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dresses were made by Professor Merriam, Dr. 

 Henry M. Ami and Professor William M. Davis. 

 The evening was closed with the reading of the 

 presidential address by Dr. Cross, entitled "Geol- 

 ogy in the War and After," and followed by the 

 address of the retiring vice-president of Section E 

 of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, George H. Perkins, entitled "Physiog- 

 raphy of Vermont. ' ' 



The officers for the ensuing year, beginning at 

 the close of the Baltimore meeting, are as follows: 



President — J. C. Merriam. 



Vice-presidents — R. A. Penrose, Jr., Herbert E. 

 Gregory, Egbert T. Jackson. 



Secretary — Edmund Otis Hovey. 



Treasurer — -Edward B. Mathews. 



Editor— 3 QS^TTi Stanley-Brown. 



Councilors, 1919-19S1 — William S. Bayley, 

 Eugene W. Shaw. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 

 Secretary 



THE AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOG- 

 ICAL SOCIETY 



The tenth annual meeting of the society was 

 held in GUman Hall, Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md., December 23-28, 1918, in afaiia- 

 tiou with the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science and the Botanical Society 

 of America. 



About fifty members were present. The pro- 

 gram was devoted chiefly to project conferences and 

 reports of the War Emergency Board, accounts of 

 which will be distributed separately. Sixteen 

 papers were presented at the regular sessions, ab- 

 stracts of these appeared in the January number 

 of Phytopathology. Twenty-nine new members 

 were elected. 



Joint sessions were held with Section G of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence and also with the Botanical Society of Amer- 

 ica. 



The followng officers were elected: 



President — C. L. Shear, TJ. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Vice-president — I. E. Melhus, Iowa State Col- 

 lege, Ames, Iowa. 



Secretary-treasurer — G. E. Lyman, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Councilor for two years — Donald Eeddick, Cor- 

 nell University, Ithaca, New York. 



Associate Editors for three years — Geo. L. Pel- 

 tier, Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn, 

 Alabama; P. D. Heald, Agricultural Experiment 



Station, Pullman, Washington; J. E. Howitt, On- 

 tario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario, Can- 

 ada, and J. B. S. Norton, Maryland State College, 

 College Park, Maryland. 



Business Manager of Phytopathology — G. R. 

 Lyman. 



The society decided to hold its next annual meet- 

 ing at St. Louis, Mo., in conjunction with the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, December 29, 1919, to January 3, 1920. 



Besides the papers presented at the War 

 Emergency Board Conferences the following were 

 read Saturday, December 28 : 



The Physoderma disease of corn: W. W. Tisdale. 

 Macrosporium solani on tomato fruit: Jos. Eosen- 



BAUM. 



Notes on the rusts of the Pinon pines : Ellsworth 



Bethel, N. Eex Hunt. 

 Hot water seed treatment for blackleg of caihage: 



J. B. S. Norton. 

 Fungi which decay weaveshed roofs (with lan- 

 tern) : E. J. Blair. 

 Resistance in the American chestnut to the Endo- 



thia canher (with lantern) : A. H. Graves. 

 Investigations of white pine blister rust, 1918: 



Perley Spaulding. 

 Isolation of fungi from manufactured sugars: 



Nicholas Kopeloef. 



On AVednesday evening, December 25, there was 

 a dinner and a special program in celebration of 

 the tenth anniversary of the organization of the 

 society. The following papers were presented: 

 Our journal, "Phytopathology" : L. E. Jones. 

 The first decade of the society: C. L. Shear. 



The reading of these papers was followed by a 

 general discussion of society problems and rela- 

 tions which proved interestiii T and valuable. 

 C. L. Shear, 

 Secretary-Treasurer 



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