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society. This journal, under the editorship of L. R. 

 Jones, of the University of Wisconsin, and later Donald 

 Reddick, of Cornell University, has been from the begin- 

 ning a marked success. In it appears from year to year 

 the first reports on new discoveries by American pathol- 

 ogists as well as contributions from foreign members. 

 The journal has obtained a wide circulation abroad and 

 has created a most favorable impression upon our foreign 

 colleagues. This society and the journal it publishes has 

 done more to stimulate and unify the phytopathologic 

 work and workers of this country than any other one 

 thing. 



The United States Quarantine Act of 1912. — Congress- 

 man Simmons of New York introduced into the Sixty- 

 second Congress at its second session a bill to regulate 

 the importation by the national government of nursery 

 stock. This finally became a law in the form of the 

 National Quarantine Act of 1912. * This was the first 

 national enactment aimed at the exclusion, from this 

 country, of insect pests and plant diseases. Other coun- 

 tries for years had various laws of this type, for the most 

 part ineffective. The enactment of this measure, to- 

 gether with the estabhshment of a Federal Horticultural 

 Board, marks a new period in the plant pathology not 

 only of this country but of other countries as well. The 

 exclusion of potatoes and certain nursery stock to protect 



1 The text of this act may be found in Circular 41 : 7-11, office of the 

 secretary, U. S. Department of Agriculture, issued- September 25, 1912, 

 under the title: Rules and regulations for carrying out the plant quaran- 

 tine act. Also in revised edition of Circular 41 of December 20, 1912; 

 in Circular 44 : 12-15, May 26, 1913, text as amended March 4, 1913; 

 and in unnumbered circulars issued by the Federal Horticultural Board, 

 one of July 1, 1914. 



