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IV. — Systematic Work. 



The additions to the herbarium continued steadily, the 

 total number of mounted sheets added being 780. Most of 

 these were Indian, the most important outside contribu- 

 tions being from Berlin and Manilla- A considerable num- 

 ber of parasitic fungi were named for the college collec- 

 tions of the Provincial Departments of Agriculture, for 

 other colleges, and for the Forest Research Institute. 

 Large collections of Indian fungi were distributed to in- 

 terested persons. The Hypocreacece of our collections were 

 kindly named by Mr. T. Petch, Government Mycologist, 

 Ceylon. The perfect stages of the rusts of sugarcane, 

 cotton and fig were discovered during the year and will be 

 described shortly. Mr. Shaw has commenced the system- 

 atic study of some soil fungi. 



V. — Programme of work for 1913-14. 



(1) Research and experimental work. — The continued 

 investigation of the disease of paddy, known as ufra in 

 Bengal, will be regarded as the most important individual 

 item of the work of the section. Other diseases of paddy 

 will be studied as occasion arises. 



Of sugarcane diseases, the study of which will be con- 

 tinued, the most important in view is the sereh-like disease 

 at Jorhat and elsewhere. It is hoped to ascertain definitely 

 whether it is caused by a fungus, and, if so, whether it is 

 identical with a new disease of which an account will 

 shortly be published. 



The wilt diseases of cotton and sesamum are major 

 diseases, the investigation of which will be continued. 



The work on potato blight may also require to be 

 treated as an investigation of importance, if the disease 

 again recurs, and the same applies to the opium poppy 

 blight, referred to in the body of the report. 



Besides the investigation of the last-mentioned disease, 

 Mr. Shaw may be able, on his return from Madras, to 

 progress with his sutdy of some green parasites, of which 



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