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Indian fungi, of which more than a hundred were new to 

 science. An account of an interesting aquatic fungus was 

 also published. The total number of mounted sheets added 

 to the herbarium was 779. 



6. Miscellaneous. — I attended the meetings of a com- 

 mittee appointed to consider the question of preventing the 

 importation of noxious insects and plant diseases into India, 

 held at Pusa in November. It is greatly to be desired that 

 action in this direction should be taken without delay. The 

 measures recommended last year for checking the spread 

 of lantana, a noxious weed in Mysore and Coorg, are under 

 consideration and further information has been supplied 

 to the authorities concerned. The section fitted up a stall 

 at the Tirhut Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition held 

 at Pusa in January, w^hich was well attended. Assistance 

 was given to the Government College, Lahore, in providing 

 material and notes for teaching elementary mycology. An 

 outbreak of dodder in clover was reported from Peshawar 

 and recommendations for its suppression were made. I 

 wrote the chapter on Mycology for the Annual Report of the 

 Board of Scientific Advice for the year 1910-11. 



7- Programme of work for 1912-13. 



(7) Research and experimental tvork. — The investiga- 

 tion of the disease of paddy known as ufra in Bengal will 

 be continued. Other diseases of paddy will be taken up as 

 opportunity occurs. 



Work on susrar-cane diseases will be continued. The 

 disease which has appeared on the Jorhat Farm will be 

 specially studied with a view to determining whether it is 

 sereh. 



It is proposed to examine the wilt diseases of cotton and 

 sesame, in the Central Provinces, with a view to ascertain- 

 ing their causes. 



It is hoped to conclude the investigation of two species 

 of Phytophthora and the diseases of castor and Colocasia 

 caused by them. 



