52 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL MYCOLOGIST. 



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

 I. Charge and Establishment. 



I held charge of the Section throughout the year, and 

 Dr. F. J. F. Shaw, D.Sc, A.R.C.S., F.L.S., remained as 

 Second Imperial Mycologist. Dr. Shaw Avas absent on a 

 course of musketry instruction at Pachmarhi, under the 

 Indian Defence Force Act, during April, 1917. Babu 

 N. N. Muker ji was appointed second clerk in place o-f Babu 

 N. C. Sen, from August 2nd. Mr. S. N. Mitra, Second 

 Assistant, and Babu P. C. Kar, Fieldman, returned from 

 service under the Military Department in Mesopotamia on 

 November 16th and their work in the campaign against flies 

 was well reported on by their superior officers. Dr. Shaw 

 received the degree of D.Sc, for research in Botany, from 

 the London University during the year and Mr. J. F. Das- 

 tur, First Assistant, that of M.Sc, with distinction, in 

 Botany, from the Bombay University. 



II. Training. 



Mr. Deoki Nandan, B.A., M.R.A.C, attended the Sec- 

 tion as a private student up to the end of September. Mr. 

 S. C. Bose, Assistant to the Mycologist, Indian Tea Asso- 

 ciation, was given a special course in laboratory technique 

 from April 16th to May 16th. Lala Kripa Ram, L.Ag., 

 Assistant to the Economic Botanist, Punjab, has been under- 

 going a special course of training since April 18th, 1917. 

 Mr. G. S. Cheema, M.Sc, Research Scholar of the Punjab 

 University, was permitted by the University to commence 

 research work on plant diseases in the Mycological Section 

 at Pusa during the vacation. He remained from June 1st 

 to 27th, 1917. * 



III. Mycological Conference. 



A combined conference of Mycologists and Entomolo- 

 gists was held at Pusa in February. There were joint 



