448 First European Journey 



Puerto Rico as dean of the college of agriculture and mechanic arts 

 there, and in February 1914 he would become professor of plant 

 pathology at the University of Illinois. By this time, T. J. Burrill 

 had retired from active duties with highest honors from his uni- 

 versity and the scientific world generally. 



Jones's letter to Smith was written as professor and head of 

 his new department of plant pathology at the University of 

 Wisconsin. He was equipping and moving into a new laboratory, 

 and another " small laboratory [was] in process of construction, 

 opening into [his] new greenhouse quarters." This department 

 was a part of the college of agriculture, and C. R. Orton and 

 F. J. Pritchard were his assistants. 



At the Minneapolis meeting the American Phytopathological 

 Society voted to establish its official journal. Phytopathology, and 

 Jones, Shear, and Whetzel became its first editors. Associate 

 editors were G. P. Clinton, E. M. Freeman, H. T. Giissow of the 

 Dominion Experimental Farms, Ottawa, Canada, F. D. Heald, H. 

 Metcalf, W. A. Orton, W. M. Scott, A. D. Selby, E. F. Smith, 

 Ralph E. Smith, and Roland Thaxter. Donald Reddick was 

 business manager. 



Plant pathologists had been appointed at more state agricultural 

 experiment stations. Their science was a part of the course of 

 instruction and research in botany at several universities. For 

 years their science had been acquiring independent status and 

 now, with their own society and journal, an established profession 

 was more than ever evident. In America, during Erwin Smith's 

 lifetime, workers in the science had increased from a very few to 

 numbers in the hundreds. Already mention has been made of 

 three university departments which were among, if not, the first 

 established exclusively (or primarily) for instruction in plant 

 pathology: at Cornell under Whetzel, at the University of Wis- 

 consin under Jones, and at the University of Minnesota under 

 Freeman. The title of the Minnesota division of plant pathology 

 included also botany but the division was created on August 1, 

 1907, with work in plant pathology as the object in view and, 

 being in the agricultural college, was distinct from the botanical 

 department of the college of science, literature, and the arts. 

 Freeman, a former pathologist in the office of cereals investigation 

 at the United States Department of Agriculture, a University of 



