Preface 
Federal research on forest tree diseases was begun in 
1899 in St. Louis, Mo., at the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture’s Mississippi Valley Laboratory. The Laboratory was 
discontinued in 1907, and most of the personnel were trans- 
ferred to Washington, D. C., to form the staff of the new 
Laboratory, later Office, then Division of Forest Pathology. 
Though the Division was in the Bureau of Plant Industry, it 
worked in close cooperation with the Forest Service. Dr. 
Haven Metcalf was Chief from 1907 until the time of his 
death in 1940, and Dr. Lee M. Hutchins succeeded him. 
When the Division was transferred to the Forest Service in 
January 1954, the name was changed to Division of Forest 
Disease Research. 
This bibliography consists of more than 2,200 references, 
mainly on research performed by pathologists in the Division. 
It includes a few articles on research partly supported by 
Federal funds. 
References are arranged alphabetically, by authors, and 
cover research from 1899 to January 1954. A few of the 
articles listed were submitted for publication before January 
1954 but were published later. 
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