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years of active teaching from 1874 until about 1896. The valuable 

 Contributions from the Cryptogdniic Laboratory of liiinuircl Uni- 

 versity had reached by 1896 thiry-seven, with many unnumbered,"' 

 papers and many of them were of fundamental importance to 

 plant pathology and its allied branches of science. By 1909 the 

 number of Contributions had been increased to sixty-five papers 

 and the list of graduates from the university and laboratory, or 

 who had done special work there, included such men as G. F. 

 Atkinson, C. E. Bessey, E. A. Burt, G. P. Clinton, B. M. Duggar, 

 J. H. Faull, J. E. Humphrey, J. R. Johnston, G. R. Lyman, L. H. 

 Pammcl, L. \V. Riddle, J. B. Rorer, F. C. Stewart, W. C Sturgis, 

 R. Thaxter, W. Trelease, L. M. Underwood, and H. von Schrenk. 

 About this time H. P. Barss and H. S. Jackson did work there. 

 Most of these men became important figures in plant pathology 

 in America, and from this laboratory had graduated such very 

 important algologists as W. A. Setchell who graduated also from 

 Yale Universit)' under Daniel Cady Eaton, and Kingo Miyabe of 

 Japan. Furthermore, such noted American botanists, leaders in 

 the fields of physiology, genetics, cytology, taxonomy, or other 

 branches, A. F. Blakcslee, B. M. Davis, G. T. Moore, G. J. Peirce, 

 B. L. Robinson, J. J. Wolfe, and others, had taken their under- 

 graduate and/or graduate work there, at least in part. Bruce Fink 

 and others had studied lichenology with Farlow, and among 

 Farlow's and Thaxter's many correspondents from all parts of the 

 world were many leading students of plant pathology, physiology, 

 C)'tology, and genetics, as well as the outstanding mycologists, 

 algologists, bryologists, and students of other phases of research 

 among the cryptogamia. Pertinent also is the fact that among 

 their many other students were men who went into zoology, 

 biology, and medicine. 



At Harvard in 1909 W. J. V. Osterhout was appointed an 

 assistant professor of botany and assumed mainly the work in 

 plant physiology formerly taught by Dr. Goodale. Evidently an 

 expanded program of teaching and research at the Bussey Insti- 

 tution, one to include experimental investigations in plant path- 

 ology, was contemplated but did not materialize perhaps because 



"W. G. Farlow, A sketch of cryptogamic botany in Harvard University, 1874- 

 1896, printed pamphlet, 16 pages; also, a valuable article on the work of the 

 department of cryptogamic botany under Farlow and Thaxter, W. H. Weston, Jr., 

 Dr. Farlow's influence on mycology, Farlouia 2(1): 85-95. 



