Recognition of Pi.ani IUcteriology in Europe 393 



excellent piece of work and that it will result in much credit to 

 you and the qooel of the cause." 



Since 190-1 Dr. William Osier had hccu Regius Professor of 

 Medicine at Oxford Unversity, Tngland. He, who with Welch, 

 Halsted, and Kelly had formed the great four of Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, sent a letter on November 21, 1905: "Dear 

 Smith: — Congratulations on your superb volume which arrived 

 last week. It will be an enduring monument to your fame. How 

 splendidly, too, the Carnegie Trust has published it. I hope you 

 are not workinsz too hard." 



That year on December 28 Dr. Smith presented before the 

 ninth meeting of the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology 

 a paper on " Channels of entrance and Types of movement in 

 Bacterial Diseases of Plants." ^"- Most of his papers on plant 

 bacteriology before this society had dealt with specific diseases as, 

 for example, his papers at the sixth meeting on Bacterium pruni 

 and on Ps. Stewarti, at the seventh meeting on the olive tubercle 

 and on bacterial leaf spots, and at the eighth meeting on Burrill's 

 bacterial disease of broom corn. At the fifth meeting he was 

 scheduled for a twenty-five minute paper on "' The Destruction of 

 Cell walls by Bacteria." '"" 



His paper, " Effect of Freezing on Bacteria," before the sixth 

 annual meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists, had 

 considered a general subject, and before the seventh meeting of 

 this societ}' he offered no paper at all. This meeting took place 

 at Ann Arbor on December 28 and 29, 1905, and coincided with 

 the ninth meeeting of the Society for Plant Morphology and Phy- 

 siolog)\ At this time these organizations were still affiliated with 

 the American Society of Naturalists, and Smith, evidently because 

 of his paper on " Channels of entrance and Types of movement 

 in Bacterial Diseases of Plants," had to attend the meetings at 

 the University of Michigan rather than go to New Orleans during 

 convocation week to preside as chairman over Section G of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. In his 

 stead, S. M. Tracy and B. L. Robinson served as chairmen of the 

 meeting of the botanical section at New Orleans. Smith attended 

 the meeting at Ann Arbor of the Society of American Bacteri- 



^"^ Science, n. s., 23(585) : 424-425, March 16, 1906. 

 ^"''Science, n. s., 15: 405, 1902. 



