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Obituary

Geoffrey John Frederick Pugh, 1924–2006: an authorityon decomposition by soil fungi

Geoffrey HADLEY*

Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB9 2UU, UK

a r t i c l e i n f o

Article history:

Received 15 April 2007

Received in revised form

12 June 2008

Accepted 11 August 2008

Corresponding Editor:

David L. Hawksworth

Keywords:

Biodeterioration; British Mycological Society; Fungal ecology; Keratinophilic fungi; Soil fungi

Fig 1 – Geoffrey John Frederich Pug

* Corresponding author.E-mail address: g.hadley@abdn.ac.uk

0953-7562/$ – see front matterdoi:10.1016/j.mycres.2008.08.001

a b s t r a c t

Geoffrey J F Pugh (1924–2006) spent most of his academic career at the Universities of

Nottingham, Aston, and then Portsmouth. He served as President of the British Mycological

Society in 1979. A synopsis of his academic contributions and other activities is presented,

together with a list of his publications.

h (1924–2006).

Geoffrey (‘Geoff’) John Frederick Pugh (Fig. 1) was born on 2

December 1924 and the early years of his life were spent in

Wales. His parents were farmers in Pembrokeshire, and they

played an active part in the agricultural community. At school

Geoff was a very academic pupil and, it seems, was always top

of his class. From that it might have been assumed that he

would go on to University. We have no indication as to whether

the young Geoffrey showed any such interest at that stage, but

for family reasons he left Haverfordwest Grammar School at

the minimum leaving age of 15, to join Barclays Bank.

After two years, and by this time with the war in its world-

wide phase, Geoff volunteered (again, at the minimum age) for

the Royal Air Force. He spent his years in the Forces as

a trained instrument repairer, mostly in India and the east,

until returning home at the end of his posting in 1947. It seems

that a lasting impression of one of the many American Agri-

cultural Centers that were under development in India at

that time prompted him, when back in the UK, to opt for a ca-

reer in agriculture or plant science. Thus, he entered the

University of Wales at Aberystwyth College. At the age of 23

he had the advantage of maturity. and he progressed easily

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into the final year from which he emerged with a First Class

Honours degree in Botany.

By 1951, the prospect of taking up science suddenly became

more appealing, and he successfully applied for a position of

Demonstrator in the Botany Department at Nottingham Uni-

versity, where he came under the influence of the charismatic

Professor Charles G. Chesters. Having started on his own re-

search, Geoff became very focussed by Chesters offering him

a lecturing post if he could complete his PhD thesis within

two years. By working 24/7, as they say in current jargon, as

well as coping with the increasing demands of a young family,

he succeeded, and was appointed as a Lecturer in 1953. He went

on in due course to become a Senior Lecturer, and later Reader.

In the late 1950s, many universities and research institutes

were actively appointing mycologists as a result of the surge of

industrial development, especially the quest for antibiotics in

the post-war ‘penicillin era’. The Government eventually en-

couraged university research (i.e. non teaching posts), albeit

to a limited financial extent, but this put more strain on the

teaching. Despite the demands of teaching courses and the

need to gain experience, Geoff recognized the importance of

developing a wide range of research interests in mycology

and plant pathology. He needed more strings to his bow (or

should that be rhizomorphs?) From the start he regarded him-

self as a fungal ecologist in the broadest sense, with interests

in many topics and a research output that needed to be wide-

ranging and quite prolific.

Geoff’s scientific career thus rose from modest beginnings

after he was appointed at Nottingham, which had been

awarded its Charter in 1948, and where Chesters had been

busy developing several lines of research. The Department of-

fered an MSc in Mycology, breaking into ‘applied’ fields such

as plant pathology. This established a steady flow of research

students. It was a time when the British university system was

entering an active post-war phase of expansion, following the

Robbins Report and the enrichment of higher education. Sci-

ence was a buzzword for the then Government, and the uni-

versities had to seize the opportunity. Geoff was not slow to

respond in a comprehensive way, as can be seen from his

list of publications which encompasses a myriad of topics.

His interest in the mycoecology of soil fungi led Geoff to the

study of unexplored specific habitats such as leaf litter and the

recognition that many individual ‘host’ species supported

their own mycobiota. The comprehensive expansion of this

work into extreme habitats such as coastal salt marsh soils

in Britain, Dutch polder soils and inland marshes, among

others, has contributed much to our total global knowledge

of fungal distribution patterns.

