EDITORIAL. 1003 



Issl lie succeeded in securiiio- an auiveiueiit vogarding international 

 coniinercp. and excliaiiii-e in horticultural products. Outsid<> of Franco 

 M. Cornu is best known by iiis in\-estiiiations in ve^'etahle i)atholooy. 

 Ho took a prominent ])ai't in working- out the phylloxera pi'obieni in 

 France, and has published observations u])on many other plant 

 diseases. He was one of the earliest investio-ators to determine the 

 relationship between tlu^ cedai' apple and the rust occurring- on pear 

 and apple leaves. His pul)lication on this subject dealt with Gynnu)- 

 HjKii'diKjinin saMncB on juniper, and Rn'strHd c(incrllat(i on pear leaves. 

 The alternate generation of Piirolvhi corona fa. on oats and the secidial 

 stage of the fungus on the buckthorn were also pointed out. Among 

 other of his investigations were those on the grape mildew and 

 anthracnos(\ lettuce mildew, pine-leaf rust, hollyhock rust, onion 

 smut, etc. ^lost of the publications relating to these investigations 

 were issued before he assumed the directorship, as his studies in plant 

 introduction fully occu})i(Ml him during recent years. 



This issue concludes the twelfth Nolume of the Record, except the 

 index number, which will be No. l!^, as usual. The latter is in course 

 of preparation, and is well under way, l)ut will not be read}^ for dis- 

 tribution for some little time. In the meantime the new volume will 

 ))e entered upon. A smaller type has been adopted for this, which 

 will ena))le a considerably larger number of abstracts to be included 

 in each number without increasing the number of pages. By this 

 means it is hoped that the publication of the abstracts may be kept 

 somewhat more closely iip to date. 



Good progress has been made in the work on the coml)in<Ml index to 

 the lirst 12 volumes of the Record. The preliminar}^ work on this is 

 approaching completion. Even with the condensation which has been 

 adopted it includes upward of l()0,0()0 separate entries. The com- 

 bining- of these so as to bring all related references together undt'i 

 suitable general entries, in order to make it a practical working index, 

 together with the final editorial work and proof i-eading, will probal>ly 

 require several months. Although a laborious and expensive under- 

 taking, it is believed that the product will justify this in furnishing a 

 full subject index to experiment station work since the passage of the 

 Hatch Act, and to a very large proportion of the contemporaneous 

 investigation along lines related to agriculture. 



