Of the SciENCi- OF Plant Bacteriology 279 



Strasburqcr's statements in his hook Ueher den Bau unci die 

 Vernchtiingen der Le'itungibabnen in den Pflanzen, and partly to 

 determine, as accurately as possible, the path of the water current 

 in Cucurbitaceous stems, subject to the attack of Bcicillus trachei- 

 philiis," The year before, from work of several Europeans inclu- 

 ding Gonnerman, Smith had prepared another principal article 

 m the nature of a review, on " Root tubercles of Leguminosae." * 

 Between 1892 and 1895 he had selected several important 

 research studies for reviews: among them, Dr. Alfred Fischer's 

 work on the " Phycomycetes " from Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen 

 flora '" and a later 'paper by the same scholar on the physiology 

 and morphology of the flagella, bacterial classification, and plas- 

 molysis of bacteria/' In 1893 he reviewed Dr. Wilhelm Zopf's 

 Die Pi/ze in morphologischer, pbysiologiscber, biologischer uud 

 systematischer Beziehung, for the general student " the best hand- 

 book yet published," and Dr. Oscar Kirchner's Die Krankheiten 

 tind Beschadigungen unserer landwirtschaftlichen Kulturpfianzen, 

 a practical, useful book for farmers and gardeners, " unique in 

 the literature of plant diseases." ' H. Marshall Ward's " Dis- 

 eases of conifers " and his study of the action of light on bacteria 

 were reviewed in 1894-1895.^ Experimental researches done in 

 German laboratories by W. Rothert and Rudolph Aderhold were 

 studied and written up in 1895.'^ The Dutchman Beijerinck's 

 method of detecting the enzym glukase by auxanographic methods 

 and T. W. Engelmann's results as to " Demonstration of photo- 

 syntax by bacteria," ^° were described the same year. June 22, 

 1895, Smith asked Farlow, " Have you seen Woronin's new paper 

 on Sclerotinia padi and S. aucupariae? Fine," he observed, " I like 

 all his w^ork," and then followed Smith's review, " Woronin on 

 Sclerotinia." ^^ Smith recommended for reading, among much 



* Amer. Nat. 29: 893-903, Oct. 1895. 



^ Jour. Mycology 7(2): 135-140, Mar. 1892. 



* Amer. Nat. 29: 847-851, Sept. 1895. Fischer's name given as "Albert" in the 

 review. Smith, however, corrected this later. See Bact. in Rel. to Pi. Dis. 1: 264. 



''Jour. Mycology 7(3): 282-283, May 1893. 



^ Jour. Mycology 7(4): 396-398, Aug. 1895; Amer. Nat. 29: 671-674, July 1895. 



* Uebcr das Schicksal der Cilien bei den Zoosporen der Phycomyceten (W. 

 Rothert), Amer. Nat. 29: 583, June 1895; Rothert on hcliotropism, At7ier. Nat. 29: 

 585, June 1895; Perithecial stage of the apple-scab fungus (Aderhold) Amer. Nat. 

 29: 583-584. June 1895. 



^^ Amer. Nat. 29: 750-753, Aug. 1895. 

 ^"^ Amer. Nat. 29: 749-750, Aug. 1895. 



