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tigations on the etiology and nature of soft rots in vege- 

 tables,! and for his work on wilt resistance in cabbage^; 

 B. D. Halstead, for many years botanist of the New 



George F. Atkinson. 

 Noted American botanist and plant pathologist. (From a photograph.) 



Jersey Experiment Station; H. L. BoUey, botanist of the 

 North Dakota Experiment Station. He was the first 



' Jones, L. R.: A soft rot of carrots and other vegetables, caused by 

 Bacillus carolovonis, Jones, Vermont Agr. Exp. Sta. JRep. 13 : 299- 

 332, 1901. See also his paper on, Pectinase, the cytolytic enzyme pro- 

 duced by Bacillus carotovorus and certain other soft-rot organisms. New 

 York (Geneva) Agr. Exp. Sta. Tech. Bui. 11:2: 289-368, 1909. 



2 Jones, L. R.: The control of cabbage yellows through disease re- 

 sistance, Wisconsin Agr. Exp. Sta. Research Bui. 38 : 1-70, 1915 

 (see especially list of papers by Jones, p. 69); also. Fourth progress 

 report on Fusarium resistant cabbage. Abstract in Phytopath., 

 6 : 102, 1916. 



