Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth
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- Bachelors Botany University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth was a British mycologist and scientific historian. He was the older brother of Ruth Ainsworth. Education and work Ainsworth received his doctorate in Biology from the University of London in 1934. From the 1930s to 1960s, he studied and wrote on fungi including their medical uses. Later, he wrote on the history of the field with An Introduction to the History of Mycology , An Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology , and An Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology in 1986.
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth's Published Works
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- A Dictionary of the Fungi (1943) (1102)
- The fungi : an advanced treatise (1965) (496)
- Ainsworth and Bisby's Dictionary of the fungi. Seventh Edition. (1997) (295)
- Ainsworth & Bisby's "Dictionary of the Fungi" (1960) (227)
- Ainsworth and Bisby's Dictionary of the fungi. Sixth edition. (1971) (215)
- ‘Aerosporin’, an Antibiotic Produced by Bacillus aerosporus Greer (1947) (187)
- Mosaic diseases of the Cucumber. (1935) (129)
- Fungal Diseases of Animals (1973) (103)
- Introduction to the history of mycology. (1976) (84)
- A taxonomic review with keys : ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti (1974) (83)
- A survey of animal mycoses in Britain : general aspects. (1955) (71)
- Host-parasite Relationships (1955) (66)
- A survey of animal mycoses in Britain: mycological aspects. (1955) (62)
- The Incidence of Aspergillosis in Captive Wild Birds (1949) (58)
- A Dictionary of the Fungi. (1944) (56)
- The numbers of fungi (1943) (48)
- The incidence of airborne Cladosporium spores in the London region. (1952) (41)
- A taxonomic review with keys : basidiomycetes and lower fungi (1974) (39)
- Ustilaginales of the British Isles (1984) (37)
- Introduction to the history of plant pathology (1981) (33)
- Agostino Bassi, 1773–1856 (1956) (27)
- Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology (1987) (26)
- Ainsworth and Bisby's dictionary of the fungi. (1961) (22)
- The British Smut Fungi (1951) (20)
- A Contribution to the Mycology of the Mouth (1958) (19)
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE SPOTTING OF TOMATO FRUITS BY BOTRYTIS GINERE A PERS. (1938) (17)
- The fungal population (1968) (16)
- The Fungi; An Advanced Treatise Vol-1-4 (1965) (15)
- AN INVESTIGATION OF TOMATO VIRUS DISEASES OF THE MOSAIC “STRIPE,” STREAK GROUP (1933) (15)
- The Fungi, an Advanced Treatise, Vol. III. The Fungal Population (1969) (15)
- Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi (including the lichens by P. W. James and D. L. Hawksworth). (1971) (14)
- Longevity of Schizophyllum commune. II (1962) (13)
- Nomenclature of the Faviform Trichophytons (1954) (13)
- Eukaryote cell recognition : concepts and model systems (1988) (13)
- CHAPTER 19 – The Number of Fungi (1968) (13)
- The identification of certain viruses found infecting leguminous plants in Great Britain. (1940) (13)
- FUNGI AND FUNGUS DISEASES (1949) (12)
- “ENATION MOSAIC” OF TOMATO CAUSED BY A VIRUS OF THE TOBACCO VIRUS 1 TYPE (1937) (11)
- Mycological Taxonomic Literature and Publication (1955) (11)
- Occurrence of Aspergillus fumigatus Fresen in the Lung of an American Bison (1947) (10)
- Medical mycology. An introduction to its problems. (1952) (10)
- The Medical Research Council's Medical Mycology Committee (1943-1969). A chapter in the history of medical mycology in the United Kingdom. (1978) (10)
- A method for the large-scale production of streptomycin by surface culture. (1947) (10)
- A COMPARISON OF CERTAIN ENGLISH AND CANADIAN POTATO VIRUSES FOUND INFECTING TOMATOES (1934) (9)
- The pattern of medical and veterinary mycological information. (1966) (9)
- The Pattern of Mycological Taxonomy (1954) (9)
