Lanterna Rally

Author: Herman S. Forest

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-18

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780260949431

Excerpt from The American Chestnut, a Bibliography: A Bibliography of References to Castanea Dentata and Other Chestnut Species, and on Chestnut Blight and Its Causal Pathogen of the Fungal Genus Endothia or Cryphonectria In working with a bibliography over a period of 12 years, trends in research and publication become apparent. Jean Q. Wade carefully tabulated the entries by time period and subject, providing the data for a few observations here: The interest in fungi, particularly pathogens, was strong in the 19th Century and continues today. In contrast, nucleic acid and other biochemical studies are relatively recent. In the early blight period, there was a major effort to understand the life cycle, spread, and pathogenic action of the blight fungus. There has been only one attempt to summarize the history of the blight and research related to the blight, Fifty years of Chestnut Blight in America (beattie and Diller, They observed that, All of the cooperative work (among Federal and State scientists) slowed and almost came to a close in 1914 and 1915 when chestnut blight appropriations were greatly reduced. The organizations were broken up and the men scattered to do other work. The attempt to understand and stop the blight was meager. From 1906 to 1910, (while the disease was spreading north, south, and west from New York City), only a few hundred dollars a years of Federal money were In that year (1911) Congress appropriated In 1912 an appropriation of was made, and this was repeated the following the Pennsylvania legislature appropriated for the 1913-14 biennium (beattie and Diller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.