The colonisation of developing leaves and other aerial

parts of plants, i.e. the role of phylloplane fungi, in broad

terms, led also to work on the concept of life strategies which

became a feature of his overall hypothesis. Work on cellulo-

lytic fungi provided links with keratinophilic habitats includ-

ing those found in birds’ nests and thermophilous fungi of

that same habitat.

For several years following his appointment at Notting-

ham, under the watchful eye and steady rule of Chesters,

Geoff was responsible for not only most of the mycology

teaching, but also for courses in other topics within a range

of botanical options. He enhanced the image of botany as

a vigorous, economically important discipline, not only in fun-

gal ecology, but embracing medical mycology within courses

offered at the Nottingham Medical School. At the same time,

he played a substantial part in University administration as

new courses were developed to enhance the status and style

of the involvement of all staff in a structured expansion of

the main topics. For over 20 years he was at the core of the

period of expansion which became a feature of biological

sciences at Nottingham.

When in 1975 he was appointed to the chair of Biological

Sciences at the University of Aston, Geoff took with him

a vast amount of experience which was put to good use in

responding to the challenges of that emerging institution.

He actively initiated a review and reappraisal of teaching, to

enable the existing teaching courses to make economical

use of resources and avoid duplication. During the time he

was there, the emphasis on ‘applied’ courses such as the

effects of agrochemicals on fungi and the side effects of

pesticides – in epidemiological studies – became paramount,

although not without some criticism of the esoteric nature

of that approach.

Geoff maintained a close contact with his colleagues. He

was one of the ‘old school’ of academics, indeed perhaps

one of the last and slowly disappearing members of that ilk,

who became the victims of funding cuts which led to the

devaluation of academics by their institutions.

Apart from teaching, Geoff maintained an interest in na-

tional societies and organisations other than the British

Mycological Society, including the Institute of Tree Biology.

He became involved with the British Antarctic Survey, under

Sir Vivian Fuchs, through his research interests in keratino-

philic fungi. Geoff spent one summer in Antarctica, with

the Survey, working on the decomposition of keratin in the

feathers of Antarctic marine birds. He was also a Fellow of

the Institute of Biology as well as serving on various advisory

committees for national bodies, including the National

Environment Research Council and the Society for General

Microbiology.

When he ‘‘retired’’ from Aston in 1985 at the age of 61,

Geoff was encouraged to take up an appointment as Head of

the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Ports-

mouth, a post which he held until full retirement in 1988. This

was not an easy job, involving reconciling competing inter-

ests, but it reflects the nature of the man, that his enthusiasm

in many ways made him prepared to undertake whatever the

challenge involved.

Throughout his academic career, Geoff retained a capacity

for friendly liaison with his students and he developed a reputa-

tion for being approachable for helpand advice, (amentorahead

of his time perhaps?), not least to foreign students many of

whom were being encouraged to undertake higher degrees

with the expansion of the UK university system at that time.

As a very junior staff member at Nottingham in the late

1950s, I benefited from Geoff’s help in many ways, not only

as regards our mycological interests but also in a material

way when he, seeing an opportunity for a financial transac-

tion, generously offered me his bargain second-hand two-

seater Austin, affectionately known by its WN number plate

as ‘Winnie’. This enabled me, as a learner, to take to the

road at a time when the Suez crisis in 1956, and the national

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need for economies of fuel, allowed learner drivers to dis-

pense with the need for an accompanying qualified, supervi-

sory driver. The deal was struck, costing me an outlay of

only £2.10s (i.e. £2.50 p in current currency), and it consoli-

dated our friendship for life.

Geoff was also a Personal Tutor (or Warden) at Cripps Hall,

part of the residential system, and was involved in liaison

with students in many ways such as Staff-student Commit-

tees, and as an Examiner, in which role he acted for nearly

twenty universities in the UK and elsewhere. He made many

working visits to foreign academic establishments and was

an outstanding ambassador for mycology. He was awarded

a University of Wales DSc in 1967.

After he joined the BMS he served our society variously as

a Council member (twice), as an editor of the Transactions, then

later as President-elect before becoming President in 1979.

Those present at his Presidential Address must surely have

witnessed the only occasion on which the Society endured

the Annual General Meeting, and then enjoyed the address

and finally relished the products of fungi in the form of red

wine and Stilton blue cheese, served after the event.

