INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1917-18 5 



Agricultural Bacteriology (including bacteriological 

 technique in silkworm disease) . . . . .5 



Entomology ........ 2 



Sericulture (short course) . . . . . .9 



Besides the regular students, Mr. B. N. Vakil, B.Sc., of 

 St. Xavier's College, Bombay, worked in the Mycological 

 Laboratory for a short period. 



III. Publications. 



During the year under report, 8 Memoirs, 11 Bulletins 

 and 2 Indigo Publications (a special series started to embody 

 the work of the recently created Indigo Section of the 

 Institute) were issued. 



Twelve publications were in the press at the end of the 

 year. 



During the year the proceedings of three conferences 

 were published, viz., the Board of Agriculture, the Second 

 Entomological Meeting, and the First Mycological Meeting. 

 An effort, which it is believed has been appreciated, has 

 been made to make the form of the proceedings of these 

 conferences more attractive. 



The Report of the Proceedings of the Second Ento- 

 mological Meeting held at Pusa in Februarv, 1917, issued 

 in an octavo volume of 340 pages, forms practically an 

 abstract of our current knowledge of Indian crop-pests. 

 There has been a satisfactory demand for it from the public. 



It is gratifying to record that the public demand for the 

 Bulletins of the Institute is increasing every year. A 

 second edition of two bulletins had to be brought out -during 

 the year; the first edition of the bulletin on "New Agri- 

 cultural Implements for India " ran out of stock within 

 three months of its issue. There were also many applicants 

 for the bulletin on Water Hyacinth — that serious pest in 

 Bengal and Burma. This bulletin shows how a definite 

 return can be obtained in the process of exterminating what 

 was previously considered a useless and harmful weed-pest. 

 A large number of copies of the three bulletins regarding 



