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But the work by which Talbot is best known to the botanical 
world is his “ Forest Flora of the Bombay Presidency and Sind,” 
a large quarto work in two volumes, profusely illustrated by his 
sister Miss E. S. Talbot, and published in 1909 after his first 
book had been through two editions. Talbot’s name was 
commemorated by Sir J. D. Hooker in the Balsam, Jmpatiens 
Talboti. 
Imperial Bureau of Mycology.—The following statement 
recording the establishment of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology 
has been received for publication by the Director from the 
Rt. Hon. The Secretary of State for the Colonies :-— 
The Imperial Bureau of Mycology is the outcome of a 
proposal unanimously adopted by the Imperial War Conference 
in 19i8 that a central organisation should be established for 
the encouragement and co-ordination of work throughout the 
Empire on the diseases of plants caused by fungi, in relation to 
agriculture. The Committee of Management consists of some 
of the foremost biologists in the country, with Viscount Harcourt 
as their Chairman, and includes the following members :— 
Professor Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., Mr. W. Bateson, 
F.R.S., Professor V. H. Blackman. FR: S., Professor F. O. 
Bower, F.R.S., Mr. A. D. Cotton, F.L.S., Professor H. H. Dixon, 
F.RS., Professor J. B. Farmer, E.R. S., Captain A. W. Hill, 
F.R.S., Professor W. H. Lang, F.R.S., Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., — 
Mr. J. “Murray, Mr. G. H. Pethybridge, Sir David Prain, O.M.G., 
C.LE., F.R.S., Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S., Mr. H. N. Ridley, 
C.M.G., F.B.8., Professor R. A. Robertson, F.R.S.E., Sir A. E. 
Shipley, F.R.S., Professor W. Somerville, F.R.S., and Dr. H. W. 
T. Wager, F.R.S. 
Dr. E. J. Butler, C.1.E., late Imperial Mycologist, Director of 
the Research Institute, Pusa, and Agricultural Adviser to the 
Government of India, has been appointed Director, and has 
started work at the headquarters of the Bureau, No. 17, Kew 
Green, Kew (Telephone: Richmond 603); this site has the 
advantage of proximity to the fine library and collections of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, with the Director and staff of which the 
Bureau will work in co-operation. 
The funds of the Bureau are entirely provided by contribu- 
tions from the various self-governing Dominions, India, Egypt, 
and the Soudan, and the non-self-governing Colonies and 
Protectorates. It will work broadly on the lines of the existing 
Imperial Bureau of Entomology at South Kensington, and will 
aim at doing for the other great class of destructive agencies in 
agriculture, namely, the diseases and blights of plants caused by 
fungi, what the older Bureau has so successfully done in regard 
to injurious insects. It will be a central agency for the accumu- 
lation and distribution of information and for the identification 
of specimens sent in from all parts of the Empire. It is pro- 
posed to issue, as soon as funds permit, a periodical journal 
