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emphasize sanitation and prevention rather that the attempt to 
cure, once the crop is attacked. Remedial measures are discussed 
in detail, both as to the preparation and the application of the 
treatment. These chapters should not prove the least valuable 
portion of tbe book from tbe planter’s standpoint. The book 
closes with an extended bibliography which must prove of great 
value to the student of tropical diseases from whatever angle he 
may approach the subject. 
This work occupies a field so different from that of most works 
on plant pathology that it should be welcomed by the practical 
man of affairs, while it must be of no small value to the plant 
pathologist and to the mycologist in the tropics, as well as to all 
students of tropical fungi. 
Guy West Wilson. 