- SOME EFFECTS OF TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS ON THE GROWTH OF SEEDLING TOMATO PLANTS (1936) (9)
- Lichenology in the British Isles, 1568–1975 : An Historical and Bibliographical Survey. By D.L. Hawksworth and M.R.D. Seaward. (Richmond, Surrey: Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd.) Pp. ix+231, 21+17 (unnumbered) text-figs. Price £23.10. (1978) (8)
- A NOTE ON CERTAIN VIRUSES OF THE CUCUMBER VIRUS 1 TYPE ISOLATED FROM MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS (1938) (8)
- Storage and Retrieval of Biological Information (1961) (8)
- History of Plant Pathology in Great Britain (1969) (8)
- Detection of Spotted Wilt Virus in Chrysanthemums (1936) (7)
- Fungus diseases of animals in Britain. (1948) (7)
- The fungal organism (1966) (7)
- A century of medical and veterinary Mycology in Britain (1951) (7)
- The Fungi. An advanced treatise. Vol. I. The fungal cell. (1966) (6)
- Virus disease investigations. (1934) (6)
- The gladiolus smut (1949) (6)
- Fungus Diseases of Animals (1950) (6)
- Fungoid infections of animals in Britain. (1954) (6)
- Rules of nomenclature for fungi and bacteria. (1954) (5)
- The Lister notebooks (1972) (5)
- Fungal diseases of animals. Review Series No. 6 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Health. (1959) (5)
- Gulielma Lister Centenary (1960) (5)
- List of fungi recorded as pathogenic for man and higher animals in Britain (1949) (5)
- The dispersal of fungi pathogenic for man and animals. (1957) (5)
- The Pattern of Mycological Information (1963) (5)
- A Mycological English-Latin Glossary (1966) (4)
- The Rules of Nomenclature for Micro-organisms (1948) (4)
- The fungi: an advanced treatise. Volume II. The fungal organism. (1967) (4)
- Training in mycology. (1961) (4)
- British mycologists: 1. M J Berkeley (1803–89) (1987) (4)
- CHAPTER 8 – Fungal Parasites of Vertebrates (1968) (3)
- FIRST OBSERVATION OF ANTIBIOTIC ACTION (1950) (3)
- Nomenclature, the handmaid of classification. (1955) (3)
- British mycologists 13. Alice S Cooke (1890–1975) (1990) (3)
- Contributions towards the fungus flora of Uganda. IV. The Ustilaginales of Uganda. (1941) (3)
- Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836) (1962) (3)
- Note: Virus nomenclature (1943) (3)
- British mycologists 15. W B Brierley (1889–1963) (1991) (3)
- The fungal cell (1965) (3)
- The Flatford Mill Foray: 7–9 May 1948 (1950) (2)
- Dr S. P. Wiltshire (1967) (2)
- British mycologists: 3. Elsie M Wakefield (1886–1972) (1988) (2)
- The Belfast Foray (1950) (2)
- The Totnes Foray: 12–14 May 1950 (1951) (2)
- British mycologists 21. Sir E J Butler (1874–1949) (1993) (2)
- British mycologists 14. F T Brooks (1882–1952); W Brown (1888–1975) (1991) (2)
- A method for characterizing smut fungi exemplified by some British species (1941) (2)
- Microcards for mycologists (1955) (2)
- J. T. Duncan, F.R.C.S.Ir., D.T.M. & H. (1959) (2)
- British mycologists: 4. A H R Buller (1874–1944) (1988) (2)
- British mycologists 23: Arthur (18301908) & gulielma (18601949) lister (1993) (2)
- The Woodhall Spa Foray (1950) (2)
- British mycologists 24. Edmund William Mason (1890–1975) (1993) (2)
- GUY RICHARD BISBY: 17 August 1889 ‐ 3 September 1958 (1959) (2)
- British mycologists: 8. Carleton Rea (1861–1946) (1989) (2)
- British mycologists 5. J sowerby (1757–1822) (1988) (2)
- Obituary: Roger Heim (1900–79) (1981) (2)
- British mycologists: 9. C E Broome (1812–1886) (1989) (2)
- British mycologists: 2. E W Swanton (1870–1958) (1987) (2)
- The new Code of Botanical Nomenclature (1953) (2)
- British mycologists 18. Kathleen Sampson (1892–1980) (1992) (2)
- British mycologists 10. Worthington G Smith (1835–1917) (1990) (2)
- British Mycologists: 25. John Ramsbottom (1885–1974) (1994) (2)
- Tom Petch, B.A., B.Sc.: 1870–1948 (1976) (2)
- British mycologists 22. H M Ward (1854–1906) (1993) (2)
- British mycologists 19: A A Pearson (1874–1954) (1992) (2)
- Skin diseases-mycological origin. (1953) (2)
