Harold Wager

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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

^ "obit. Dr. Harold Wager, F.R.S." Nature. 124 (3138): 953–954. 21 December 1929. doi:10.1038/124953a0.
^ "WAGER, Harold W. T." Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1812.
^ "Wager; Harold William Taylor (1862–1929)". Retrieved 4 March 2011.
^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists. p. 708. ISBN 0-85066-843-3.
^ "Presidential address. The significance of sex and nuclear fusion in the fungi". Trans. British Mycol. Soc. 6: 305–17. 1920.
^ "Certificates of Election and Candidature". Retrieved 4 March 2011.

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[1] "obit. Dr. Harold Wager, F.R.S." Nature. 124 (3138): 953–954. 21 December 1929. doi:10.1038/124953a0.

[2] "WAGER, Harold W. T." Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1812.

[3] "Wager; Harold William Taylor (1862–1929)". Retrieved 4 March 2011.

[4] Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists. p. 708. ISBN 0-85066-843-3.

[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". Retrieved 4 March 2011.

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