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Smut experiments have also been conducted with the smut of 
Proso millet and the smut of Foxtail millet. A few varieties of 
each of these groups of millets have been tested. For the most 
part they have proved highly susceptible to their respective smut. 
Mr. James A. Faris, whose appointment in November as Re- 
search Fellow is noted elsewhere in this report, is engaged upon 
the problem of determining the influence of temperature and soil 
moisture upon the infection of the host by certain smuts. So far 
he has been largely engaged in getting together the necessary equip- 
ment for a successful attack upon this problem. 

Fic. 2. Mr. Alfred T...White. (at the left), making his address after 
having laid the corner stone of the Laboratory Building, April 20, 1916. 
At the right of Mr. White is Mr. A. Augustus Healy, whose address fol- 
lowed that of Mr. White. 
During the past year Miss Dorothy P. Tuthill has taken a course 
in general myeology and plant pathology, and has studied, from the 
laboratory standpoint, representatives of the main groups of fungi, 
