60 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



fungi in assisting in the decomposition of organic matter. 

 The subject may prove of interest in connection with green 

 manuring, but it is not possible, as yet, to indicate on what 

 lines it will develop. 



A number of minor investigations of diseases of crops 

 and fruit trees are in progress or projected. New work 

 of this nature continually arises and it depends on the time 

 available for their study and the relative importance of 

 the disease as to whether they become major or minor items 

 of the work of the section. 



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

 indicated 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 Pro- 

 vincial 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 in the series 

 " Fungi Indias Orientalis," of which four parts have 

 already been published in collaboration with Messrs. H. & 

 P. Sydow of Berlin, and a fifth is in preparation. The 

 extension of this series to include the groups not yet dealt 

 with is the most important part of the systematic work of 

 the section and is very necessary. Minor papers on syste- 

 matic mycology will also, probably, be published. 



VII. — Publications. 



Butler, E. J. . . . TTfra disease of Rice. Agri. Journ., 



India, VIII, July, 1913 (also Bengali 

 translation). 



Butler, E. J. . . . Diseases of Rice. Bull. Agri., Res. 



Inst., Pusa, No. 34, 1913. 



Butler, E. J. . . . Tikka disease and the introduction of 



exotic groundnuts in Bombay Presi- 

 dency. Agri. Journ., India, IX, Janu- 

 ary, 1914. 



Butler, E. J. . . . Notes on some rusts in India. Annales 



Mycologici, XII, 1914. 



