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and the public wealth, the (^ougress resolves that it is^absolutely necessary to estab- 

 lish scientific stations exclusively devoted to the study of the diseases of cultivated 

 plants among us. 



2. These phytopathologic stations, which, in order to be in the closest relations 

 with scientific and practical circles, shall be established in the center of each coun- 

 try that is well provided with channels of communication, ought to be State insti- 

 tutions, charged with aiding practice by making gratuitous analyses for, and inves- 

 tigating and collaborating with, it. 



3. The congress recognizes that observations and experiments made in common 

 in all cultivated countries are the best guaranty of success in the search for sure 

 and ajipropriate methods of combating the diseases of plants. Great expense may 

 be saved in overcoming future epidemics if, by means of a network of scientific 

 observations extending over all cultivated countries, States not yet attacked by plant 

 diseases may be warned in time to take the necessary measures. 



4. The congress considers it necessary that the heads of all pathologic stations of 

 different countries shall engage to meet once a year to discuss and pass the resolu- 

 tions which shall be deemed opportune. 



5. The congress elects an international commission, having the right of coopta- 

 tion, which shall put itself in relation with the Society of Agriculture of Vienna 

 and agree with it as to the measures to be taken toward founding scientific stations 

 designed to investigate the diseases of plants, and toward organizing a service of 

 phytopathologic inspection in all cultivated countries. 



Following the general meeting at Vienna, the members of the com- 

 mission held a consultation meeting at The Hague, Holland. It was 

 plain to the members present that the first necessity was the organiza- 

 tion of national commissions in the several countries to be represented 

 on the international commission. The efforts of the members have, 

 therefore, since that date, been devoted to the establishment of such 

 national commissions. Institutions for phytopathologic service have 

 in this way been organized in Germany, Holland, and Belgium, and are 

 being agitated in other European countries. It is the intention of the 

 secretary, Dr. Paul Sorauer, of Berlin, editor of the Zeitschrift fiir 

 Pflanzenkrankheiten, to call the members of the commission together 

 in 1890, at Berlin, on the occasion of the Berlin Industrial Exposition, 

 in order to accomplish a more complete international organization, and 

 in order to start the annual meetings provided for in the fourth section 

 of the Vienna resolutions. 



It must be remembered, moreover, in treating of European countries, 

 that, in addition to special commissions to investigate special insect 

 problems of temporary importance, there are other classes of official 

 work bearing upon insects, which, however, we can hardly consider in 

 this connection, mainly for want of space. These are, government 

 encouragement of sericulture and apiculture, both through subsidies, 

 and the establishment of educational institutions, and further sub- 

 sidizing of learned societies, enabling them to carry on investigations 

 and publish works of more or less importance. Very considerable good 

 has been accomplished in this direction, but the sources of information 

 at hand are too scanty to justify any more than a brief reference to the 

 existence of such an element in our general subject. 



