Arthur Disbrowe Cotton

Arthur Disbrowe Cotton, OBE VMH FLS (15 January 1879 – 27 December 1962)[1] was an English plant pathologist, mycologist, phycologist, and botanist.

Cotton remained at Kew till 1915, officially working on algae, but also making time to pursue his particular interest in clavarioid fungi.

Vallentine supplied Cotton with numerous specimens enabling him to undertake the first comprehensive study of Cryptogams from the Falkland Islands.

[3][4] In 1915 he took charge of a newly established Plant Pathology Laboratory at Kew (later moved to the Rothamsted Experimental Station) and in 1920 became Mycologist to the Board of Agriculture.

[1] During his career he published a number of papers on plant pathology, fungi, and algae, as well as co-authoring, with Arthur Grove, the first seven parts of the supplement to Elwes' Monograph of the genus Lilium.