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2. Training. — Nine students in all received instruction 

 during the year. Of these two were second year students 

 undergoing the full course. Their training ended on 

 March 31st, 1910. Three were members of the Punjab 

 Agricultural Department and received elementary instruc- 

 tion as part of a general agricultural course. As the Pro- 

 vincial Colleges are now in a position to teach elementary 

 mycology, it is not expected that any more students of this 

 class will be received. The student under training as 

 Mycological Collector for Eastern Bengal finished his 

 course on March 2nd, 1910. A Forest Ranger was deputed 

 from the Punjab for an elementary training in the diseases 

 of fruit and forest trees, and a private student from Oudh 

 received a short course in fruit and vegetable diseases. 

 Only one student (private) joined for the full two years' 

 course at the beginning of the new term, June 1st, 1910, 

 and he has since abandoned it. The three senior students 

 took up about half my time in January, February, March 

 and June, chiefly in the preparation of the lectures. 



3. Accommodation. — The capacity of the general 

 laboratory for students and assistants has been taxed at 

 times, especially when several have been simultaneously 

 engaged in original work. For a time eleven were working 

 in the one room, which is too many for the space available. 

 A portion of the clerk's room has been fitted to relieve pres- 

 sure in the laboratory. The chief requirement at present 

 is a small outside room with enclosure attached for inocu- 

 lation and pot-culture experiments. The herbarium has 

 been largely added to (364 named sheets), and has ample 

 space for subsequent expansion in a room on the 1st floor. 

 Improvements were made in the sterilising and culture 

 rooms. 



4. Aid to Provincial Departments. -^Collections of 

 named fungi, chiefly parasitic, have been furnished to the 

 Madras, Punjab, Bengal and Eastern Bengal and Assam 

 Departments. Duplicate collections made in Bombay and 

 Burma have been identified as far as possible and the deter- 

 minations forwarded to these Departments. This work 



