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some of the accomplishments of scientists in these laboratories had 

 been of value. But the field was large, and workers few in com- 

 parison with the magnitude of the task. 



Rorer and Smith in 1904, while in the West Indies — Cuba and 

 the Bahamas — to study the coconut bud rot, had visited the 

 Harvard University Station for Tropical Research and sugar cane 

 investigation on the Atkins estate at Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba. 

 There Smith studied for the first time specimens of sugar cane 

 imported from Java and infected with the Sereh disease. About 

 this time American botanical research, including the study of 

 plant diseases, had been extended to several points in the tropics. 

 The New York Botanical Garden had negotiated an agreement 

 with the colonial government of Jamaica to maintain as a botanical 

 laboratory and in conjunction with the government's department 

 of public gardens and plantations the famous Cinchona Botanical 

 Garden there. Nor were the extensions confined to experimental 

 research laboratories and agricultural stations. After serving until 

 1906 as plant pathologist in charge of the Department's sub- 

 tropical laboratory at Miami, Florida, and until 1921 as director 

 of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and dean of the 

 college of agriculture of the University of Florida, P. H. Rolfs, was 

 selected to locate, organize, and conduct an agricultural college 

 for the State of Minas Geraes, Brazil. Other South American uni- 

 versities were founded which attached especial importance to 

 investigations in plant pathology. More and further each year, 

 plant pathology, as a working science and reality, was being 

 extended internationally.^'^ Research in disease of plants had made 

 great strides in Japan,"' in the Philippines,^® and some very im- 

 portant work was being done by Smith's former laboratory and 

 scientific assistant, Leslie C. Coleman, in Mysore, India. 



In Canada a phytopathological society would be organized. 

 Sectional societies in the United States would be established. In 

 England, the laboratory of plant pathology, formerly located at 



*" January 2, 1913, at the Cleveland, Ohio, meeting of the American Phyto- 

 pathological Society, a symposium on International Aspects of Phytopathological 

 Problems had been presented by C. L. Shear, L. R. Jones, and W. A. Orton. See 

 Phytopathology 3(2, 3): 77, 143 ff., 1913. 



*^H. Atherton Lee, Plant pathology in Japan, Phytopathology 9(4): 178-179, 

 Apr. 1919. 



"* Otto Reinking, college of agriculture. University of the Philippines, Philippine 

 plant diseases. Phytopathology 9(3): 114-140, Mar. 1919- 



