Of the SauNct oi- Plant Bacti-riology 293 



of agriculture and director of the agricultural experiment station 

 of Wisconsin, llxpcritiicnt St.ition Record ''■' in 189-1 formally 

 noticed that he had 



entered upon his work at the station in September and [wouKI] devote 

 himself almost wholly to the study of the termcntations of milk and its 

 products. By comhinini; his elTorts with those of Dr. Babcock the station 

 hope[d] to contribute materially to the knowledge of dairying. With the 

 coming of Dr. Russell the university offer [ed] an advanced course of dairy 

 instruction. ... 



Dairy bacteriology, therefore, became Russell's specialty. In 

 1894-1905 he published Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology and in 

 1898 Agricultural Bacteriology. Some further work in plant dis- 

 eases, however, was also done, notably that in "A Bacterial Rot 

 of Cabbage and Allied Plants," with Harry Alexis Harding who 

 graduated in science from the university in 1896 and obtained 

 while serving as a fellow 1897-1898 his degree of master of science 

 in 1898. Harding studied for a while in Europe and at Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, became in 1899 bacteriologist of 

 the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, earned 

 his doctorate of philosophy degree at Cornell University in 1910, 

 and in 1913 was appointed professor of dairy bacteriology at the 

 University of Illinois. 



In 1895, before Section G at the Springfield, Massachusetts, 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, Russell's preliminary notice of "A leaf-rot of cabbages " ^^ 

 was read. Smith was in South Carolina when this meeeting took 

 place. His tvv'o papers on " The Watermelon Wilt and other Wilt 

 Diseases due to Fusarium " and " The Southern Tomato Blight " ^° 

 were read for him to Section G by Albert F. Woods. The cabbage 

 leaf-rot had been called to Russell's attention in July 1895. 

 Pammel three years before had discovered the organism which 

 caused this disease. Russell, however, believed that he had estab- 

 lished its pathogenicity only as to rutabagas and turnips and had 

 not connected it with other species of Brassica, more specifically, 

 the cabbage and cauliflower rot. Since the disease had been found 



"5 (4): 443, 1894. 



^^Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 44: 193, 1895. See also, H. L. Russell, A bacterial 

 disease of cabbage and allied plants, Proc. 11th Amer. Coll. and Exp't Sta., 86, 

 prepared for meeting of July 1897. 



^"Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sc:. 44: 190 f., 1895. 



