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the achaiKcs in bacteriology been that the comparatively new 

 science had Mitually appropriated the field of microbiology. 



A second reason wliv Smith may not have found it possible to 

 deliver the address on plant pathology at the International Con- 

 gress of Arts and Science was that he was completing the first 

 volume of his treatise. Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases. 

 January 2^, 1904, Secretary Charles D. Walcott of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington had informed that the executive com- 

 mittee had agreed to publish the monograph and requested " a 

 statement of the ejctent of text and illustrations." June 6, the day 

 Smith sent to Newcomb his refusal of the honor of the address, 

 Galloway recommended to Secretary Wilson that Smith's pub- 

 lishing arrangement with the Carnegie Institution be approved 

 since the work would " be a valuable addition to our knowledge 

 of bacteriology, and [would] place before the world very fully 

 the advances that have been made, especially by this Department, 

 in the last fifteen years." 



Dr. Ira Remsen "" grilled " Smith on the subject matter and 

 Smith believed that the outcome of this conference secured the 

 executive committee's approval. His friend, Dr. Robert Simpson 

 Woodward, was not yet president of the Institution. Before the 

 interview with Dr. Remsen, the author had conferred with Dr. 

 Osier, Dr. Welch, and others of the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 Faculty, and, perhaps, with Dr. Weir Mitchell, Dr. Billings, and 

 others influential in medical bacteriology. November 6, 1903, 

 when Smith had appealed to Farlow to help him find a publisher, 

 he had examined experimentally and photographed forty-eight of 

 the one hundred and twenty-five bacterial diseases of plants to 

 be dealt with in the work. Part of the material had then been in 

 manuscript for four years. His desire then was to publish all in 

 one, or several, volumes; at least, to publish parts and at regular 

 intervals. For some years he had planned to include an outline 

 of laboratory methods, and upon the history and growth of plant 

 bacteriology he had written and spoken. By 1904 he possessed 

 about five hundred illustrations, most of these original and unpub- 

 lished, and an uncompleted text of some two thousand typewritten 

 pages. So pleased had Dr. Welch been with his work he at first 

 suggested that Johns Hopkins University might publish it. " I am 

 contemplating a trip to Europe next year," Smith told Farlow in 