Geoff was a generous family man and in later years he

spent many happy holidays at his beloved retreat near Aber-

ystwyth. In retirement he was an avid traveller and one of

his favourite pastimes with Bridget , his wife, was narrow

boat cruising on the canals of Europe. He also spent regular

holidays with relatives in France and often during autumn

visits went on local forays, sometimes reporting his more

unusual finds for inclusion in Field Mycology.

He died on 23 February 2006, and the Society will be the

poorer for his passing, at a time when many of his papers still

command numerous citations. He is survived by his wife

Bridget and four children.

f u r t h e r r e a d i n g

Publications are listed chronologically

Pugh GJF, 1954a. Biological studies of fungi developing on Carex pani-culata L. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Pugh GJF, 1954b. Leaf litter fungi found on Carex paniculata.Transactions of the British Mycological Society 41: 185–195.

Pugh GJF, Sewell GWF, 1958. Ecology of soil fungi. Nature 182:1559–1560.

Pugh GJF, 1960. The fungal flora of tidal mud-flats. In:Parkinson D, Waid JS (eds), The Ecology of Soil Fungi. LiverpoolUniversity Press, Liverpool, pp. 202–208.

Turner M, Pugh GJF, 1961. Species of Mortierella from a salt marsh.Transactions of the British Mycological Society 44: 243–252.

Pugh GJF, 1961. Fungal colonization of a developing salt marsh.Nature 190: 1032–1033.

Pugh GJF, 1962a. Studies on fungi in coastal soils. I. Cercosporasalina Sutherland. Transactions of the British Mycological Society45: 255–260.

Pugh GJF, 1962b. Studies on fungi in coastal soils. II. Fungalecology in a developing salt marsh. Transactions of the BritishMycological Society 45: 560–566.

Pugh GJF, Mathison GE, 1962. Studies on fungi in coastal soils III.Transactions of the British Mycological Society 45: 567–572.

Eggins HOW, Pugh GJF, 1962. Isolation of cellulose-decomposingfungi from the soil. Nature 193: 94–95.

Pugh GJF, 1963. Ecology of fungi in developing coastal soils. In:Doeksen J, van der Drift J (eds), Soil Organisms. North HollandPublishing, Amsterdam, pp. 439–445.

Pugh GJF, Blakeman JP, Morgan-Jones G, 1963. Studies on fungi incoastal soils. IV. Cellulose-decomposing species in sanddunes. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 46: 565–571.

Stewart WDP, Pugh GJF, 1963. Blue-green algae of a developingsalt marsh. Journal of the Marine Biology Association of the UnitedKingdom 403: 309–317.

Pugh GJF, 1964a. Dispersal of Arthroderma curreyi by birds and itsrole in the soil. Sabouraudia 3: 275–278.

Pugh GJF, 1964b. An investigation of soil-borne cellulose-decom-posing fungi in Greece. Annales de l’Institut PhytopathologiqueBenaki New Series Vol. 7.

Pugh GJF, Nicot J, 1964. Studies on fungi in coastal soils. V. Den-dryphiella salina (Sutherland) comb. nov. Transactions of theBritish Mycological Society 47: 263–267.

Pugh GJF, Blakeman JP, Morgan-Jones G, 1964. Thermomyces ver-rucosus sp. nov. and T. languginosus. Transactions of the BritishMycological Society 47: 115–121.

Pugh GJF, 1965a. Cellulolytic and keratinophilic fungi recorded onbirds. Sabouraudia 4: 85–91.

Pugh GJF, 1965b. Fungal contamination of autumn migrants.Bardsey Observatory Reports 12: 19–21.

Pugh GJF, 1965c. Fungi recorded on birds from Skokholm.Skokholm Observatory Reports 20: 21–24.

Pugh GJF, Dickinson CH, 1965a. Studies on fungi in coastal soils.VI. Gliocladium roseum Bainer. Transactions of the British Myco-logical Society 48: 279–285.

Pugh GJF, Dickinson, CH, 1965b. Fungal colonisation of seedlingroots of Halimione portulacoides growing under natural condi-tions. In: Macura J, Mancura V (eds), Plant Microbe Relationships.Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences,Prague.

Dickinson CH, Pugh GJF, 1965a. The mycoflora associated withHalimione portulacoides. I. Establishment of root surface flora ofmature plants. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 48:381–390.

Dickinson CH, Pugh GJF, 1965b. The mycoflora associated withHalimione portulacoides. 2 The establishment of the root surfacefungi of mature and excised plants. Transactions of the BritishMycological Society 48: 595–602.

