Scientific Reports of the Agricultural 

 Research Institute, Pusa 



{Including the Report of the Imperial Cotton Specialist) 



1918=19 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 

 (G. A. D. Stuart, I.C.S., and E. J. Butler, M.B., F.L.S.) 



I. Charge and Staff. 



Charge. Mr. J. Mackenna, CLE., I.C.S., held charge 

 of the office of the Agricultural Adviser to the Govern- 

 ment of India and Director, Agricultural Research 

 Institute, Pusa, up to the 2nd October, 1918, and again 

 from the 4th November, 1918, to the 12th April, 1919, 

 when he proceeded on 6 months' privilege leave. Dr. W. 

 H. Harrison acted as Agricultural Adviser and Director 

 from the 3rd October to the 3rd November, 1918, and Mr. 

 G. A. D. Stuart, I.C.S., assumed charge from the 13th 

 April, 1919. 



Dr. E. J. Butler, M.B., F.L.S. , has been appointed Joint 

 Director of the Institute, in addition to his duties as 

 Imperial Mycologist, from the 20th January, 1919, and the 

 appointment of the Assistant to the Agricultural Adviser 

 to the Government of India held by Mr. Wynne Sayer, 

 B.A., has been temporarily placed in abeyance from the 

 same date. 



Staff. Dr. E, J. Butler, M.B., F.L.S., Imperial Myco- 

 logist, was on deputation to the Federated Malay States, 

 to report on the Agricultural Department there, from the 



