48 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL MYCOLOGIST. 

 (F. J. F. Shaw, B.Sc, A.R.C.S., F.L.S.) 



I. — Charge and Establishment. 



Dr. Butler held charge of the section until 28th March 

 1914, when he proceeded on privilege leave and furlough; 

 since this date I have been in charge of the section. I was 

 absent on duty in Madras up to 31st October 1913, when 

 Mr. McRae, Government Mycologist, Coimbatore, returned 

 from leave. 



S. Pasupati Iyer, second clerk, resigned to take up the 

 Sericultural course on 22nd November 1913, and Nripendra 

 Chandra Sen filled the vacancy thus caused until 26th 

 March 1914, when Md. Taslim was appointed. All the 

 staff have worked well. 



II. — Training. 



Mr. A. C. Tunstall, Mycologist to the Indian Tea 

 Association, worked in the laboratory as a visitor for about 

 a week in September and Mr. G. H. Alington, I.F.S., 

 Assistant to Forest Botanist, was deputed to study some 

 tree diseases in January. Babu B. L. Gupta, B.Sc, 

 Professor of Biology in the Reid Christian College, 

 Lucknow, attended the laboratory during May and June 

 and received a course of lectures and practical work on the 

 morphology of the fungi. 



III. — Diseases of Plants. 



The investigation of the diseases of crops, the collection 

 and identification of Indian fungi, and the giving of advice 

 to cultivators and officers of the Department formed the 

 principal work of the section. 



(1) Paddy Disease. — The most serious disease of 



paddy is that which is known in Eastern Bengal as 



' ufra." An account of this trouble has been published in 



