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to the Seventh luternational Coiigi'ess for Agriculture at Rome, where 

 a special committee on phytopathology "was formed, composed of rep- 

 resentatives from the several countries and headed by Dr. Paul 

 Sorauer, i whose Zeitschrift flir Pflanzenkrankheiten was made the 

 official organ. 



In 1905 the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome was 

 founded through the initiative of the King of Italy. T4iis Institute 

 named as one of its objects the better control of plant diseases, and the 

 subject was discussed more or less at each of its subsequent sessions. 

 In 1907 the Swedish Government presented to the Institute a detailed 

 plan for the creation of international stations for phytopathology, and 

 this was followed by the establishment of a .special section for plant 

 diseases. 



Dr. Eriksson 2 brought the subject before the Eighth International 

 Congress for Agriculture at Vienna (1907) and in 1908 before the 

 International Botanical Association at ^lontpellier, where favorable 

 resolutions were adopted. He has also published several independent 

 articles jjleading for international action for the control of plant dis- 

 eases, and in 1905 endeavored to bring about general action in Europe 

 to cheek the spread of the then recently introduced American goose- 

 berry mildew. The International Association of Academies, meeting 

 in Rome in 1910 discussed the suggestion of Doctors Eriksson and 

 Sorauer and approved the centralization of the work in the Inter- 

 national Institute at Rome. This Institute began the collections of 

 data and in 1911 published a monograph on the organization of the 

 service for the control of plant diseases in the countries adhering to 

 the Institute. 3 



In October, 1912, at the International Congress for Comparative 

 Pathology at Paris, the whole subject was fully discussed, and the» 

 French Government was invited to take the initiative by calling an 

 International Phytopathological Commission to meet in Rome in April, 

 1913. Tliis action was taken by the French Government and the date 

 set for April 25, 1913, at Rome, preceding the meeting of the Inter- 

 national Institute. Owing to the short notice, however, several gov- 

 ernments could not accept and the meeting was postponed. At the 



1 Sorauer, Dr. Pau]. Internationaler Phytopathologischer Dienst. Zeitschrift 

 fiir Pfianzenkrankheiteu. Berliu-Schoueberg (1908). 



2 Eriksson, Dr. Jakob. Une lutte internatiouale contre les maladies des plantes 

 eultivees. Stockholm. 1909. Landtbruksbotanisk Yerksamhet vid Kungl. 

 Landtbruks-Akademiens Experimentalfalt under Aren 1878-1912. Stockholm. 

 1913. 



3 L 'organization actuelle du service de protection contre les maladies des plantes 

 et les insectes nuisibles dans les diverse pays. lustitute International D 'Agricul- 

 ture, Eome, 1911. 



