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James Robert Weir

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Institutions
  
USDA Ford

Died
  
1943

Role
  
Mycologist

Name
  
James Weir

Author abbrev. (botany)
  
Weir


Thesis
  
Untersuchungen uber die Gattung Coprinus (1911)

Institution
  
United States Department of Agriculture

Alma mater
  
Purdue University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

James Robert Weir (1882–1943) was an American mycologist specializing in wood decaying fungi and forest pathology. He advised Henry Ford on rubber plantations and was head of The U.S. National Fungus Collections.

References

James Robert Weir Wikipedia