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Botanical War Emergency Work—The American Phyto- 
pathological Society have appointed a War Emergency Board 
comprising seven Commissioners, as follows: H. H. Whetzel, 
Chairman, Commissioner for the North East, Education: Col- 
lege and Extension, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; H. P. 
Barss, Commissioner for the West, Western Problems and 
Needs, Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oregon; F. D. Kern, 
Commissioner for the Central East, Man-power Census and 
Publicity, Agricultural College, State College, Pa.; E. C. Stack- 
man, Commissioner of the Great Plains, Emergency Research, 
Agricultural College, St. Paul, Minnesota; H. W. Barre, Com- 
nussioner for the South, Southern Problems and Needs, Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station, Clemson College, S. C.; G. H. Coons, 
Commissioner for the North Central States East, Fungicides and 
Machinery, Supplies and Prices, Agricultural College, East 
Lansing, Mich.; G. R. Lyman, Commissioner at Large, Plant 
Disease Survey and Crop Loss Estimates, U. S. Dept. of Agr., 
Washington, D. C. 
The United States has been divided into six districts, with a 
commissioner in each and one commissioner at large. A “Call 
to the colors” has been issued to every botanist in the United 
States and Canada, and pathologists in each district are urged to 
cooperate with the commissioner for that district. 
Emergency projects already defined and assigned are as fol- 
lows: (1) Man power census; (2) Publicity campaign, to ac- 
quaint the general public with the economic importance and need 
for public support of plant disease control work; (3) Fungicides 
and machinery, including plans for assuring to the farmer, at a 
fair price, an adequate supply of reliable fungicides, disinfect- 
ants, and machinery for their application; (4) Emergency re- 
search, Research men are asked to redirect their work, or turn 
to new problems of immediate concern; (5) Plant disease sur- 
vey, now under way; (6) Crop loss estimates, the securing of 
accurate estimates as to the annual losses due to plant diseases; 
(7) Education: college and university teaching; (8) Education: 
Extension work, 
