INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1917-18 71 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL MYCOLOGIST. 



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



I. Charge and Establishment. 



Dr. Butler held charge of the Section throughout the 

 year and I remained as Second Imperial Mycologist. On 

 8th July, 1918, Dr. Butler proceeded on deputation to the 

 Federated Malay States and handed over charge of the office 

 to me, hence I am writing this report. It is with deep 

 regret that I have to record the death, on 1st March, 1018, 

 of Munshi Inayet Khan, Third Assistant to the Imperial 

 Mycologist. Munshi Inayet Khan was the oldest assistant 

 in the Section and had been with Dr. Butler from its com- 



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mencement ; his record of service was, however, considerably 

 longer as he served with Mr. Duthie in the Botanical 

 Survey of India and held the Hazara (1888), Relief of 

 Chitral (1895), Punjab Frontier (1897-98), and Tirah (1897- 

 98) medals for plant collecting service on these expeditions. 

 Of late years he held charge of the mycological herbarium 

 . at Pusa and the accurate knowledge of systematic botany, 

 which he had acquired by many years of practical experi- 

 ence, was always of the greatest utility in the work of the 

 laboratory; in this direction his loss is one which we can 

 hardly hope to replace. Throughout his service he remained 

 an example of loyalty and efficiency to all his fellows. 



II. Training. 

 Lala Kripa Ram, L.Ag., Assistant to the Economic 

 Botanist, Punjab, finished his course of training on 25th 

 September, 1917. Mr. B. N. Vakil, a private student, 

 worked in the Section from 19th November, 1917 to 29th 

 June, 1918. Mr. M. Mitra joined the Section on 15th 

 June, 1918. 



III. Diseases of Plants. 

 The investigation and the demonstration of methods of 

 control of plant diseases formed as usual the major part of 



