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\'our bibliourajihy will be most useful to everyone — as I know the 

 remainder will be to those who work with bacteria. 



I have in mind to issue a number of the Mycoloi^ical Bulletin devoting 

 the entire space to bacteria. ... I would like to have this number refer 

 mainly to your splendid volume. 



C. E. Bessey, " very much pleased with the new book," announced 

 that he would have it reviewed in Science by himself or a friend 

 in bacteriology. P. H. Rolfs, pathologist in charge of the Sub- 

 tropical Laboratory at Miami, called the book " an epoch making 

 one in plant bacteriology." He was sure " that the vegetable 

 pathologists [would] feel very grateful to [Smith] for bringing 

 together this immense amount of material." L. H. Pammel offered 

 to review it in the American Naturalist or the Centralblatt. He 

 congratulated the author "on this important monograph, certainly 

 the most complete monograph on bacterial diseases of plants 

 published anywhere and a work which will rank foremost in 

 bacteriological lines of investigations. You have, indeed, pre- 

 pared," he wrote, " an excellent manual." L. H. Bailey believed 

 that the work would " place the subject of the bacterial diseases 

 of plants on a safe and rational foundation " and showed good 

 judgment in its presentation. 



L. R. Jones described the volume as a " magnificent work." 

 Recently he had published in the Centralblatt ^^ his " Studien liber 

 die cytohydrolytischen Enzyme, die durch die Bakterien, welche 

 weiche Faulnis bewirken, erzeugt werdcn." At the University of 

 Vermont, Warner Jackson Morse, assistant botanist of the experi- 

 ment station and assistant professor of bacteriology, was " just 

 starting a dozen enthusiastic bacteriologists off in lab[oratory] 

 work," and they were monopolizing the laboratory equipped for 

 the study of plant bacterial diseases. 



In the first years of the twentieth century had appeared two 

 epoch-making discoveries in science, both great biological classics 

 of all time. Hugo de Vries, scientific genius of the botanic garden 

 of the University of Amsterdam, Holland, led by a bibliographical 

 reference appended to L. H. Bailey's published lecture, " Cross 

 Breeding and Hybridizing" (1891-1892), had discovered a paper 

 of tremendous potential value to evolutionary understanding. This 



'"Centralb. f. Bakl. II, 10: 746-747, 1903, Abstract, Proc. Soc. Plant Morphology 

 and Physiology. 



