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tain and piedmont sections, but chiefly destructive in 

 the mountains. San Jose Scale, occurs in various 

 localities in all sections of the state and has been 

 spread largely by shipment of infested plants. 

 Strawberry Weevil, occurs in the strawberry-growing 

 region in the southeast with questionable records for 

 the counties of Wilson, Richmond, and Buncombe. 



4. A New Apple-tree Disease. F. L. Stevens. 



A disease designated as scurf was described. It is an 

 infection of the bark on young twigs, causing a 

 wrinkling and cracking, somewhat resembling the 

 San Jose scale in appearance. The fungus causing 

 this disease was exhibited in pure plate and tub cul- 

 ture before the Academy. Inoculation experiments 

 are in progress, and a canvas of the state is being 

 made in order to determine the extent of distribution 

 and seriousness of the disease. 

 Remainder of the papers were withheld to be read at the 

 Joint Session with the North Carolina Section of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society. 



The Academy then proceeded with the business of the 

 regular business meeting and upon report of the nominating 

 committee and by ballot the following officers for the next 

 year were elected: 



President, Prof. Jno. F. Lanneau, Wake Forest. 

 Vice-President, Dr, Tait Butler, Dept. Agr. Raleigh. 

 Secretary-! reasurer, Dr. F. L. Stevens, A. & M. College, 

 West Raleigh. 



Executive Committee: — Prof. Jno. F. Lanneau, ex officio, 

 Dr. F. L. Stevens, Prof. Collier Cobb, Chapel Hill; Mr. 

 H. H. Brimley, Dept. Agr., Raleigh; Mr. F. Sherman, Jr., 

 Dept. Agr., Raleigh. 



At this point the members of the Chemical Society entered 

 and the Academy proceeded to the business of the joint ses- 

 sion, at which the following papers were presented: 



1. The Science of Plant Pathology, (Presidential 

 Address of President) F. L. Stevens for the Academy, 

 (Appears in full in this issued 



