Charles C. V. Batts, Mycologist, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, 1951 - 1956.
Lecturer in Plant Pathology, Imperial College of Science, London, 1956 - 1960
German systematic botanist and teacher. Benl was born in Nuremburg and graduated from the University of Munich. He worked as a schoolteacher in Munich from 1934-1973, meanwhile continuing his botanical studies, which focussed on the genus Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) and ferns of tropical West Africa. He was associated with the state herbarium in Munich from 1946.
Mycologist