- Fungus Infections (Mycoses) (1993) (2)
- Medical mycology in Great Britain and the Commonwealth. (1956) (2)
- Landmarks in medical and veterinary mycology. (1983) (2)
- The pattern of mycological taxonomic literature. (1967) (2)
- British mycologists: 6. W B Grove (1848–1938) (1988) (1)
- The Phytopathological Excursion (1939) (1)
- British mycologists 16. Somerville Hastings (1878–1967) (1991) (1)
- Revisio Ustilaginearum (Pars I. Tilletiaceae), R. Ciferri, in: Quaderno, 27. Istituto Botanico della Università Laboratorio Crittogamico, Pavia (1963), xiv, +431. Price: L. 3000 (1964) (1)
- Annual General Meeting: 11 December 1943 (1944) (1)
- Foray report, 1945 (1946) (1)
- Fifteenth Phytopathological Excursion (1939) (1)
- Jubilee of the British Mycological Society (1946) (1)
- Virus diseases (1). (1935) (1)
- Agreement to use the fungus binomials recommended in the List of Common Names of British Plant Diseases (1939) (1)
- Microbial classification : the twelfth symposium of the Society for General Microbiology, 1962 (1962) (1)
- Twenty years of plant pathology 1946-1966. (1966) (1)
- Phytopathological Excursion, 1939 (1940) (1)
- Historical introduction to plant pathology (1972) (1)
- Dr. G. R. Bisby (1958) (1)
- Plant diseases [at Cheshunt in 1939]. (1940) (1)
- An Introduction to Botany, 3rd edition, J.H. Priestley, Lorna I. Scott. Longmans, Green and Co., London (1955), s, 627 pp., 169 text-figures. Price 30 (1956) (1)
- Dr S. P. Wiltshire, 1891–1967 (1967) (1)
- Annual General Meeting: 9 December 1944 (1945) (1)
- CMI 1920-1980. (1980) (1)
- Ustilago maydis. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria]. (1965) (1)
- The spotting of tomato fruits by Botrytis. (1938) (1)
- An Introduction to Industrial Mycology, 5th edition, George Smith. Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., London (1960), xvi, + 399, 168 text-figures. Price 40s (1960) (1)
- Plant Pathology in the British Commonwealth (1960) (1)
- The Oxford Foray (1950) (1)
- Annual General Meeting, 1945 (1945) (1)
- Sphacelotheca sorghi. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria]. (1965) (0)
- Annual general meeting, 1947 (1948) (0)
- Biochemistry of Autotrophic Bacteria, Lees Howard. Butterworths Scientific Publications, London (1955), s, Pp. viii + 112, 6 text-figures. Price 21 (1956) (0)
- ReviewG.K. Parris, A Chronology of Plant Pathology, Johnson and Sons, Starkville, Mississippi (1968), p. vi, +167. Price: $2.00 (1968) (0)
- A Case of Hæmaturia (1907) (0)
- Symposium on Candida Infections (1967) (0)
- Host-parasite relationship. (1955) (0)
- MYCOLOGY MANUAL (1961) (0)
- The Fungi@@@The Fungi, an Advanced Treatise. Volume 2, The Fungal Organism (1967) (0)
- Propaganda in a Good Cause (1969) (0)
- ReviewPrinciples of Fungicidal Action, James G. Horsfall, in: New Series of Plant Science Books, Vol. 30, Chronica Botanica Co., Waltham, Mass. (1956), p. xx, London: Wm Dawson and Sons, Ltd., + 280, 16 text-figures, 7 illustrations. Price: U.S. $6.50 (1957) (0)
- Ainsworth's “History”—A correction (1977) (0)
- Miscellaneous publications: New publication 1989: British county foray lists (up to the end of 1986) (1989) (0)
- Symposium — Ecological Groups and Studies (1969) (0)
- Discussion on Organic Manures and Fertilizers and the Production and Composition of Food for Man and Animals (1953) (0)
- Training in medical mycology. (1961) (0)
- Dr Walter Watson: 1872–1960 (1960) (0)
- Introductory Mycology, C.J. Alexopoulos. John Wiley, New York (1952), s, London: Chapman and Hall, 482 pp., 187 figures. Price 565 (1953) (0)
- C.T. Ingold, The Biology of Fungi, Hutchinson Educational, London (1961), p. 124, 61 text-figures. Price: 12s. 6d (1961) (0)
- Prof. B. M. Duggar (1956) (0)
- The Aspergilli (1966) (0)
- Observations, Botanical and Physiological, on the Potato Murrain, M.J. Berkeley, in: Together with Selections from Berkeley's Vegetable Pathology. Made by the Plant Pathology Committee of the British Mycological Society. Phytopathological Classics, No. 8. American Phytopathological Society, East Lan (1950) (0)
