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with other German botanical journals? I think I wrote you about buying 

 Sachs" " Vorlcsunt;cn iibcr Pflanztn Fhysioloi^ie." It is a great book in 

 more senses than one. I think 1 shall send for deBary's " Vcrglcichendc 

 Anatomic dec Vcgetationsorgane dcr Phancrogamen und Fame," and 

 [Karl von] Goebel's '" Grundziige der Systematik und spccicllen PHanzen- 

 physiologic." I want both very much. I am half through the first volume 

 ot the third edition of Duchartrc's " l-lements." The style of the book 

 pleases me. It is more interesting than a novel. 



The previous year Bailey had written that he was enjoying the 

 "' privilege of attending Dr. Goodale's lectures " at Harvard. By 

 August 1884 Smith was reading Sachs's Vorlesiingen iiber Pflafi- 

 "zefi-Physiologie and comparing its subject matter with the last 

 edition of the great German botanist's Lehrbuch der Botanik. He 

 found that the author had "changed views considerably." This 

 he said in a letter to G. Hylten-Cavallius of Lund, Sweden, and 

 since plant specimens were sent to this correspondent through the 

 Gray Herbarium, another exchange of letters with Bailey took 

 place. For some time he had been urging Smith to spend a year 

 in study at Harvard. Smith had confessed he would " be only too 

 glad to study at Cambridge," but it would not be possible this 

 year. Someday, he promised, he would leave the " tread-mill " and 

 " drudgery" of much of his work, and go to college, but till such 

 time as he could afford it, he would have to be content. 



Late in August 1884 a Reverend Mr. Rork, who was moving his 

 school from Sherwood, Michigan, to Lansing, asked Smith to 

 teach classes in botany and French. By mid-October, instead of 

 teaching botany and French, Smith had a class of thirty-two young 

 men and women in physiology and hygiene. This work, also, was 

 in addition to his regular duties with the Board of Health. Jerome 

 Walker's Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene was the text used 

 and he recommended it to readers of the Michigan School Mod- 

 erator.^^"- Smith believed Martin's Human Body (Henry Holt and 

 Co., New York) "the best Physiology yet approved'' by school 

 boards, but Walker's book was "one of the best" and published 

 that year. Smith's teaching, a " labor one of love," he told Charles 

 F. Wheeler, took place each day after dinner and lasted forty 

 minutes. " I use a text," he wrote his mother December 14, 1884, 



But we have dissections in the class room (cats, etc.) and I get as much 

 material for study as is convenient from the butcher shops. I also make 



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