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a more precise knowledge than is at present available is 

 greatly required. His work on soil fungi is likely to 

 extend over a considerable period and is not of such im- 

 mediate importance as the other enquiries, but it probably 

 has a bearing on such questions as the decomposition of 

 green manures, and may give valuable results. 



Minor investigations are those of the anthracnoses of 

 plantain and betle pepper, smut of Pennisetum, maize- 

 mildew and further work on diseases of castor. 



(2) Training. — This will be continued on the lines in- 

 dicated in the Prospectus. Short courses will also be given 

 if any students of the Institute wish to attend. 



(3) The routine work of advising on plant diseases will 

 be continued and assistance will be given as usual to the 

 Provincial Departments of Agriculture, the Forest Depart- 

 ment, Planters' Associations and the general public. 



(4) It is hoped to make further progress with the pub- 

 lication of descriptive lists of Indian fungi, and, if time 

 permits, the preparation of a 5th part of " Fungi India? 

 Orientalis " will be taken up. This will be the most im- 

 portant item of the systematic work. 



VI. — Publications. 



1. Preliminary Report on TJfra disease of Rice in Noakhali 



District, E. J. Butler. Bull, of the Bureau of Agricul- 

 tural Intelligence and of Plant-diseases, 3rd year, No. 7, 

 July, 1912, p. 1661. 



2. The Morphology and Parasitism of Rhizoctonia, F. J. F. 



Shaw. Mem. Dept. of Agri., Bot. Ser., IV, No. 6, Sep- 

 tember, 1912. 



3. Anthracnose of Sisal Hemp, F. J. F. Shaw. Agri. Journ. of 



India, VIII, No. 1, January, 1913. 



4. Report on Mycology for 1911-12, E. J. Butler. Annual 



Report of the Board of Scientific Advice, April, 1913. 



5. On Phytophthora parasitica nov. spec, a new disease of the 



Castor oil plant, J. F. Dastur. Mem. Dept. of Agri., 

 India, Bot. Ser., V, No. 4, May, 1913. 



