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President — Professor A. D. Selby, Ohio Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio. 



Vice-president — Dr. R. A. Harper, University 

 of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 



Secretary-treasurer — Dr. C. L. Shear, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Members of Council — Dr. G. P. Clinton, Con- 

 necticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New 

 Haven, Conn., one year; Dr. Erwin F. Smith, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, two years. 

 The two eai officio members of the council are 

 Dr. F. L. Stevens, retiring president, and Dr. L. 

 R. Jones, chairman of board of editors of Phyto- 

 pathology. 



The following editorial board for the new jour- 

 nal Phytopathology was elected: 



Editors — L. R. Jones, C. L. Shear, H. H. 

 Whetzel. 



Associate Editors — G. P. Clinton, E. M. Free- 

 man, H. T. Gussow, F. D. Heald, Haven Metcalf. 

 W. A. Orton, W. M. Scott, A. D. Selby, Erwin F. 

 Smith, Ralph E. Smith, F. L. Stevens and Roland 

 Thaxter, with Donald Reddick as business man- 

 ager. 



The society elected thirty-seven new members. 



The next annual meeting will be held at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, in affiliation with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The following committee on legislation con- 

 cerning plant diseases was appointed: Mel T. 

 Cook, F. L. Stevens, F. C. Stewart, H. T. Gussow 

 and A. D. Selby, ea; officio. The committee on 

 names of plant diseases presented a report and 

 was continued. 



The following papers were presented: 



" Tannin in Relation to the Enzymes of the 

 Plant Cell,'- Mel T. Cook. 



" The Persistence of Bacillus amylovoru-s in 

 Pruned Apple Twigs," H. R. Fulton. (Read by 



C. L. Shear.) 



" The Industrial Fellowship in Plant Pathol- 

 ogy," H. H. Whetzel. 



" Sclerotium rhizoides Auersw. on Calamagros- 

 tis," A. B. Stout. 



" The Relation of Temperature to Spore Ger- 

 mination and Infection with Gystopus," I. E. 

 Melhus. 



" The Rusts of White and Red Clover," Frank 



D. Kern. (Read by title.) 



" Black Leg or Phoma Wilt of Cabbage, a New 

 Trouble to the United States caused by Phoma 

 oleracea Sace," Thos. F. Manns. (Read by A. D. 

 Selby.) 



" The Fu^arium Blight and Rot of Potato; 

 Field Experiments in Prevention," Thos. F. 

 Manns. (Read by A. D. Selby.) 



" The White Pine Blister Rust," Perley Spauld- 

 ing. (Read by Haven Metcalf.) 



" A Study of some Anthracnoses and their Re- 

 lations to a Sweet Pea Disease," J. J. Tauben- 

 haus. (Read by Mel T. Cook). 



" The Ascogeuous Form of the Fungus causing 

 Dead-arm of the Grape," C. L. Shear. 



" Further Notes on the Bark Disease of tlie 

 Chestnut," Haven Metcalf and J. Franklin Collins. 



" Necrosis and Crown Gall Diseases of Grapes 

 in New York," D. Reddick. 



" Peach Leaf -curl in Nursery Stock," V. B. 

 Stewart. (Read by D. Reddick.) 



" Some Laboratory and Field Studies on Fungi- 

 cidal Values," E. Wallace, F. M. Blodgett and 

 Lex R. Hesler. (Read by H. H. Whetzel.) 



" Varietal Resistance of Beans to Anthracnose," 

 M. F. Barrus. (Read by H. H. Whetzel.) 



" A Preliminary Report upon the Effects of 

 Arsenical Compounds upon Apple Trees," B. D. 

 Swingle. (Read by C. L. Shear.) 



" Results of Cotton Anthracnose Work for 

 1910," H. W. Barre. 



" Notes on some Diseases of Trees in our Na- 

 tional Forests, II.," George Grant Hedgcoek. 

 (Read by title.) 



"A New Fruit Spot of Apple," W. M. Scott. 

 (Read by C. L. Shear.) 



'■ Contribution to our Knowledge of the Mine 

 Fungi of the United States," C. J. Humphrey. 



" A Bacterial Disease of Bananas and Plan- 

 tains," James Birch Rorer. (Read by Erwin F. 

 Smith.) 



" The Leaf Spot of Sugar Beets," C. O. Town- 

 send. (Read by title.) 



" Notes on Hypertrophied Structures," Mel T. 

 Cook. 



" The Grand Rapids Tomato Disease," Erwin 

 P. Smith. 



" Crown Gall of Plants," Erwin F. Smith. 



" Cereal Smut Spore Germination," E. C. Stak- 

 man. (Read by title.) 



" Alfalfa Rust and Timothy Rust in Iowa," 

 L. H. Pammel. 



Abstracts of these papers will appear in the 

 April number of Phytopathology, the new journal 

 of the society, and some of the papers will be 

 published later in the same journal. 



C. L. Shear, 



