274 Early Studies in Bacterial Plant Diseases 



In this address, the brown rot of potato and the black rot of 

 cabbage were also described. This was not a technical discussion 

 addressed to an audience of scientists. In 1893 Smith had pre- 

 pared for the Agriculture of Pennsylvania two reports made to the 

 state horticultural association on " Diseases of fruits and the use 

 of fungicides " and on " Peach yellows." '° 



His bulletins and technical papers addressed to scientists usually 

 preceded discussions of a semi-popular nature. Those contained 

 " critical and detailed descriptions of the organisms respectively 

 concerned " and became " exacting models " '*' for members of 

 the profession of plant pathology, present and future. 



About the same year that Smith began to study specific bacterial 

 diseases in plants, another able scientist had been added to the 

 working force of the Division of Vegetable Pathology. On 

 December 1, 1893, Galloway had recommended that Albert Fred 

 Woods be appointed to the position formerly held by Fairchild. 



Mr. Woods [Galloway wrote] is about twenty-five years old, graduated 

 from the University of Nebraska in 1890, and was immediately appointed 

 professor in the department of plant physiology and pathology, a position 

 which he now holds. From all accounts [he} is thoroughly qualified for 

 the place, being a man of pleasing address, good executive ability, and 

 thoroughly trained in our special field of work. 



He held a graduate degree from his alma mater, and had 

 established there the university's first separate laboratory of plant 

 physiology. In plant pathology he had specialized in a study of 

 mosaic disease of tobacco. At the University of Nebraska, under 

 the leadership of C. E. Bessey a botanical seminar had greatly 

 contributed to the advancement of scientific botany, especially in 

 meritorious work in plant physiology and ecology. H. J. Webber, 

 F. E. Clements, Conway MacMillan, Roscoe Pound, later Jared 

 Gage Smith, and other well known botanists of the period, had 

 been members. Woods brought to the Division of Vegetable 

 Pathology the high calibre of studious accomplishment of this 

 organization and the strong education in scientific agriculture 

 provided by Bessey. 



Thus, with Waite as an authority on pear blight. Smith an 



'''' Rep't. of the State Hort. Assoc, of Penna for 1893: 42-49; 54-58. 

 ^*L. R. Jones, Jour. Bacteriology 15(1): 2, Jan. 1928. 



