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England contributed to this period but two plant 

 pathologists of note— H. Marshall Ward and D. Mc- 

 Alpine. Ward, because of his physiologic training and 

 point of view, is to be classed with Sorauer as a pre- 

 dispositionist. McAlpine, on the other hand, is shown 

 by his work to be an orthodox pathogenetist. 



Daniel McAlpine. 

 Noted Australian plant pathologist. (From a photograph.) 



Daniel McAlpine, vegetable pathologist to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of Victoria, Australia, though trained 

 in England, has made his reputation entirely through 

 his lifelong labors in the Australian commonwealth. His 

 work on the fungous diseases of Austrahan crops and 

 native plants, especially his monographs of the rusts and 

 the smuts, are well known to his contemporaries through- 