Dickinson CH, Pugh GJF, 1965c. Use of a selective cellulose agarfor isolation of soil fungi. Nature 207: 440–441.

Pugh GJF, 1966a. Cellulose-decomposing fungi isolated from soilsnear Madras. Journal of the Indian Botanical Society 45: 232–241.

Pugh GJF, 1966b. Associations between birds nests, their pH andkeratinophilic fungi. Sabouraudia 5: 49–53.

Pugh GJF, 1966c. Fungi in birds in India. Journal of the IndianBotanical Society 45: 296–303.

Apinis AE, Pugh GJF, 1967. Thermophilous fungi of birds’ nests.Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 33: 1–4.

Pugh GJF, 1967. Root colonisation by fungi. In: Graff O, Satchell JE(eds), Progress in Soil Biology. North Holland Publishing,Amsterdam, pp. 21–26.

Pugh GJF, Williams GM, 1968. Fungi associated with Salsola kali.Transactions of the British Mycological Society 51: 389–396.

Pugh GJF, 1969. Some problems in the classification of soilfungi. In: Sheals JG (ed), The Soil Ecosystem. [SystematicAssociation Publication No.8.] Systematics Association,London, pp. 119–130.

Pugh GJF, van Emden JH, 1969. Cellulose-decomposing fungi inpolder soils and their possible influence on pathogenic fungi.Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 75: 287–295.

Pugh GJF, 1970. A study of fungi in the rhizosphere and on theroot surfaces of plants growing in primitive soils. In:Phillipson J (ed), Methods of Study in Soil Ecology. UNESCO, Paris,pp. 159–164.

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Pugh GJF, Evans MD, 1970a. Keratinophilic fungi associated withbirds. I. Fungi isolated from feathers, nests and soils. Trans-actions of the British Mycological Society 4: 233–240.

Pugh GJF, Evans MD, 1970b. Keratinophilic fungi associated withbirds II. Physiological studies. Transactions of the British Myco-logical Society 54: 241–250.

Buckley NG, Pugh GJF, 1971. Auxin production by phylloplanefungi. Nature 231: 332.

Pugh GJF. 1971a. A consideration of factors which affect theecology of keratinophilic fungi. In: Proceedings, SymposiumHuman & Animal Mycology. Paris, pp. 88–89.

Pugh GJF, 1971b. Factors which influence the early colonization oforganic matter by fungi. In: Organismes du Sol et productionprimaire. IVth International Colloquim for Soil Zoology. InstitiutNational de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, pp. 319–327.

Pugh GJF, Mulder JL, 1971. Mycoflora associated with Typha lati-folia. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 57: 273–282.

Pugh GJF, Buckley NG, 1971a. The leaf surface as a substratefor colonization by fungi. In: Preece TF, Dickinson CH (eds),Ecology of Leaf Surface Micro-organisms. Academic Press,London, pp. 431–445.

Pugh GJF, Buckley NG, 1971b. Aureobasidium pullulans: an endo-phyte in sycamore and other trees. Transactions of the BritishMycological Society 57: 227–231.

Pugh GJF, Williams JI, 1971. Effect of an organo-mercury fungicideon saprophytic fungi and on litter decomposition. Transactionsof the British Mycological Society 57: 164–166.

Williams JI, Pugh GJF, 1971. Fungal Biological Flora 1. Gliomastix-murorum and G. murorum var. felina. International Biodeteriora-tion Bulletin 7: 35–36.

Pugh GJF, 1972. Contamination of brds’ feathers by fungi. Ibis114: 172.

Pugh GJF, Buckley NG, Mulder J, 1972. The role of phylloplanefungi in the early colonisation of leaves. Symposia BiologicaHungarica 11: 329–333.

Williams JI, Pugh GJF, Morris B, 1972. Consideration of some of thefactors responsible for fibre accumulation on golf coursegreens at Wollaton, Nottingham. Journal of the Sports TurfResearch Institute 48: 3–12.

Pugh GJF, 1973. Saprophytic fungi and seeds. In: Heydecker W(ed), Seed Ecology. Butterworths, London, pp. 337–345.

Wainwright M, Pugh GJF, 1973. The effect of three fungicides onnitrification and ammonification in soil. Soil Biology andBiochemistry 5: 577–584.

Dickinson CH, Pugh GJF (eds), 1974. Biology of Plant Litter Decom-position, 2 vols, Academic Press, London.

