360 Chief of a Laboratory of Plant Pathology 



versity of Chicago, later of the University of Pennsylvania, and 

 still later of the University of Michigan, promised to send to 

 Smith 



in a day or two the program of Botany for next season at the Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory. You will see [wrote Davis] that we have made some 

 advance but not as much as we had hoped. A course in plant physiology 

 is added to our program but we have not been able to introduce ecology 

 for lack of room. 



We hope to have an addition to our building soon and then can add 

 this subject which is very appropriate for our conditions at Woods Hole. 



You remember your promise to bring up before the proper persons the 

 proposition to have the Dept. of Agric. subscribe for one or two rooms to 

 be reserved for members of the department and where they might work 

 during the summer in a comfortable climate and pleasant surroundings. 

 Have you taken this matter up yet and if so how far has it progressed 7 



July 30, 1900, Galloway addressed a letter to Smith at Woods 

 Hole, part of which read: "All arrangements have been made 

 for the laboratory facilities at Woods Hole, so that you can feel 

 perfectly free in the matter now." 



In 1902 Smith was to be honored by being elected a trustee 

 of the Marine Biological Laboratory and was to retain this 

 position for twenty years or until 1921.*" 



The year 1901 was a triumphant one for him in many ways. 

 July 17 of that year, H. C. Ernst, bacteriologist and editor of the 

 Journal of Medical Research, writing from Manomet, Plymouth 

 County, Massachusetts, invited him to submit to the journal the 

 results of his further investigations on diseases of plants. So 

 pleased with his articles already published was Ernst that he was 

 re-reading them carefully, and he assured Smith that the Journal 

 which was just then being started had the support of " many of 

 the best men in the country." Dr. George M. Sternberg, by letter 

 of May 7, requested Smith to send him " the publications con- 

 taining an account of the bacteria pathogenic for plants, which 

 you have described. I wish," said the Surgeon-General, " to 

 introduce a brief description of these bacteria in a revised edition 

 of my Text-Book of Bacteriology, which I am now at work upon." 



March 29, 1901, Professor Doctor Beyerinck of the Bacteri- 

 ological Laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute of Delft, Holland, 

 " respectfully and obediently " thanked Smith very much and with 



*^ Frank R. Lillie, The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, op. cit., 255. 



