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5. That the holders of the Association’s table are expected 
to give proper credit for the use of the table in all published 
results of investigations carried on at the table. 
The resolutions were adopted. At a meeting of the Coun- 
cil in the evening the subscription was continued for 1895 
and the above regulations for its use adopted. 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 2IST. 
The Committee on the Nomenclature of Plant Diseases pre- 
sented the following report, which was accepted and adopted, 
and the committee continued. 
To Section G of the American Association for the Advance 
ment of Science: : 
The Committee upon the Nomenclature of Plant Diseases, 
appointed by the Madison Botanical Congress, by vote of that 
body begs to make the following report: j 7 
The committee finds itself with a somewhat difficult tas 
upon its hands. Names of fungous diseases that are ok 
general use it will be difficult, if not impossible, to gin 
and set aside. Thus the black rot of the grape and pe 
knot of plum and cherry are well known, distinctive os 
fixed. In anideal nomenclatural system there would be. rs 
tinctive common names for the various groups. bese 
measure has been accomplished, for we have downy “Use 
for Peronosporez, rusts for Uredinez, and smuts for nera 
ginee. There is a vast number of species of the large a 
like Septoria, Phyllosticta, Cercospora, Ramularia, Phyl 
are not easily given general names. Thus a Septor pe affect 
losticta may produce a definite spot upon the ie i t 
the whole area and the term ‘‘leaf spot” is gi 
is possible, for example, for blights (pear), rots ( a to 
wilts (melon), tuberculosis (olive), and other ie a 
produced by bacteria. It is suggested that W his can be 
the term bacteriosis be used for such cases. ey 
done when a mycologist has the opportunity to so names, 
disease before the world, and antedate any name e 
for there may be many, that arise among ee! rans it has 
Anthracnose is a name that is used so generally 
; hers, 
very little significance. It should, like many oF : 
restricted. et ee which the 
Without further argument the principal Pr considerations | 
committee would respectfully present for your 
are as follows: 
