462 First European Journey 



Jones went to the University of Wisconsin and Smith's ambition 

 was not to teach but remain with the Department of Agriculture. 

 E. M. East was appointed assistant professor of experimental 

 plant morphology and began his noted work there in genetics. . 

 But that Dean Sabine was interested in Smith's work seems 

 undoubted. On July 11, 1912, after he had read the latter's 

 bulletin 255 on " The structure and development of crown gall," 

 he wrote: " Your comparison of the Crown Gall to Sarcoma and 

 animal tumors has interested me for several years past. I am very 

 glad indeed to have this exact statement of the parallelism." 

 Furthermore, Dr. Milton Joseph Rosenau of the department of 

 preventive medicine and hygiene of the medical school congratu- 

 lated Smith and his co-workers on July 31 on " this splendid piece 

 of work." 



By 1912 Jones's department at the University of Wisconsin 

 consisted of five persons: himself, I. E. Melhus, Freda M. Bach- 

 man, A. G. Johnson, and R. E. Vaughan. On July 11 he wrote 

 Smith: 



Again I must congratulate you upon your Bulletin 255. I need add 

 nothing to what I have said before in order to assure you that I am con- 

 vinced that you are, in these contributions on crown gall, not only giving 

 a stimulus which must be powerful in its influence upon human cancer 

 research, but pointing to the highest plane yet attained in Plant Pathology. 

 I wish you continued success along these lines for the sake of our science 

 as well as for your own satisfaction. 



American botanists were uniform in their high praise of Smith's 

 work. Professor Whetzel — his department at the New York State 

 College of Agriculture now composed of two professors, one 

 assistant professor, four instructors, one investigator, five assistants, 

 and seven fellows — called bulletin 255 " certainly a crowning con- 

 tribution to [Smith's] many wonderful studies of this disease. 

 While I fear," he wrote to Smith on July 15, 1912, 



that the edition is so limited that I can hardly hope that you can help me 

 out in my request, still I shall appreciate it very much if in any way you 

 can make it possible for me to get ten or twelve copies of this for our 

 classes in Plant Pathology. I am planning to give a course in Pathological 

 Histology next winter and this would be one of the best things I could 

 put in the hands of my students as a model of accurate work along this line. 



Walter G. Sackett, bacteriologist of the Laboratory of Bacteri- 



