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made director of the newly established Station of Plant 

 Pathology, in which position he continued until his death. 

 He is especially noted for his studies on the diseases of 

 tobacco. He also gave much attention to the diseases of 

 tropical plants, material of which came to him from the 

 French colonies. In addition to his numerous papers on 

 various diseases of plants, Delacroix is the author of 



GEORGES DELACROIX. 



A noted French pathogenetist. (From a portrait in "Bulletin de la 

 Societe Mycologique de France," vol. xxiv.) 



several text-books. The first of these, a small booklet 

 on. diseases of cultivated plants, appeared in 1902. l A 

 book on non-parasitic diseases of plants was given to the 

 public in 1908 after his death. 2 He wrote the final pages 



1 Delacroix, G.: Maladies desplantes cultivees, pp. 1-73, Paris, 1902. 



2 Delacroix, G.: Maladies des plantes cultivees. Maladies non-parasi- 

 taires, pp. I-XII + 1-431, Paris, 1908. 



