J. H. WESTERN

Secretary, Plant Pathology Committee

G. C. AlliSWORTH

Secretary

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PLANT PATHOLOGY FIELD DAY, LONG ASHTON25 June 1943

The Eighteenth Annual Plant Pathology Field Day was held at the Long Ashton ResearchStation, Bristol, by kind permission of the Director, Prof. B. T. B. Barker, M.A., onFriday, 25 June [9'13'

About twenty visitors assembled at Long Ashton for a picnic lunch after which partieswere made up to visit the exhibits and demonstrations prepared by the Station Staff.The subjects dealt with were:

Manurial deficiency symptoms in fruit and vegetables; Spraying techniques andappliances; Potato virus diseases; Didymella on tomato; New developments 11l fungi­cides; Bio-assays of fungicidal value; Mechanism of fungicidal action; Yeasts and cidermaking; and a new form of cider sickness. The exhibits were explained and discussed bythe following: The Director, the Deputy Director (Dr T. Wallace), and Messrs Kearns,Marsh, Charley, Martin, Croxall, Hickman, Wilkinson, Wain and Campbell.

All the demonstrations were greatly appreciated and sincere thanks are due to theDirector and Staff of the Long Ashton Research Station for the trouble they took to makethe meeting both instructive and interesting. The weather played its part nobly andeveryone agreed that the meeting was a great success.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING11 December 1943

The Annual General Meeting was held in the rooms of the Linnean Society of London onSaturday, II December 194-3, with the President, Dr S. P. Wiltshire, in the Chair.

After the Minutes of the last Annual Meeting had been read and signed, the Presidentannounced with deep regret the deaths of five members: Mr A. W. Bartlett, Sir E. J.Butler, Dr Howard A. Kelly, Dr M. Mitra (who died in 1942), and Dr G. Morgan.

In the course of comments on the past year, the President reported that as a result ofrecommendations by the Joint Committee set up by the Society and the Association ofApplied Biologists the Council ofthe Association had recently appointed a Plant Pests andDiseases Committee so that the Society's Plant Pathology Committee could now devoteall its energies to mycological aspects of plant pathology. He also drew attention to theneed for manuscripts intended for publication in the Transactions to be kept as brief aspossible on account of the paper shortage and the great increase in printing costs. Afterhe had expressed the Society's thanks to the Linnean Society for its hospitality, the year'saccounts were submitted by Mr A. A. Pearson and adopted.

The following officers and councillors for [944 were then elected: President, R. W.Marsh, M.A.; Vice-Presidents, G. Smith and the two past-presidents, S. P. Wiltshire andMiss E. M. Blackwell; General Secretary, J. Ramsbottom; Secretary, G. C. Ainsworth;Treasurer, A. A. Pearson; Editors, B: Barnes and H. Wormald; Councillors, Miss 1\1. A.Brett, A. H. Campbell and Miss L. E. Hawker (to replace R. V. Harris, N. C. Preston andG. Smith). The Plant Pathology Committee's nominations ofR. W. G. Dennis, K. St G.Cartwright and N. C. Preston (to replace W. J. Dowson, W. P. K. Findlay and R. W.Marsh] were agreed to. Five new members were elected, making twenty-one for the year.

After the General Secretary had indicated Council's tentative proposals for 1944 therewas an adjournment until 2 o'clock when the President deli vered his address entitled,'The organization of the study of systematic mycology'. A vote of thanks to Dr Wiltshireconcluded the meeting.