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Publications

• C. L. Shear. 1910. The American Phytopathological Society. Part I. Science 31:746-757.
• C. L. Shear. 1910. The American Phytopathological Society. Part II. Science 31:790-799.
• H. H. Whetzel. 1918. An Outline of the History of Phytopathology. W.B. Saunders Company.
• L. R. Jones. 1919. Our journal Phytopathology. Phytopathology 9:159-164. 
• C. L. Shear. 1919. First decade of the American Phytopathological Society.
  Phytopathology 9:165-170. 
• S. E. A. McCallan. 1959. The American Phytopathological Society–The first fifty years. Pages 24-31 in: Plant Pathology: Problems and Progress, 1908-1958. C.S. Holton, G.W. Fischer, R.W. Fulton, H. Hart, and S.E.A. McCallan, eds. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
• G. C. Ainsworth. 1981. Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press.
• R. Aycock and D. R. Fravel. 1983. Our relationships to other scientific societies and organizations in the past 75 years. Pages 14-22 in: Challenging Problems in Plant Health. T. Kommedahl and P.H. Williams, eds. APS.
• C. L. Campbell, P. D. Peterson, and C. S. Griffith. 1999. The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States. APS.​
• R. J. Cook and D. M. Eastburn. 2008. Memorable Milestones: The American Phytopathological Society Centennial Collection. APS.
• P. D. Peterson and K-B. G. Scholthof. 2010. The society that almost wasn’t: Issues of professional identity and the creation of the American Phytopathological Society in 1908.
  Phytopathology 100:14-20.
• P.D. Peterson, S.C. Nelson, and K-B G. Scholthof. 2017. A beacon for applied plant pathology: The origins of Plant Disease. Plant Disease 101:1836-1842. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-06-17-0836-FE​
  

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