Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller FRSC FRS
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, c.1900
Born	(1874-08-19)19 August 1874 Moseley, Birmingham, England
Died	3 July 1944(1944-07-03) (aged 69) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Nationality	English
Citizenship	British-Canadian
Alma mater	Mason College The University of Birmingham Queen's College, Taunton University of Leipzig University of Munich
Awards	1851 Research Fellowship (1898–1901) Royal Medal (1937) Flavelle Medal (1929) Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields	Mycology, Botany
Institutions	University of Birmingham University of Manitoba
Doctoral advisor	Robert Hartig, University of Munich and Wilhelm Pfeffer, University of Liepzig
Author abbrev. (botany)	Buller

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, FRSC, FRS (19 August 1874 – 3 July 1944) was a British-Canadian mycologist. He is mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust.

Academic career

Mason College, now the University of Birmingham

Born in Moseley, Birmingham, England, he was educated at Queen's College, Taunton. He then studied at Mason College, which later became the University of Birmingham, (B.Sc. in 1896), the University of Leipzig (Ph.D.), and the University of Munich. He was awarded a D.Sc. by the University of Birmingham. He worked briefly for the Naples Zoological Station. From 1901 to 1904, he was a lecturer in Botany at the University of Birmingham. He came to Canada in 1904, founded the Botany Department and was the first Professor of Botany and Geology at the University of Manitoba, and served as Head of the Botany Department until his retirement in 1936.

Poetry

He also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch, including this one on Einstein's special theory of relativity:

There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She started one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

A. H. Reginald Buller in Punch (19 December 1923): 591.

Honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in 1909, and became its President in 1927. In 1929, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal. In 1937, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). He was a life member of the Mycological Society of America.

He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, University of Calcutta, University of Manitoba, and University of Pennsylvania. The Buller Building at the University of Manitoba, built in 1932, is named in his honour.