Ri-ccxiNiTioN OF Plant Bacthriology in Europi- 387 



bacteria arc destroyed by every winter, and those wliich survive 

 come throu^li in the form of endospores or some other resistant 

 shape." Smith also submitted before the meetin^^ an " Exhibition 

 of Cultures on Starch Jelly and on Silicate Jelly." "'' Nutrient 

 starch jelly had been described in 1898 at the Boston meetint; 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: 

 and the second, to appear more fully in the first volume of 

 Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases,^* represented an exten- 

 sion of his earlier paper, " Some little-used culture media which 

 have proved valuable for differentiation of species." More than 

 once he combined the subject matter of his papers with materials 

 for the text of his monograph. His paper, " Growth of Bacteria 

 in the presence of Chloroform and Thymol," ^^ first given at Balti- 

 more before the Society of American Bacteriologists in 1900, was 

 elaborated more fully several years later in the first volume of his 

 text. 



In 1904, at Philadelphia, Smith presented before the eighth 

 meeting of the Society for Plant Alorphology and Physiology 

 three papers: one, results from experiments continued in 1904 on 

 stomatal infections of black spot of plum; another, on " Burrill's 

 Disease of Broom Corn," ^^ results of continued study that summer 

 with Miss Florence Hedges on one of the Department's farms at 

 Washington; and, third, the results of his studies at Baracoa, 

 Mata, and Yumuri in eastern Cuba of "" The Bud Rot of the 

 Coconut Palm in the West Indies." ®' In the spring of that year 

 he and Rorer had journeyed via Miami to the Bahamas and Cuba, 

 and studied the disease in April. 



April 26, 1902, W. A. Kellerman, announcing to Smith that he 

 was '" arranging to take up again the Journal of Mycology, and 

 make it a Quarterly to represent all phases of the subject, except 

 the purely economic side," asked Smith for a list of his recently 

 published writings. This scholar was preparing " a Bibliography 

 and Index (author and subject — also host index of new species) 



•» Idem, 482. 



•*0p. cit. (starch jelly), 50, 196; (silicate jelly) 36, 198. See also, Proc. Amer. 

 Assoc. Adv. Sci. 47: 411-412, 412-413, 1898. 



^^ Science, n. s., 13(322): 327, 1901; Bacteria in Relation to Plant Disease, op. 

 cit., 1: 74. 



"^Science, n. s., 21(535): 502-503, March 31, 1905. 



*'' Idem, 501-502. 



