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bactcriolooist of the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario, Dr. 

 Wyatt Johnston, bacteriologist of the Quebec Board of Health, 

 and, very important, to Dr. J. Cieorgc Adami, professor of path- 

 ology at McCiill University, Montreal, he also sent reprints; like- 

 wise, to Dr. T. iM. ("hcesman, instructor in bacteriology at the 

 College of Physician and Surgeons, to J. Christian Bay of the Iowa 

 State Board of Health, and in 1898 to Dr. Jacques Loeb of the 

 Physiological Laboratory of the University of Chicago. Among 

 Washington correspondents to whom copies were sent were Dr. 

 Charles Smart, deputy surgeon-general, and Dr. J. J. Kinyoun of 

 the bacteriologicaP laboratory and Marine Hospital service of the 

 government. Many entomologists, horticulturists, and, of course, 

 many, many botanists received Smith's scientific literature. To list 

 the botanists would probably require repeating the entire distin- 

 guished membership of the Botanical Society of America. Not 

 unlikely, therefore, many members of the newly formed Society 

 of American Bacteriologists were familiar with the principal inten- 

 tion of Smith's botanical work during the years 1896-1898. As an 

 American leader in plant pathology,^" he was accepted into mem- 

 bership in the Societ}'. Many of the early members had been his 

 friends for several years: Sedgwick, Abbott, Conn, Fuller, Jordan, 

 Prescott, Adami, Johnston, Prudden, and especially Vaughan, 

 Sternberg, Welch, Moore, and Theobald Smith. 



At the dinner of December 27 to which Dr. Welch invited him, 

 Smith saved a memento which indicates that he sat with Theobald 

 Smith, Flexner, Jordan, Harold Clarence Ernst, Edward Kellogg 

 Dunham, and one or two others. Dr. Welch was elected president 

 of the Society and Dr. Jordan vice-president. Little must Smith 

 have then realized how interested many of these men would be- 

 come in his work when, during the next decade, he would institute 

 elaborate studies of crown gall in plants, and reason, with authen- 

 tic proof, an analogy to cancer in animals and man. 



On December 9, 1897, Dr. Thomas B. Carpenter, assistant bac- 

 teriologist of the Department of Health at Buffalo, had thanked 

 Smith for his reprints on bacterial diseases of plants and written 

 for " other studies." He was a doctor of medicine and probably 

 was acquainted with Dr. Roswell Park,"° Professor of Surgery 



^** C.-E. A. Winslow, The first forty years of the Society of American Bacteriol- 

 ogists, op. cit. 



"^ Charles G. Stockton, M. D., Roswell Park: a memoir, Buffalo Hist. Soc. Publ. 



