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INTRODUCTION. 



It seems unnecessary to repeat that this volume contains 

 the reports of the various scientific workers at Pusa, 

 written in their own words, and that for them each officer 

 is solely and individually responsible. They stand or fall 

 by the verdict on the value of their work passed by workers 

 on the same subjects in the scientific world, and although the 

 misinformed or intentionally vicious criticism to which they 

 were subjected in a certain newspaper last year caused some 

 annoyance, such criticism fortunately does not affect the 

 true estimate of the work which is formed by the scientific 

 world whose opinion is the only one that really counts. 



With regard to the criticism in the article referred to, 

 " that one searches in vain for a clue to the particular aims 

 with which and the manner in which the activities of the 

 ' Imperial scientific sections ' are co-ordinated and directed 

 or what their labours all amount to in the end from the 

 standpoint of Indian Agriculture as a whole," I need only 

 remark that of this Provincial Departments of Agriculture 

 are the best judges nor do I think that they will endorse the 

 views of the newspaper critics. 



The widespread distribution of the Pusa wheats, tobacco 

 and other improved seeds : the solution of various import- 

 ant chemical and bacteriological problems of general appli- 

 cation : the recommendations of mycological and entomo- 

 logical methods of control and prevention are appreciated 

 throughout the provinces by whose verdict and that of other 

 scientific workers of repute we are prepared to stand. 



22 J. MACKENNA, 



Director, Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa. 

 p- Simla, 



<s> 10th Sept., 1918, 



