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Association, three by the American Phytopathological Society, two by the Associa¬ 
tion of Official Agricultural Chemists, and one by the National Research Council. 
•On the Board of Governors station directors are represented, as it is now constituted, 
since both of the men named by the Agricultural Chemists are directors of stations. 
Mr. Paul Moore is now Secretary of the Crop Protection Institute, being named 
on the Board by the National Research Council. The Treasurership is now the 
same as that of the research Council. All funds are handled through the regular 
machinery in the office of the Bursar of the National Research Council. 
The industrial activity of the Institute has been widening and strengthening. 
The work of the Institute has gradually assumed a project aspect. By that I mean 
that its major activities are developing along lines of definite projects which are 
underwritten by specified funds made available to the Institute from various sources. 
It has strengthened its research aspect. It has now two well supported active 
projects on hand which are almost entirely research in their aspects. That does not 
mean that there are not other aspects besides those of research, but wisely and prop¬ 
erly research is coming to have a prominent part in its plans and activities. 
The active projects are as follows: 
1. Sulphur Investigations. The plans for these were completed this year. The 
fellowships are supported by the three large sulphur producing companies of this 
country—The Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., Union Sulphur Co., and the Freeport Sul¬ 
phur Company. These united with the institute in a joint agreement, -by which 
they are supporting research for a period of two years, at a total appropriation of 
fifteen thousand dollars. A special committee of the Board of Governors of the In¬ 
stitute is in charge of that research. This committee placed the proposition before 
station directors and some presidents of universities east of the Rocky M ountains, 
and were offered very substantial support by more than fifteen directors of stations 
and universities. 
Two men were selected as investigators. The project was divided into two parts 
—the entomological aspect and the fungicidal aspect. Mr. F. H. Lathrop is the in¬ 
vestigator in charge of the entomological aspect and Mr. H. C. Young is in charge 
of the pathological aspect. 
It is a pleasure to say that unusual progress has been made in this work. The 
fungicidal aspect was begun first and Mr. Young has already worked out fundamental 
facts of great importance in the use of spray materials containing sulphur. Some of 
these discoveries will be set forth in a paper which will be read this afternoon before 
the plant pathologists and will be published as a bulletin by the Crop Protection 
Institute. I may indicate informally, that the data show that lime sulphur is a 
fungicide in a peculiar and unsuspected way, that its original caustic action is its 
first and most prominent fungicidal action, and that further fungicidal effects are 
due solely to precipitated, finely divided sulphur and not at all to the various com¬ 
pounds of sulphur in the material, as we had supposed before this. 
The entomological aspect of the sulphur investigations is developing substantially. 
The Board is confident that both of these investigations will lead definitely to facts 
that are of great importance to our professional work and to that of the plant path¬ 
ologists. 
In this and in some other work that the Institute undertakes it seeks such expert 
counsel as may be available in industrial organizations. For example, the sulphur 
producing companies are represented in their contacts with the Institute by Dr. 
