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logical Society,’ etc. Dr. Plowright did not ignore the 
economic aspect of his favourite study. For thirty years he 
was a contributor to the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ principally 
upon the diseases of plants caused by fungi ; and in 1891 he 
drew attention to the use of Bordeaux mixture, in France, as 
a preventative of vine diseases, and recommended its adoption 
in this country as a means of preventing disease in potatoes. 
Australia sought his advice on diseases of wheat, and India on 
diseases of the tea plant. From 1890 to 1894 Dr. Plowright 
was Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and 
Physiology in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and 
delivered a course of lectures on the action of fungi on the 
human body. 
Dr. Plowright was one of the last of the band of mycologists 
who assembled each year and exchanged ideas at the once 
famous Fungus Foray, held by the Woolhope Club. There he 
“ was always noted for his advanced ideas and his endeavours 
to elevate mycology from the old Friesian rut in which at 
the time it was firmly imbedded ” ( Nature , May 5th, 1910). 
In later years, he attended from time to time, the forays of 
the Societe Mycologique de France, the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union, the Essex Field Club, and the British Mycological 
Society, always ready to hand on to the rising generation of 
Mycologists that knowledge of fungi which cannot be obtained 
from books. In 1896, he assisted in the inauguration of the 
British Mycological Society, of which he was elected President 
for the years 1898 and 1899. Throughout the whole of his 
career, he carried on an active correspondence with the 
leading mycologists at home and abroad, including Messrs. 
C. E. Broome, F. Currey, M. C. Cooke, W. G. Smith, Rev. 
M. J. Berkeley, Baron F. von Thiimen, Dr. L. Rabenhorst, 
M. Boudier, Dr. P. Magnus, Dr. G. Winter, Professor Fallow. 
Professor P. A. Saccardo, etc. In his later years, every 
British student of mycology sought his advice, and his 
correspondence was such that one can only marvel how he 
managed to cope with it in the intervals of a busy professional 
life. 
Although he did so much for Mycology, he was still 
