58 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL MYCOLOGIST. 

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



I. Charge and Establishment. 



I held charge of the Section throughout the year, except 

 for the period from 1st May to 17th June, 1920, when I 

 was appointed sub. pro-tempore Agricultural Adviser to 

 the Government of India and Director of the Agricultural 

 Research Institute, Pusa. Mr. G. P. Hector, Officiating 

 Imperial Economic Botanist, held charge during this 

 period. The work as Joint Director was unusually heavy 

 last year owing to the development of proposals for the ex- 

 pansion of the Agricultural Research Institute and the re- 

 vision of pay of establishments due to changed conditions 

 after the war, and left little time for mycological work. 

 The Section further suffered by the absence of Mr. Dastur, 

 Supernumerary Mycologist, on deputation to England from, 

 the end of August 1919, and of Dr. Shaw, Second Im- 

 perial Mycologist, on leave from 5th February, 1920. 



Towards the end of the year I was appointed Director 

 of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology in London, and leave 

 shortly to take up this post, Mr. W. McRae, Government 

 Mycologist, Madras, succeeding me as Imperial Mycologist. 



Mr. M. Mitra, M.Sc, who entered the Section as a 

 private student last year, was appointed First Assistant, 

 from 1st April, 1920. 



II. Training. 



In addition to Mr. M. Mitra, mentioned above, Pandit 

 S. D. Joshi, a private student from the United Provinces, 

 continued his post-graduate course and was granted a 

 stipend by his Local Government. Mr. T. Padmanabha 

 Pillai, Mycologist, Travancore State, worked at laboratory 

 methods during a period of one month from 5th February., 

 1920. 



