402 First European Journey 



Smith arranged that gifts of his first volume of Bacteria in 

 Relation to Plant Diseases be sent them who had not received the 

 work. Cavara had " no sufficient words " to thank him. He called 

 it '" the most accurate monography on the bacteria which interest 

 the agricultTire. . . . No one better than you could develope such 

 an object of t[h]eorie and practical bacteriologie. ... I hope," 

 he added, " that you will continuate the great works that you 

 have undertaken so to give us also the special division with the 

 description of all species till now described of bacteria injurios to 

 our cultivated plants." He supplied Smith with a bibliography 

 of his writings and invited him to visit them again at the R. Orto 

 Botanico of the University of Naples. 



Smith was cordially received everywhere. Not less his volume 

 on bacterial diseases of plants than his eminence as a plant path- 

 ologist obviated the necessity of letters of introduction. Before 

 he had left America, Savastano and Peglion had written letters 

 of appreciation for his valuable work. Professor Dr. M. W. 

 Beyerinck, whom Smith esteemed as " the most distinguished 

 bacteriologist in Holland," had, as director of his laboratory at 

 Delft, thanked him for his " most admirable book on bacterial 

 Plant-Sickness " and sent a paper of his work on gummosis. 

 Dr. Carl Wehmer of the Technische Hochschule of Hannover, 

 Germany, had sent a card of acknowledgment; W. Busse of 

 the Phytopathological Institute of Berlin, a letter; Dr. Alfred 

 Moller of Eberswalde, a letter; also, Dr. Rudolph Aderhold, 

 director of plant pathology in the Imperial German Board of 

 Health, the highest position of its kind in Germany, so Smith 

 believed. Furthermore, Smith exchanged letters with S. Wino- 

 gradsky of St. Petersburg, Russia. 



Dr. Galloway had directed Smith, while in Europe, to visit 

 places in Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and 

 other parts of western Europe to make " further investigations of 

 the diseases of bulbs, potatoes, vines, rice, olives, and other fruit 

 and crop plants which are introduced into the United States," 

 and also to inspect the equipment in the laboratories of the 

 countries visited. 



Duggar in 1901 had conveyed to Delacroix and Prillieux of 

 France Smith's requests for materials of a bean and a grain dis- 

 ease. From Paris on December 1, Duggar had informed: " Dela- 



