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at Portici. He is at present director of the Royal Experi- 

 ment Station for the culture of citrus and other fruits 

 at Acireale. Among his numerous contributions to 

 phytopathology the following merit special mention: 



(1) various papers on the oUve knot, a bacterial gall^; 



(2) a book on the diseases of trees^; and his essay on the 

 phytopathology of the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs.' 



Fridiano Cavara, director of the Royal Botanical 

 Gardens at the University of Naples, has made many 

 contributions since 1888 to Italian phytopathologic 

 literature. According to Smith, ^ Cavara was the first ■ 

 to isolate the crown gall organism and make successful 

 inoculations with it. These investigations were made on 

 the crown gall on grapes and published in 1897.^ 



Augusto Napoleone Berlese is another Italian patho- 

 genetist of this period who deserves mention. His first 

 publication on fungi appeared in 1883 (Lindau and Sydow, 

 Thesaurus, 1 : 135). He is perhaps best known as one 

 of the editors of Rivista di Patologia Vegetale, which 

 began to appear in 1892. He died in 1903. 



We must now turn to a consideration of that other 



' Savastano, Luigi: Tuberculosi, iperplasie e tumori dell'olivo. 

 I-II Memoria, Ann. R. Scuola Sup. Agr. in Portici 5 : 1-131, 1887. 

 See also Smith, Erwin F., Recent studies of the olive tubercle organism, 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. Bu. PI. Ind. Bui. 131 : 25^3, 1908. 



^ Savastano, Luigi: Patologia arborea applicata; lezioni, pp. I-XI + 

 1-666, Napoli, 1910. 



' Savastano, Luigi: La patologia vegetale dei Greci, Latini ed Arabi; 

 memoria, pp. 1-75. Portici, 1890; from Scuola Sup. Agric. Portici Ann., 

 VI, 1890-91. 



* Smith, Erwin F., et al: Crown gall of plants; its cause and remedy, 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. Bu. PI. Ind. Bui. 213: 15, 16, 1911. 



* Cavara, F. : Tubercolosi della vite. In, Intorno alia eziologia di 

 alcune malattie di piante coltivate nota, Sta. Sperim. Agr. Italiane, 

 30 : 483^87, 1897. 



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