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and the public wealth, the congress resolves that it is absolutely necessary to estab- 
lish scientific stations exclusively devoted to the study of the diseases of cultivated 
plants among us. 
2. These phytopathologic stations, which, in order to be in the closest relations 
with scientific and practical circles, shall be established in the center of each coun- 
try that is well provided with channels of communication, ought to be State insti- 
tutions, charged with aiding practice by making gratuitous analyses for, and inves- 
tigating and collaborating with, it. 
3. The congress recognizes that observations and experiments made in common 
in all cultivated countries are the best guaranty of success in the search for sure 
and appropriate methods of combating the diseases of plants. Great expense may 
be saved in overcoming future epidemics if, by means of a network of scientific 
observations extending over all cultivated countries, States not yet attacked by plant 
diseases may be warned in time to take the necessary measures. 
4. The congress considers it necessary that the heads of all pathologic stations of 
different countries shall engage to meet ouce a year to discuss and pass the resolu- 
tions which shall be deemed opportune. 
5. The congress elects an international commission, having the right of coapta- 
tion, which shall put itself in relation with the Society of Agriculture of Vienna 
and agree with it as to the measures to be taken toward founding scientific stations 
designed to investigate the diseases of plants, and toward organizing a service of 
phytopathologic inspection in all cultivated countries. 
Following the general meeting at Vienna, the members of the com- 
mission held a consultation meeting at The Hague, Holland. It was 
plain to the members present that the first necessity was the organiza- 
tion of national commissions in the several countries to be represented 
on the international commission. The efforts of the members have, 
therefore, since that date, been devoted to the establishment of such 
national commissions. Institutions for phytopathologic service have 
in this way been organized in Germany, Holland, and Belgium, and are 
being agitated in other European countries. It is the intention of the 
secretary, Dr. Paul Sorauer, of Berlin, editor of the Zeitschrift fiir 
Pflanzenkrankheiten, to call the members of the commission together 
in 1896, at Berlin, on the occasion of the Berlin Industrial Exposition, 
in order to accomplish a more complete international organization, and 
in order to start the annual meetings provided for in the fourth section 
of the Vienna resolutions. 
It must be remembered, moreover, in treating of European countries, 
that, in addition to special commissions to investigate special insect 
problems of temporary importance, there are other classes of official 
work bearing upon insects, which, however, we can hardly consider in 
this connection, mainly for want of space. These are, government 
encouragement of sericulture and apiculture, both through subsidies, 
and the establishment of educational institutions, and further sub- 
sidizing of learned societies, enabling them to carry on investigations 
and publish works of more or less importance. Very considerable good 
has been accomplished in this direction, but the sources of information 
at hand are too scanty to justify any more than a brief reference to the 
existence of such an element in our general subject. 