Pugh GJF, 1974a. Terrestrial fungi. In: Dickinson CH, Pugh GJF(eds), Biology of Plant Litter Decomposition Academic Press,London, pp. 303–336.

Pugh GJF, 1974b. Fungi in intertidal regions. Veroeffentlichungen desInstituts fuer Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven, Supplement 5:403–418.

Wainwright M, Pugh GJF, 1974. Effect of fungicides on certainchemical and microbial properties of soils. Soil Biology & Bio-chemistry 6: 263–267.

Williams JI, Pugh GJF, 1974. Fungal Biological Flora – Chrysospo-rium-pannorum (Link) Hughes 1958. International BiodeteriorationBulletin 10: 75–80.

Pugh GJF, Lindsey BI, 1975. Studies of Sporobolomyces in a maritimehabitat. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 65: 201–209.

Wainwright M, Pugh GJF, 1975a. Changes in the free amino acidcontent of soil following treatment with fungicides. Soil Biologyand Biochemistry 7: 1–4.

Wainwright M, Pugh GJF, 1975b. Phenol auxins and Erlich reactorsin soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 7: 287–289.

Wainwright M, Pugh GJF, 1975c. Effect of fungicides on thenumbers of micro-organisms and frequency of cellulolyticfungi in soils. Plant and Soil 43: 561–572.

Pugh GJF, Hughes GC, 1975. Epistolae mycologicae V. Keratino-philic fungi from British Columbia coastal habitats. Syesis 8:297–300.

Pugh GJF, Williams JI, 1975. Resistance of Chrysosporium pannorumto an organomercury fungicide. Transactions of the BritishMycological Society 64: 255–263.

Pugh GJF, Williams JI, Wainwright M, 1975. The effects offungicides on microbial activities in the soil. In: Vanek J (ed),Progress in Soil Zoology, Proceedings of the 5th InternationalColloqium on Soil Zoology held in Prague 1973. Academia, Prague,pp. 489–496.

Ibbotson R, Pugh GJF, 1975. Use of the fluorescent antibodytechnique for the evaluation of Arthroderma uncinatum in soil.Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 56: 119–123.

Lindsey BI, Pugh GJF, 1976a. Succession of microfungi on attachedleaves of Hippophae rhamnoides. Transactions of the BritishMycological Society 67: 61–67.

Lindsey BI, Pugh GJF, 1976b. Distribution of microfungi over thesurfaces of attached leaves of Hippophae rhamnoides. Transac-tions of the British Mycological Society 67: 427–433.

Pugh GJF, 1976. Have You Thanked a Fungus Today? [InauguralLecture.] University of Aston in Birmingham, Birmingham.

Kuthubutheen AJJ, Pugh GJF, 1977a. The effects of fungicides onthe growth rates of thermophilous fungi. Mycopathologia 62:67–76.

Kuthubutheen AJJ, Pugh GJF, 1977b. The effects of fungicides onthe occurrence of thermophilous leaf-surface fungi. Mycopa-thologia 62: 131–141.

Kuthubutheen AJJ, Pugh GJF, 1978. Effects of fungicides onphysiology of phylloplane fungi. Transactions of the BritishMycological Society 71: 261–269.

Pugh GJF, 1979. The distribution of fungi in coastal regions. In:Jefferies RL, Davy AJ (eds), Ecological Processes in Coastal Environ-ments. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, pp. 415–427.

Apinis AE, Pugh GJF, 1979. Thermophilous fungi in Southern In-dia. Phytocoenologia 6: 152–165.

Smith SN, Pugh GJF, 1979. Evaluation of dehydrogenase as a suit-able indicator of soil microflora activity. Enzyme and MicrobialTechnology 1 (4): 279–281.

Pugh GJF, Kuthubutheen AJ, 1979. The effects of fungicides oncellulose and starch hydrolysis by thermophilous and meso-philic fungi. Journal of Thermal Biology 4: 23–28.

Kuthubutheen AJJ, Pugh GJF, 1979a. Effects of temperature andfungicides on Chrysisporium pannorum (Link) Hughes. Antonievan Leeuwenhoek 45: 65–79.

Kuthubutheen AJJ, Pugh GJF, 1979b. Effects of fungicides on As-pergillus fumigatus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 45: 303–312.

Kuthubutheen AJJ, Pugh GJF, 1979c. The effects of fungicides on soilfungal populations. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 11: 297–303.

Kuthubutheen AJ, Pugh GJF, 1979d. Effects of fungicides ongermination of thermophilous fungi. Transactions of the BritishMycological Society 73: 373–376.

