat of Palestine | last1=Buller | first1=Arthur Henry Reginald | year=1919 }}{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/567683|title=Essays on Wheat by A. H. Reginald Buller (Review) |journal=The Canadian Historical Review |year=1920 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=220–222 |last1=Jackson |first1=G. E. |doi=10.3138/chr-01-02-br14 |s2cid=249799063 }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/105224a0|title=Essays on Wheat by A. H. R. Buller |year=1920 |last1=Russell |first1=E. J. |journal=Nature |volume=105 |issue=2634 |pages=224–225 |bibcode=1920Natur.105..224R |s2cid=4196205 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2106539 }} He wrote a 7-volume series Researches on Fungi published in 6 volumes from 1909 to 1934 with the 7th volume published posthumously in 1950.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiS3GLHBhvQC| title=Researches on Fungi. Vol. II: Further Investigations upon the Production and Liberation of Spores in Hymenomycetes | last1=Buller | first1=Arthur Henry Reginald | year=1922 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gu8_DwAAQBAJ| title=Researches on Fungi, Vol. VII: The Sexual Process in the Uredinales | isbn=9781487596446 | last1=Buller | first1=A. H. Reginald | date=15 December 1950 | publisher=University of Toronto Press }}{{cite journal|doi=10.1126/science.113.2938.455|title=Review of Researches on Fungi: The Sexual Process in the Uredinales , Vol. VII. by A. H. Reginald Buller |year=1951 |last1=Wehmeyer |first1=Lewis E. |journal=Science |volume=113 |issue=2938 |pages=455–456 }}

Poetry

He also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch, including this one on Einstein's special theory of relativity:[http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/19/lady-bright/ There Was a Young Lady Named Bright Whose Speed Was Far Faster Than Light], Quote Investigator, Dec 19, 2013, last accessed 2014-02-18.

{{Quote box|align=center|quote=There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She started one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.|source=A. H. Reginald Buller in Punch (19 December 1923): 591.}}

Honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in 1909, and became its President in 1927. He was the President of the British Mycological Society in 1914.{{cite journal|author=Buller, AH Reginald|title=The fungus lore of the Greeks and Romans (presidential address)|journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society|volume=5|year=1914|pages=21–66|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(14)80007-7 |url=https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/crossref-pre-1923-scholarly-works/10.1016%252Fs0002-9394%252821%252990966-8.zip&file=10.1016%252Fs0007-1536%252814%252980007-7.pdf}} In 1929, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal. In 1937, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).{{Cite journal | last1 = Brooks | first1 = F. T. | title = Arthur Henry Reginald Buller. 1874-1944 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1945.0004 | journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 5 | issue = 14 | pages = 50–59 | year = 1945 | s2cid = 161309176 | doi-access = free }} He was a life member of the Mycological Society of America.

He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, University of Calcutta, University of Manitoba, and University of Pennsylvania. The Buller Building at the University of Manitoba, built in 1932, is named in his honour.

References

Goldsborough, Gordon. Reginald Buller: The Poet-Scientist of Mushroom City. Manitoba History Number 47, Spring/Summer 2004

External links

{{cite archive |collection-url= http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/rad/buller.html |collection= A.H. Reginald Buller fonds |institution= University of Manitoba |accession= Mss 184, Pc 175 (A.98-31, A.04-25, A.08-62) }}
{{cite web |url= http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/buller_ahr.shtml |publisher= Manitoba Historical Society (MHS)) |title= Arthur Henry Reginald Buller |series= Memorable Manitobans }}
{{cite journal |url= http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/47/poetscientist.shtml |journal= Manitoba History |title= Reginald Buller: The Poet-Scientist of Mushroom City |first= Gordon |last= Goldsborough |issue= 47 |date= 2004 |series= Biography |publisher= MHS }}

{{s-ttl|title=President of the Royal Society of Canada|years=1927–1928}}

{{Presidents of the Botanical Society of America|state=collapsed}}

Category:1874 births

Category:1944 deaths

Category:People from Moseley

Category:British mycologists

Category:20th-century British botanists

Category:20th-century Canadian botanists

Category:Canadian mycologists

Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Category:Fellows of the Royal Society

Category:English emigrants to Canada