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out the world. 1 He has recently completed the fifth 

 volume of a most extensive investigation on the nature 

 and control of the bitter pit (stippin) of the apple. 2 This 

 work, undertaken in 1911, is of a type very different from 

 that of his previous contributions. It is distinctly phys- 

 iologic, being in sharp contrast to the mycologic charac- 

 ter of his earlier contributions. This work on bitter pit 

 will doubtless give McAlpine a place in the present era. 

 Born in Scotland and educated in London University, he 

 went, in 1884 at the very beginning of the Millardetian 

 period, to Australia, where he held the position of 

 lecturer in biology in Ormond College and at the same 

 time a similar position in botany in the College of Phar- 

 macy in Melbourne until 1890, when he was appointed to 

 his present position. 



The most noted Hungarian phytopathologist of the 

 Millardetian period is Gyula de Csik Madejalva Istvanffi, 

 director of the Royal Central Institute for Viticulture at 

 Budapest. He has made extensive studies of the more 

 common diseases of the grape. 3 He is still living, hence 



1 McAlpine, D.: The rusts of Australia, pp. 1-349, 1906; and The 

 smuts of Australia, pp. 1-285, 1910. He has to his credit a total of over 

 220 scientific books and papers, of which 15 are scientific contributions 

 of special merit. For an extensive list of his contributions see, List of 

 Scientific Works, Papers, and Bulletins by D. McAlpine, government 

 vegetable pathologist 1877-1916, in an unnumbered pamphlet, pp. 1-12, 

 1916. Published by Department of Agriculture of Victoria, Melbourne, 

 Australia. 



2 McAlpine, D.: Bitter pit investigations, Reports 1-5, 1911 to 1916. 



3 Among Istvanffi's most important papers on grape diseases may be 

 mentioned, Etudes microbiologiques et mycologiques sur le rot gris de 

 la vigne (Botrytis cinerea, Sclerotinia Fuckeliana), pp. 183-360, 1905; 

 Etudes sur le rot livide de la vigne (Coniothyrium Diplodiella) , pp. 1- 

 88, 1902; Etudes sur le mildiou de la vigne, pp. 1-125, 1913; all published 

 in the Annales de ITnstitute Central Ampelologique Royal Hongrois. 



