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Transactions of the Royal Scottish ArboricuUnral Society: Bulletin of Entomological 

 Research, S. Kensington : Review of Applied Entomology, S. Kensington : Tijdschrift 

 voor Pflanzenziekten, Wageningen: Monthly Bulletin and Bulletin Bibliograjihiqne, 

 International Institute of Agriculture, Rome: Publications of the United States 

 Dept. of Agriculture: West Indian Bulletin, Barbados: Agricultural Netvs, Barbados: 

 Agricultural Journal of India, Pusa: Memoirs of the Agricultural Dept., Pusa: 

 Bulletin of the Agricultural Dept., Trinidad: Bulletins of the Indian Tea Association, 

 Calcutta : Gardens Bulletin, Straits Settlement. 



We shall be glad to consider other exchanges and members will 

 find it useful to know that they can consult current numbers of these 

 publications in London. 



The library has been added to by the gift of many separates and 

 other publications by members ; there is room for much more and 

 members attention is again directed to this. We are laying the founda- 

 tion of the future library of Applied Biology and if members will 

 co-operate the hbrary will presently be of real value to all workers. 



H. M. L. 



AMERICAN GOOSEBERRY MILDEW. 



At the last meeting of the Economic Biologists Association, 

 Mr Salmon read a paper on some observations on the "Life History of 

 the American Gooseberry Mildew" in which the theory was advanced 

 that the over wintered perithecia of the fungus that remain on the bushes 

 were sterile and could not reproduce the disease in the following season. 



Shortly after the paper was read, viz. 24th April 1914, shoots 

 badly affected with the mildew were collected in Kent by one of the 

 Board's sub-inspectors. They were submitted to Kew with a request 

 that they should be examined and the ascospores germinated if possible. 

 Shortly afterwards (6th May) the following report was received : " A 

 considerable number of the perithecia or winter fruits present on the 

 material sent to Kew were sterile. Others, however, contained normal 

 spores, some of which have germinated. The mycelium shows no 

 sign of life, and judging from the absence of oil globules and stored 

 food material must be dead." A further sample was submitted on 

 the 7th of May, and on the 18th the following report was received: 

 " The majority of the perithecia present on the shoots are much smaller 

 in size than the normal ones and represent the morbid and inijxMfectly 



