INSTITUTE AND COLLEGE, PUSA, FOR 1909-10. 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, AGRICULTURAL 

 RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND COLLEGE, PUSA, 

 FOR THE YEAR 1909-1910. 



(E. J. BUTLER, M.B., F.L.S.) 



1. Charge of Office. — Mr. B. Coventry held charge of 

 the office of Director up to the 9th May 1910, with the 

 exception of one month in September- October 1909, when 

 he was on privilege leave and Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy, 

 M.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Imperial Entomologist, acted for him 

 during his absence in addition to his own duties. In 

 consequence of his appointment as Officiating Inspector 

 General of Agriculture in India, Mr. Coventry relin- 

 quished charge of the office of Director on the 9th May 

 1910, and I was appointed to officiate for him in addition 

 to my own duties. 



2. Staff.— Dv. J. Walter Leather, Ph.D., F.I.C., F.C.S., 

 Imperial Agricultural Chemist, returned from leave on 

 the 27th October 1909 and took over charge of the chemical 

 section from Mr. H. E. Annett. The latter has been 

 deputed to act as Agricultural Chemist, United Provinces, 

 from the 3rd November 1909. The charge of the mycolo- 

 gical section was taken over by me from Mr. W. McRae, 

 M.A., B.Sc, on the 27th December 1909, when I returned 

 from leave, and immediately after Mr. McRae proceeded 

 to Madras to join his new appointment as Mycologist to 

 the Government of Madras. His successor, Mr. F. J. F. 

 Shaw, B. Sc, A.R.C.S., joined his appointment as Super- 

 numerary Mycologist on the 28th January 1910. Mr. 

 C. W. Mason, Supernumerary Entomologist, left the 

 Department on the 19th December 1909, and Mr. T. Bain- 

 brigge-Fletcher, R.N., F.E.S., joined this Institute as 

 Supernumerary Entomologist on the 8th April 1910. The 

 Second Imperial Entomologist, Mr. F. M. Howlett, B.A., 

 F.E.S., has been on leave since the 9th September 1909 and 



