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for the work had to do almost entirely with diseases in 

 plants. In 1887 the name of this section was changed 

 to that of Vegetable Pathology, Scribner continuing as 

 chief. Scribner's reports for the years 1886 and 1887 1 

 indicate the unorganized and dependent state of American 

 phytopathology at that time. On November 1, 1888, 

 there was appointed to this recently established section 

 a young botanist who, under the stimulating influence 

 of the discoveries of Millardet and of his own country- 

 men, was to stand forth as a leader in the development 

 of phytopathology in America; I refer to B. T. Galloway, 

 who succeeded Scribner in 1889. 2 Galloway gathered 

 about him gradually a staff of the most competent and 

 enthusiastic young botanists of this country. Many of 

 these became pathologists whose names and works are 

 known today not only in their own country but in all 

 foreign lands. One needs mention but a few of these 

 to show the type: Erwin F. Smith, Merton B. Waite, 

 David G. Fairchild, Mark A. Carleton, Walter T. Swin- 

 gle, Herbert J. Webber, O. H. Dorsett, Newton B. Pierce, 

 Albert F. Woods, and others. The influence of this 

 division and its corps of workers upon the development 

 of phytopathologic investigations in the various experi- 

 ment stations of the different states was most potent. 

 To their efforts was also due the founding of the present 



1 Scribner, F. L.: Report of the mycologist for the year 1886. In, 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. Ann. Report for the year 1886 : 95-138, 1887; also 

 report of the chief of the section of vegetable pathology for the year 

 1887. In, U. S. Dept. Agr. Ann. Report fdr the year 1887 : 1-V + 323- 

 397, 1888. 



2 Galloway, B. T.: Report of the chief of the section of vegetable 

 pathology for the year 1888. In, U. S. Dept. Agr. Ann. Report for the 

 year 1888 : 1-IV + 325-404, 1889 (see p. 325). 



