56 HISTORY or PHYTOPATHOLOGY 



on Diseases caused by fungi in his Outlines of British 

 fungology^ gives an excellent picture of British knowl- 

 edge of the subject at the opening of the Kiihnian period. 



Miles Joseph Berkeley. 



First noted English plant pathologist. (From a photograph, courtesy 



of Dr. L. R. Hesler.) 



One of the best of his contributions, aside from those 

 mentioned, is his paper on potato murrain^ which had 



' Berkeley, M. J.: Outlines of British fungology containing characters 

 of, above a thousand species of fungi and a complete list of all that have 

 been described as natives of the British Isles, pp. I-XV + 1-442, London, 

 1860. 



^ Berkeley, M. J.: Observations, botanical and physiological, on the 

 potato murrain. Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. of London, I : 9-34, 1846. 



