Harold Wager

Harold William Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 - 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist.[1] He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904.[2][3] He was President of the British Mycological Society in 1910[4] and again in 1919.[5]

Wager was first a lecturer in botany at the Yorkshire College, then at Victoria University, then later he took the role of an Inspector of Schools for the Board of Education.[6]

References

  1. ^ "obit. Dr. Harold Wager, F.R.S.". Nature 124 (3138): 953–954. 21 Dec. 1929. doi:10.1038/124953a0. 
  2. ^ "WAGER, Harold W. T.". Who's Who, 59: p. 1812. 1907. http://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1812. 
  3. ^ "Wager; Harold William Taylor (1862 - 1929)". http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27Wager%27%29. Retrieved 4 March 2011. 
  4. ^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists. p. 708. ISBN 0850668433. http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0850668433. 
  5. ^ "Presidential address. The significance of sex and nuclear fusion in the fungi.". Trans. British Mycol. Soc. 6: 305–17. 1920. 
  6. ^ "Certificates of Election and Candidature". http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo==%27EC%2F1904%2F15%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl. Retrieved 4 March 2011. 

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