388 Chief of a Laboratory of Plant Pathology 



of North American Mycology for the year 1901." He asked Smith 

 not only for the list but also for something written to be published 

 in the second number of the Journal. " I wish to include the 

 botanical side of Bacteriology," said Dr. Kellerman, " and will 

 be pleased to have your assistance along this line from time to 

 time." In January of the previous year, James McKeen Cattell of 

 the editorial department of The Popular Science Monthly had 

 asked Smith to supply " some notes on botany and especially on 

 physiological botany." Smith already had more work than he 

 could do with the thoroughness and exactitude which characterized 

 his every effort. Each year his work had increased, not lessened. 

 Because of many things to do in his laboratory, aside from com- 

 pleting the manuscript material for the first volume of Bacteria 

 in Relation to Plant Diseases, he had to refuse some offers which 

 a few years before might have been esteemed as opportunities. 

 Bacteriologists encouraged Smith to complete his " very valuable 

 work." 



June 28, 1905, Smith's salary was increased to $2,750 per 

 annum. September 22, he addressed a letter to Farlow: 



It is with mingled feelings that I am sending you the first volume of 

 my new book. I hope that at least some things in it will meet your approval 

 and seem to you to have been worth the doing. I have made quite a 

 number of changes in generic nomenclature, but have at the same time 

 tried to be conservative. If I were to do the book over again I think 

 I should enlarge some portions and restrict others, but good or bad, it is 

 too late for any regrets of that sort. The printers were unconscionably slow 

 and the thing has been running through the press for 15 months, but I am 

 in hopes we can make shorter work of the remaining volumes. 



I did hope to get up into New England this summer, but the time 

 has passed, and every minute of it was very fully occupied here in 

 Washington. . . . 



Dr. Farlow was pleased with the volume. Dr. Kellerman wrote 

 that 



It is a splendid work, gotten up in nice shape, and as useful as attractive. 

 Such work as this is certainly most creditable to American mycology — I will 

 not say bacteriology, because the botanists who work in that field will not 

 object to being called mycologists. Your illustrations are as good as illus- 

 trations can be made to-day. I wonder if the next generation can possibly 

 laugh at the work we are issuing to-day, that is to say, particularly the 

 illustrations that we regard as almost perfect ! 



