94 HISTORY OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY 



Senator in 1897 he was forced to give up the chair of 

 botany which he had occupied since its creation. 



George Delacroix was born in 1858 in Paris. The 

 second of six children of a poor family, he suffered great 

 hardships and privations in his struggle to get an educa- 

 tion and fit himself for the profession of medicine. While 

 still a student he exhibited a great interest in botany and 



Edouard Prillieux. 

 Founder of phytopathology in France. (From a portrait in "Bulletin 

 de la Soci6t6 Mycologique de France," vol. xxxii.) 



was able during the years of his struggle as a young 

 physician to find time for botanical excursions with the 

 noted mycologist Boudier. In this way he acquired an 

 extensive knowledge of the fungi. In 1888 he was offered 

 a position with Prillieux as assistant in the laboratory of 

 Plant Pathology in the Institut Agronomique, which he 

 accepted. On the retirement of Prillieux in 1897 he was- 



