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plant diseases be published — Vn>ii^()us Diseases of PLmts, by B. 

 M. Dui^Ljar. This hook would appear almost two years after the 

 first departments of plant pathology in American universities had 

 been created — at Cornell University under H. 11. W'hctzcl, author 

 in 1918 of An Outline of the History of Phytopathology, and at 

 the University of Minnesota under E. M. Freeman, author in 190*^ 

 of the pioneering work, Minnesota Plant Diseases. On February 

 1^ 1910, L. R. Jones would establish at the University of Wisconsin 

 one of the leading and, in instruction and research, most influential 

 departments of plant pathology in any American university. The 

 creation of this department would be practically contemporaneous 

 with the founding of the American Phytopathological Society and 

 precede -by less than a year issuance of the first number of the 

 Society's journal, Phytopathology. Smith would find ^^' Duggar's 

 book compared " very well indeed " with the standard European 

 literature and manuals of plant pathology by Tubeuf, Sorauer, 

 Kirchner, and Frank in Germany; Prillieux and Delacroix in 

 France; Comes in Italy; and Ward of England, whose new trea- 

 tise, Disease in Plants, was published in 1901. Whetzel began 

 his instruction in diseases of plants, both in the college of arts 

 and sciences of Cornell and in the department of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture, with the use of mimeographed sheets 

 prepared by himself from Kiister's Pathologische Pfianzenanatomie 

 w^hich in first edition was published in 1903. Sydow began this 

 year his Annales Mycologici, and about this time Willam H. Park's 

 Bacteriology in Medicine and Surgery and the great four-volume 

 work on infectious diseases of man and animals by W. KoUe and 

 A. Wassermann, unter Miticirkung von 34 Fachmcinner. Hand- 

 buch der pathogenen Mikroorganismen (1902-1904), were making 

 their appearances.*^ 



At the Washington meeting in 1902 of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, the mycologists present 

 gathered and discussed forming a permanent organization. The 

 response being favorable, an arranged meeting to organize was 

 held the following year on December 29 at St. Louis. Dr. Arthur 

 was temporary chairman and Dr. F. E. Clements secretary. Arthur 



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Science n. s. 32(810): 56-58, July 8, 1910. 

 ** Fifty years of pathology, op. c'tt., 30-31. See also Bacteria in relation to plant 

 diseases 1: 206, bibliography. 



