178 Pathologist U. S. Department of Agriculture 



March 20, 1889, Pierce had telegraphed to Smith the news that 

 "Mr. Galloway wishe[d} [him] to undertake [the] California 

 Vine investigation." Smith replied and urged him to visit him in 

 Washington before he left for California. "I am anxious to get 

 into the field," wrote Pierce on April 7, 1889, " for I believe every 

 week of growing weather will count with me in the study of the 

 disease." There would be investigations now in plant bacteriology 

 in the Section of Vegetable Pathology. Waite was beginning his 

 studies. Smith had been reading and learning on the subject. 

 Pierce would bring the latest knowledge from a university 

 classroom. 



