Edward Angus Burt

Edward Angus Burt (April 9, 1859 – April 27, 1939) was an American mycologist and an authority on the Thelephoraceae family of resupinate (flat on the substrate) fungi. He received his M.A. in 1894 and Ph.D. in 1895, both from Harvard University under William G. Farlow and Roland Thaxter. He became Professor of Natural History at Middlebury College in 1895, then both Professor of Botany at the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University and 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.