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end of the volume is a comprehensive index; two maps, one: 
showing the position of Amboina in the Malay Archipelago and 
the other the island itself on a large scale, are added. J. H. 
Fungi and Disease in Plants.—Mycologists in all parts of 
the world will welcome the appearance of Dr. E. J. Butler’s book 
on fungus diseases of plants. Dr. Butler was appointed Imperial 
Mycologist to the Government of India in 1901, and 17 years of 
hard work, which has included extensive travel over a vast terri- 
tory, as well as much painstaking research, have given him a posi- 
tion that is unique amongst pathologists. The sub-title of the 
work indicates that it concerns the diseases of field and plantation 
crops in India and the East, but in a country such as India the 
number of crops to be included is obviously large and varied, 
and ranges from the beans and potatoes of the hills to rubber 
and sugar cane, a circumstance which gives the book an unusually 
wide purview, 
e volume is divided into (1) a general part of 150 pages, and 
(2) a special part devoted to diseases of particular crops (365 
pages). The first part, though commencing with the rudimentary 
The general account of the diseases and of the particular 
symptoms is very full, whilst a technical description of the 
parasitic organism, though also given in considerable detail, is 
added in small type to save space. Illustrations are numerous 
and good, there being over 200 figures. a large number of which 
are new, and several coloured plates. The volume concludes with 
a bibliography arranged under host plants. It will be noted 
that diseases of fruit and forest trees are not included, these being 
and the production of a volume which will be invaluable to all 
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Bl eae Crops, especially those of India and the East. By EJ. 
Puasa. Th B., F.LS.., Imperial Mycologist, Agricultural Research Institute, 
acker, Spink and Co., Calcutta and Simla, 1918, pp. 547, figs. 206. 
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