GALLOWAY,BEVERLY,T - VISIONARY ADMINISTRATOR

With a career that began at the University of Missouri in the early 18 80s and culminated at the USDA in the 1930s, Beverly Galloway devoted his life to practical botany and agriculture. He became a driving forc e in the movement for ''New Botany'' during a period that stressed an experimental approach as well as new disciplines such as plant patholo gy. As administrator and scientist, he was arguably the single, most i nfluential figure involved in the early growth and development of plan t pathology and the plant sciences generally in the USDA. Rom assistan t mycologist in the Section of Mycology to Chief of the Bureau of Plan t Industry to Assistant Secretary of the USDA, Galloway displayed exce ptional administrative acumen. His administrative and scientific skill s were instrumental in laying the foundations for the science of plant pathology during its formative period in the United States.