Pugh GJF, 1980. Strategies in fungal ecology [Presidential Ad-dress.]. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 75: 1–14.

Pugh GJF, MacDonald MJ, 1980. Growth of basidiomycetes in thepresence of agrochemicals. In: Dindall D (ed), Soil Biology asRelated to Land Use Practices. NY State University, New York,pp. 25–33.

Pugh GJF, Beeftink WG, 1980. Fungi in coastal and inland saltmarshes. Botanica Marina 22: 651–656.

Pugh GJF, 1981. The effects of agrochemicals on microbial pro-cesses in soil. In: Proceedings of the 4th Malaysian MicrobiologySymposium. Butterworths, London, pp. 1–3.

Pugh GJF, Smith SN, 1981. Evaluation of the effects of biocides onsoil microbial biomass and activity. Journal of the Science of Foodand Agriculture 32: 627–628.

Pugh GJF, Allsopp D, 1982. Microfungi on Signy Island, SouthOrkney Islands. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 57: 55–67.

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Hurst JL, Pugh GJF, 1982. Fungi on plants and plant litter on SouthGeorgia. Comite National Francais deRecherches Antarctiques 51:249–256.

Ogbonna CIC, Pugh GJF, 1982. Nigerian soil fungi. Nova Hedwigia36: 795–808.

Ogbonna CIC, Pugh GJF, Eggins HOW, 1982. The degradation of treebark by thermophilic and thermotolerant fungi from Nigerianmunicipal compost. International Biodeterioration Bulletin 18: 23–24.

Ogbonna CIC, Pugh GJF, 1983a. Nigerian soil fungi. Nova Hedwigia37: 347–359.

Ogbonna CIC, Pugh GJF, 1983b. Thermophilic and thermotolerantfungi from Nigeria. International Biodeterioration Bulletin 19: 69–75.

Hurst JL, Pugh GJF, Walton DWH, 1983. Fungal succession andsubstrate utilization on the leaves of three South Georgiaphanerogams. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 58: 89–100.

Hurst JL, Pugh GJF, 1983. Association between Chrysosporiumpannorum and Mucor hiemalis in Poa flabellata litter. Transactionsof the British Mycological Society 81: 151–153.

Pugh GJF, Smith SN, 1983. Fungicides, fungal potential and soilmicrobiology. In: Woodbine M (ed), 4th International Symposiumon Antibiotics in Agriculture. Butterworths, London, pp. 81–91.

Smith SN, Pugh GJF, 1983. Perturbations in soil microbial activitycaused by agrochemicals. In: Woodbine M (ed), 4th Interna-tional Symposium on Antibiotics in Agriculture. Butterworths,London, pp. 63–80.

Pugh GJF, Agrawal SC, 1983. Sensitivity of Trichophyton ajelloi tosome common agrochemicals. Mycopathologia 81: 117–121.

Garg AP, Smith SN, Pugh GJF, 1984. An improved technique toincorporate oils and fats into culture media. Transactions of theBritish Mycological Society 83: 356–358.

Hurst JL, Pugh GJF, Walton DW, 1984. The effect of temperature onthe growth of Candida saki isolated from the leaves of a sub-antarctic grass. Microbial Ecology 10: 89–93.

Garg AP, Smith SN, Pugh GJF, 1985a. Inhibition of growth ofkeratinophylic fungi by oils and fatty acids. Transactions of theBritish Mycological Society 85: 367–370.

Garg AP, Gandotra S, Mukerji KG, Pugh GJF, 1985b. Ecology ofkeratinophilic fungi. Proceedings of the Indian Academy ofSciences-Plant Sciences 94: 149–163.

Hurst JL, Pugh GJF, Walton DWH, 1985. The effects of freeze-thaw cycles and leaching on the loss of soluble carbohy-drates from leaf material of 2 sub-antarctic plants. PolarBiology 4: 27–31.

Openheim D, Pugh GJF, 1987. A checklist of marine diatoms foundon wood blocks exposed in the littoral environment of SignyIsland, South Orkney Islands. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin77: 167–171.

Ogbonna CIC, Pugh GJF, 1987. Keratiniphilic fungi from Nigeriansoil. Mycopathologia 99: 115–118.

Pugh GFJ, Boddy L, 1988. A view of disturbance and life strat-egies in fungi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh94B: 3–11.

Pugh GJF, 1993. CGC Chesters – Obituary. Mycological Research 97:1023–1024.