174 Pathologist U. S. Depahtment of Agriculture 



ground of practical scientific work. When Galloway was promoted 

 to chief of the Section, he was also elevated to the rank of 

 pathologist. 



In 1888 Merton Benway Waite, BurriU's student and assistant 

 at the University of Illinois, was brought into the employe of the 

 Section. On July 29, 1889, Galloway wrote to Smith, who was then 

 working at St. Joseph, Michigan: "Mr. [David Grandison} Fair- 

 child of Kansas was appointed an assistant in the Section on the 

 25th inst[ant}. He took the examination on the 23rd." Fairchild 

 that year had obtained his second degree, in science, from Kansas 

 State Agricultural College. He was the son of the college's 

 president, George T. Fairchild, who formerly had taught at 

 Michigan Agricultural College, in fact, young Fairchild had been 

 born while his father was professor of English literature and 

 librarian there and his birth had taken place in a home on the 

 campus. A student of William Ashbrook Kellerman in botany 

 and a nephew of Byron David Halsted, Fairchild had been urged 

 to accept employment at Washington by his uncle and by Galloway 

 who was visiting Halsted at New Brunswick when he met Fair- 

 child. By the summer of the year 1889, the Section of Vegetable 

 Pathology, under Galloway's direction, had four assistants: Miss 

 Southworth, Waite, Fairchild, and Smith. 



In March the Section's bulletin no. 9, Smith's preliminary 

 report on peach yellows, was published, and the entire edition of 

 5,000 copies was almost used up within a month. Galloway 

 reported at the end of the year: *" 



There have been nearly two thousand five hundred applications for this 

 bulletin in excess of the edition, and the plates used in illustrating it have 

 been purchased by a number of horticultural societies, their plan being to 

 publish extracts from it in their annual reports. 



In the same annual report, Galloway included a summary of the 

 results of Smith's continued field examinations in Michigan, Mary- 

 land, and Delaware, and what disclosures BurriU could add July 

 1, 1889, to the special investigations he had undertaken in Illinois 

 since 1888 to ascertain the malady's cause. ®^ 



Many plant scientists wrote Smith and praised his report. 



*" Report of the Section of Vegetable Pathology, First Report of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, 397-432 at p. 397, Washington, Gov't Print. Off., 1889. 

 ^^"■Ibid, All-All). See BurriU's letter, pp. A11-A15. 



