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production of domestic tea, the office of foreign seed and plant 

 introduction, and the Congressional seed distribution, were added. 

 B. T. Cialloway was appt)inted chief of the Bureau which now 

 had more than two hundred efficient workers. A. l\ Woods was 

 in charge of the office of vegetable pathological and physiological 

 investigations. F. V. Coville remained as botanist in charge of 

 botanical investigations and experiments. F. Lamson-Scribner who 

 for nearly eight years had been agrostologist of the Department 

 was appointed chief of the insular bureau of agriculture of the 

 Philippine Commission,^'' and William Jasper Spillman, since 1894 

 a scientific agriculturist with the Department, was made agros- 

 tologist in charge of grass and forage plant investigations. G. B. 

 Brackett continued to serve as pomologist in charge of pomological 

 investigations. L. C. Corbett was placed in the position of horti- 

 culturist of the Bureau. 



Smith's work in plant pathology and bacteriology had merited 

 recognition for several years. This now came, not simply as 

 another increase in salary, this time from $2,000 to $2,500 a year. 

 A Laboratory of Plant Pathology was created and placed in his 

 immediate charge. Its importance as a scientific research unit 

 within the Bureau was not to be exceeded by any other, although, 

 of course, the equally important Laboratory of Plant Breeding 

 placed in the immediate charge of H. J. Webber represented a 

 similar recognition. Webber in 1899 had been the Department's 

 official representative at the first International Conference on Hy- 

 bridisation and Plant Breeding which was held at Chiswick 

 (London), Fngland. 



In 1898, when the full amount of a requested appropriation for 

 plant breeding experiments was not granted. Woods and Webber 

 refused to be discouraged. Woods wrote Smith, "A good deal 

 can be done with $5000," and the work continuing, within three 

 years such valuable cotton improvements had been secured by 

 Webber and Orton that the former on September 4, 1901, urged 

 Woods to seek a $40,000 annual appropriation for plant breeding. 



Smith took an active part in obtaining increased sums of money 

 for " experiments in the breeding of orchard fruits, cereals, 

 tobacco, and other plants to secure improved varieties and varie- 



*^ Yearbook of the U. S. Dep't of Agric. for 1901, op. cit., 525. 



