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plants, fruit and bulbs, and do not throw them on the manure- 
heap, aslovenly, thoughtless act which helps to disseminate the 
disease-germs. Neither cuttings from diseased plants, though 
themselves apparently healthy, nor the healthy looking portions 
of diseased potatoe, should be used for propagation. Bulbs 
or tubers produced by diseased plants perpetuate disease. 
Seeds produced by diseased parents should not, on any account, 
be sown. Fresh or green manure should not be used on land 
intended for cereals. 
The attention of the audience was drawn to the valuable 
leaflets dealing with all kinds of field and garden pests, which 
contain numerous hints and advice in all directions, to 
farmers and fruit-growers, issued by the Board of Agriculture 
and Fisheries, 4 Whitehall Place, S.W. There are now about 
two hundred and fifty of these leaflets, any or all of which can 
be procured gratis (or bound up in volumes of one hundred for 
6d.). There is no need even to stamp the letter applying for 
them. They have been of immense service to those who have 
made use of them. A vote of thanks to the lecturer was pro- 
posed by the Rev. J. W. Bowman, Whitby, and seconded by 
Mr. A. Clarke, Huddersfield. 
On the Tuesday evening, Mr. Massee gave an interesting 
talk on a few ‘ Mycological Celebrities from early times on- 
wards.’ Photos taken from portraits or direct from the men 
themselves were thrown on the screen to illustrate the discourse. 
Among them were Sterbeek of Holland, J. G. Gleditsch, 
Desmazieres, Montague, Elias Fries, M. J. Berkeley, the 
brothers Tulasne, De Bary, M. C. Cooke, and Saccardo. 
These several eminent mycologists each set up a new epoch 
in the constantly advancing study of mycology. The first 
mycologist of any note was Sterbeek, who published his 
“Theatrum Fungorum’ first printed at Antwerp in 1654, 
containing 32 plates with about 300 figures. Montague was 
the first French mycologist, and did the Flora of Algiers. 
Desmazieres initiated the study of the micro-characters of fungi 
and may be considered the Berkeley of France. Fries worked 
out a general systematic scheme of classification of European 
species, especially the Hymenomycetes, founded on the work 
of Persoon, and still in general use, and likely to be for some 
time to come. 
Berkeley published his first work on mycology in 1836 
(‘ Eng. Flor.’, Vol. V., Pt. II.) which, so far as the larger fungi 
are concerned, is as yet unsurpassed for accuracy and originality. 
Although he continued to elucidate the systematic side, his 
name in the future will be more associated with the morpho- 
logical and physiological side of the subject than as a systema- 
tist. He was the founder of what is known to-day as Vegetable 
Pathology, and one of the first to lay special stress upon the 
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