44 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL MYCOLOGIST. 

 (E. J. Butler, M.B., F.L.S.) 



I. Charge and Establishment. 



Mr. F. J. F. Shaw, B.Sc, A.R.C.S., officiated as 

 Imperial Mycologist until November 16th, 1915, when I 

 resumed charge of the section on return from combined 

 leave. The post of Second Imperial Mycologist was 

 created during the year and filled by Mr. Shaw, Super- 

 numerary Mycologist, on October 19th, 1915. Muham- 

 mad A. Hafiz Khan, 3rd Assistant, was transferred on 

 deputation to the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, 

 with effect from September 22nd, 1915. The vacancy thus 

 created was filled by promotion from the staff, Babu N. C. 

 Sen coming in as second clerk. Five of the staff volun- 

 teered for service in Mesopotamia in connection with the 

 campaign against flies, just before the close of the year, and 

 two of these have since been accepted. All have worked 

 well. 



II. Training and Visitors. 



Babu J. B. Sinha, Fieldman in Mycology, Sabour, 

 completed his course of training at Pusa on September 

 29th, 1915. Babu K. P. Roy, a scholar from the Bengal 

 Department of Agriculture, joined on August 10th, 1915, 

 and finished his course on May 31st, 1916. Mr. Deoki 

 Nandan, B.A., M.R.A.C. and Mr. B. N. Vakil took special 

 courses as private students from May 23rd and between 

 March 15th and April 25th, respectively. Prof. K. C. 

 Mehta, M.Sc, Professor of Botany, Agra College, worked 

 in the section from March 3rd to 26th and Mr. G. S. Kul- 

 karni, Mycological Assistant, Bombay, Department of Agri- 

 culture, from March 23rd to May 24th. Mr. A. C. Tun- 

 stall, Mycologist to the Indian Tea Association, visited the. 

 section from January 15th to 25th, 1916. 



