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little biographic data is available. His contributions 

 show him to belong to the dominating school of the 

 Millardetian period. 



The Latin races have had much less influence on phyto- 

 pathology than have the Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon. 

 Nevertheless, during the Millardetian period, France and 

 Italy produced plant pathologists of note. They are 

 chiefly pathogenetists. Most of these are still living. 



In France, aside from Millardet, the most noted patho- 

 genetists of this period are Delacroix, Prillieux, and Viala. 

 These men all began their work in the field of plant 

 pathology about the opening of the period. Prillieux 

 had already made some contributions to the science as 

 early as 1872. Viala, whose first paper appeared in 1883, 

 has devoted himself almost entirely to diseases of the 

 vine. (See list of his papers in Lindau and Sydow, 

 2 : 692-695.) 



Edouard Ernest Prillieux has made perhaps the most 

 numerous and varied contributions to French literature 

 on plant diseases. He was for many years professor of 

 botany at the Institute Agronomique in Paris. He died 

 in 1915 at the advanced age of eighty-seven. He was a 

 senator and the first director of the laboratory for vege- 

 table pathology in Paris. Prillieux is regarded by his 

 French contemporaries as the founder of phytopathology 

 in France. He is the author of a two-volume work on 

 diseases of agricultural plants, published in 1895 and 

 1897. 1 Many of his papers were published in co-author- 

 ship with Georges Delacroix. Upon his election as 



1 Prillieux, E. : Maladies des plantes agricoles et des arbres fruitiers 

 et forestiers causees par des parasites vegetaux, 1 : 1-XVI + 1-421, 

 1895; 2 : 1-592, 1897. 



