Studies on Crown CIaii (^i- Plants 423 



France, Germany, Austria, Holland, England, Russia, and the 

 Scandinavian countries. Beneath the names of each he listed the 

 plant diseases on which he knew or was informed each had 

 material, or had worked, and was an outstanding authority. 



On the day before their scheduled sailing from Genoa, objec- 

 tions were raised to Mrs. Smith as a passenger because of her 

 illness. Dr. Smith and her doctor telegraphed the American 

 Ambassador at Rome who, in turn, communicated with the 

 American Consul-Gcneral, and officials of the North German 

 Lloyd Company were assured that she was suffering from a non- 

 contagious ailment, dironic rheumatism. On September 20 they 

 sailed on the steamship. Princess Irene, and voyaged by way of 

 Naples and Gibraltar to New York. 



That year Smith could not attend the meeting of the Society 

 for Plant Morphology and Physiology. He had been present at 

 every meeting of this society, served once as its president, and 

 nearly if not always presented one or more papers. 



Nor could he enjoy his second presidential distinction and 

 preside at the meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists. 

 Its eighth annual meeting was held during convocation week at 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research. Formal ceremonies opening the laboratory 

 of the institute ^^ had been held on May 11, 1906, while he was 

 in Europe, and Dr. Welch had been a principal speaker of the 

 occasion. 



The first session of the annual meeting of the Society of 

 American Bacteriologists was held at the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons. There the papers more strictly treated topics of 

 morphology, physiology, and other aspects of the science. But at 

 the second session held w^ith Section K of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science the papers were of interest 

 to bacteriologist, pathologist, and chemist, and were largely given 

 over to researches in sera, toxins, and the biology of pathogenic 

 bacteria and other organisms. This joint session met at the 

 Rockefeller Institute, and on Saturday morning the Society again 

 gathered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons to consider 



^^ Science, n. s., 24(601): 1-18, July 6, 1906. See also, S. and J. T. Flexner, 

 William Henry Welch etc., op. cit., chap. XIII: 269-296, at 284-285 (account of 

 the founding of this and other American medical research laboratories). 