- Review - Précis de Mycologie. Mycologie générale, mycologie humaine et animale, techniques, 2nd edition revised and enlarged, M. Langeron. Masson et Cie, Paris (1952), ix, by R. Van-Breuseghem. + 703 pp., 461 text-figures. Price: Fr. 4800 (bound: Fr. 5400) (1953) (0)
- Review - The Genus Tilletia, Ruben Duran, George W. Fischer. Washington State University (1961), Pp. v+138, 64 text-figures. Price: $2.75 (1962) (0)
- Mushrooms and Toadstools, John Ramsbottom. Collins, London (1953), xiv, s, . (1954) (0)
- John Ramsbottom , Mushrooms and Toadstools, Collins, London (1953), p. xiv +306 pp., 70 plates (46 in colour). Price 30s.. (1954) (0)
- Review of Medical and Veterinary Mycology. (Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey.) 10s. per annum post free. (1952) (0)
- Dispersal in Fungi, C.T. Ingold. Clarendon Press, Oxford (1953), viii, s, +197 pp., 8 plates, 90 text-figures. Price 18 (1954) (0)
- President's Annual Address (1919) (0)
- Cryptococcosis. Torulosis or European Blastomycosis, M.L. Littman, L.E. Zimmerman. Grune and Stratton, New York (1956), x, + 205 pp., 4 coloured plates, 82 figures. Price U.S. $8.50. (1957) (0)
- Annual Review of Phytopathology, Volume I, J.G. Horsfall, K.F. Baker (Eds.). Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, Calif. (1963), 469, Price: $8.50 (in U.S.A.), 9.00 (elsewhere) (1964) (0)
- The Genus Phytophthora. Diagnoses (or Descriptions) and Figures from the Original Papers, Grace M. Waterhouse, in: Miscellaneous Publication No. 12. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew (1956), 120, s, 77 figures. Price: 15 (1957) (0)
- HUMAN FERTILITY STUDIES UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS INTRODUCTION (2007) (0)
- The Fungi in Retrospect@@@Introduction to the History of Mycology. (1977) (0)
- G. Lindau and P. Sydow. Thesaurus literaturae mycologicae et lichenologicae. Supplementum 1911–1930. A–D., R. Ciferri. Renzo Cortina, Pavia (1957), IV, + 689. Price: 20,000 Italian lire (for the complete supplement) (1958) (0)
- ReviewPlant Disease: An Advanced Treatise, J.G. Horsfall, E.B. Cowling (Eds.), in: How Disease is Managed, Volume I, Academic Press, London (1977), pp. xxi+465. Price £20.60. (1978) (0)
- Tilletia barclayana. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria]. (1965) (0)
- A dictionary of the fungi Second Edition. (1945) (0)
- I Funghi. Vita, Storia, Leggende, L. Morandi, E. Baldacci. Garzanti, Milan (1954), viii, + 633 pp., 43 plates (32 in colour), 26 text-figures. Price 4500 lire (1956) (0)
- An Introduction to Medical Mycology, 4th edition, G.M. Lewis, Mary E. Hopper, J.W. Wilson, O.A. Plunkett. Year Book Publishers Inc., Chicago (1958), 453, £s, .) (1958) (0)
- Fungal diseases of animals (translated from English into Spanish). (1975) (0)
- ReviewH.I. Winner, Rosalinde Hurley, Candida albicans, J. and A. Churchill Ltd., London (1964), p. x, + 306, 1 plate, 45 figures. Price: 60s (1965) (0)
- The plant diseases of Great Britain : a bibliography (1937) (0)
- The Classification of Lower Organisms, Herbert F. Copeland. Pacific Books, Palo Alto, California (1956), 302, 1 plate, 45 text-figures. Price: U.S. $7.50. (1957) (0)
- Successful Passage per Rectum of a Key (1910) (0)
- The future of hospital purchasing. (1971) (0)
- C.M.I, descriptions of pathogenic fungi and bacteria (1965) (0)
- Insect Mycoses (1966) (0)
- Medical Mycology, C.W. Emmons, C.H. Binford, J.P. Utz. Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia (1963), 380, London: Henry Kimpton, 2 col. plates, 112 figures. Price: $14.0; 105s. (1964) (0)
- The Smut Fungi, George William Fischer, in: A Guide to the Literature, with Bibliography. The Ronald Press Company, New York (1951), x, + 387 pp. $6 (1951) (0)
- Recent trends in human and annual mycopathology. (1955) (0)
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