INSTITUTE AND COLLEGE, PUSA, FOR 1907-09. ^ 



India. Duplicate collections will be as far as possible 

 supplied to provincial departments which already have 

 mycological assistants. 



The fungi hitherto recorded from India have been in 

 great part identified, and the information has been made 

 readily accessible. 



The research work includes the examination of the life- 

 history and general biology of parasites and their effects 

 on the attacked plants. 



The wilt diseases of cotton, indigo, pigeon pea and gram 

 were selected for special study, and the results already 

 obtained will largely help Indian agriculture. A memoir 

 on the work is now in the press. The experiments at the 

 Poona farm to raise a strain of pigeon pea resistant to 

 the wilt disease, have been in progress for four years and 

 are promising well. 



Renewed experiments were made to elucidate the 

 methods of infection of the red-rot disease of sugarcane 

 which in India has been for a considerable period a very 

 disastrous disease to this important crop. It is hoped 

 that the new results will be published during the year, and 

 advice of importance given. The study of the life-history 

 of other sugarcane parasites has not yet reached the 

 publication stage. 



Dr. Butler inspected the palm disease operations in 

 the Godavari delta in September and December 1907 and 

 in January 1909. Successful inoculations with the para- 

 site were secured during 1908, and a further study of its 

 life-history was made. The campaign against this disease 

 has been particularly successful, and is still being pro- 

 secuted earnestly by means of the special staff sanctioned 

 by the Madras Government. I must note the fact that the 

 results of this enquiry by Dr. Butler are so valuable to 

 India that they are equivalent to saving the cost of his 

 section to India for many years to come. 



The Imperial Mycologist visited Travancore in Sep- 

 tember and October 1907 to investigate^ the cocoanut palm 



