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tently each had sought to aid the other. Not in the least had 

 Spalding's admiration for Smith's accomplishments diminished, 

 either. On August 7, 1896, he again praised Smith's work: 



I most heartily congratulate you on the actual results you have been able 

 to attain. I set a high value on these accounts of your work, knowing as 

 I do that every bit of work you do is done with downright honesty and 

 done to last. . . . When your bacterial and physiological studies keep 

 coming to me, and [Douglas Houghton] Campbell sends me his work on 

 Archegoniata, and I call to mind the excellent work of still others who 

 used to have a place in the Michigan laboratory, I wonder what I have 

 been doing all these years ! I don't utterly give up hope of accomplishing 

 something yet, but you have conducted investigations enough to form some 

 conception of how rapidly such work would progress if you gave three- 

 fourths of your time and nine-tenths of your energy to teaching, organiza- 

 tion, university committees, and the administrative duties inseparable from 

 the direction of a laboratory that has had to be made almost de novo. At 

 present I must "" wait upon teaching ". . . . 



Never once, however, during this or any year hereafter does it 

 appear certain that Smith consulted Spalding with reference to 

 employment for himself. Smith must have believed that his work 

 could be best furthered in a university where agriculture and 

 veterinary science, and medicine too, were taught, and experi- 

 mental laboratories and research in each provided. 



March 11, 1896, Halsted communicated to Galloway news, 

 recently received from A. B. Seymour of Harvard, that his and 

 Farlow's " Index to the literature of North American Fungi " 

 was complete, containing something like 100,000 references. A 

 movement to have the work printed was now to be set in motion, 

 indicating the progress thus far made in the study of fungi. This 

 year Fliigge's Microdrganismen mit hesonderen Berikkskhti gung 

 der Aetiologie der hijektionskrankheiten in third edition, a work 

 of several authors, and describing l6l kinds of bacteria, appeared. 

 This showed, Smith later said,-" 



to what extent pathologists and bacteriologists had already multiplied and 

 become interested in culture methods and classifications. Already 22 groups 

 of the rod-shaped bacteria were recognized, of which at least 16 groups 

 contained parasites; not to mention Coccaceae and Spirillaceae, in which 

 groups also parasites had been found ; not to mention also Protozoans. The 

 latter were divided into 4 main groups each containing parasites. Nothing, 



^® Fifty years of pathology, op. cit., 26. 



