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HISTORY OP PHYTOPATHOLOGY 



on Diseases caused by fungi in his Outlines of British 

 fungology 1 gives an excellent picture of British knowl- 

 edge of the subject at the opening of the Kiihnian period. 



MILES JOSEPH BERKELEY. 



First noted English plant pathologist. (From a photograph, courtesy 

 of Dr. L. R. Hesler.) 



One of the best of his contributions, aside from those 

 mentioned, is his paper on potato murrain 2 which had 



1 Berkeley, M. J.: Outlines of British fungology containing characters 

 of above a thousand species of fungi and a complete list of all that have 

 been described as natives of the British Isles, pp. I-XV + 1^442, London, 

 I860. 



2 Berkeley, M. J.: Observations, botanical and physiological, on the 

 potato murrain, Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. of London, 1 : 9-34, 1846. 



