Ri( ocN'iTioN oi- Plant H.\rT!-Rioi ocv in Eukopf. 337 



It is new business for inc and rather hard, the more so as I found 

 lu) time to prepare tliem in advance." 



The following year, in July, Smith was again at Woods Hole, 

 but as to whether he lectured on cither plant pathology or plant 

 bacteriology or both is wot known. On August, 1901, however, 

 again there, he wrote to Woods: 



We have now been here a week and are well into the spirit of the place 

 and of the season. 



The summer school doses Tuesday next, after which there will be an 

 exodus and then the place will be quieter. The laboratory season has been 

 prosperous. 285 people eat at the mess table. How many are actually 

 registered and doing '^v'ork in the various laboratories I have not enquired. 

 Zoology get the major portion of the students, but in the Bot[anical] 

 Iab[oratory] I counted 23 at one of [Rodney H.] True's lectures. Next 

 year [Bradley Moore] Davis wishes to have the Bot[anical] Lab[oratory] 

 enlarged. This needed improvement will cost about $1600. There have 

 been four teachers this year — Davis, True, [George T.] Moore, and Shaw — 

 the latter, one of MacFarlane's students, has conducted the class in ecology. 



Lectures have been fewer than usual this year. Generally there is a super- 

 fluity. I have heard three — two by Dr. Parker of Harvard on the sense 

 perceptions of Crustaceans — very interesting, and one by Dr. Reighard of 

 University of Michigan — a lantern slide lecture on the breeding habits, nest 

 building, care of young, etc. of certain fishes — viz. Lamper eel, sun fish, 

 and dog fish — also interesting. 



My own lecture (the lantern slide one on bacterial diseases of plants) 

 closed the season. Had a good audience, and apparently an interested one. 



I have been so busy getting started in my own work that I have not been 

 around much and don't yet know all of the Zoologists, who are teaching 

 or at work here. I have met Whitman, Loeb, [Caswell] Grave (of Johns 

 Hopkins), Bigelow (of Boston), Lillie,^^ and two or three others. In the 

 Fish Commission Laboratories there are fewer special workers than last 

 year. Generally these laboratories have been overcrowded, partly, no doubt, 

 owing to Dr. Bumpus' very attractive personality. I miss his genial presence 

 about the Fish Com[mission] buildings very much. He is now director in 

 chief (practically at least) of the Natural history museum in New York 

 and is probably so tied by executive duties that he will never find time to 

 come here any more. He will do great things for the Museum, however. 

 Dr. Hugh Smith, of Washington, who has taken his place as Scientific 

 Director of the Fish Com[mission] work here, is interested in the work 

 and very nice, so far as I have observed, but he is very reserved and quiet, 

 too much to be popular. By his invitation we have been out once on the 



*' Frank R. Lillie, The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, 35-52, Univ. 

 of Chicago Press, 1944. Much of the material of the next paragraph has been based 

 on this book, some chapters of which Edwin Grant Conklin, professor-emeritus of 

 biology of Princeton University, wrote. 



