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of this work the evening before he died. His most pre- 

 tentious text, that on the diseases of plants of the tropics, 1 

 was completed by his successor, Maublanc, from notes 

 and manuscripts which he left. 



Italy produced several plant pathologists of note dur- 

 ing this period. Orazio Comes, born in 1848, was at the 

 opening of the period the most mature and best known. 

 He had already published numerous papers on pathogenic 

 fungi, including an extensive text on the cryptogamic 

 parasites of agricultural plants. 2 A second book on the 

 same subject appeared in 189 1. 3 He has written exten- 

 sively on the diseases of the vine. His most recent con- 

 tributions to the literature is a text on the control of 

 plant diseases. 4 He is one of the most productive teachers 

 of phytopathology in Italy, his students occupying many 

 positions throughout the kingdom. Formerly professor 

 of botany in the Royal School of Agriculture at Portici, 

 he is now director of that institution. 



Of the Italian plant pathologists of the Millardetian 

 period, perhaps the most noted is Luigi Salvatore Savas- 

 tano, whose first papers appeared about 1881. He was 

 born in Naples in 1853 and is still living. He was for 

 some years professor of arboriculture and applied vege- 

 table pathology in the Superior School of Agriculture 



1 Delacroix, G. : Maladies des plantes cultivees dans les pays chauds, 

 pp. I-IX + 1-595, 1911. 



2 Comes, O.: Le Crittogame parassite delle piante agrarie. Lezioni 

 tenute nella R. Scuola Sup. die Agric. di Portici neU'anno 1882 : 1-580, 

 Napoli, 1882. This consists of a collection of his lectures, reproduced 

 in script from a copy made by his students, R. de Netto and F. de Rosa; 

 illustrated by another student, L. de Luise. 



3 Comes, O.: Crittogamia agraria, pp. 1-600, Napoli, 1891. 



4 Comes, O.: La profilassi nella patologia vegetale, pp. 1-172, Xapoli. 

 1916. 



