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SECOND EUROPEAN JOURNEY. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF 



MEDICINE. FURTHER RESEARCH ON PLANT DISEASES, ESPECIALLY 



THE PLANT TUMOR AND VARIOUS COORDINATE PROBLEMS. 



WHEREAS Smith's first journey to Europe in 1906 had been 

 to study and gather materials to complete his second 

 volume of Bacteria J)i Relation to Plant Diseases, his second 

 journey in 1913 was planned with the same purposes in mind 

 for the third volume of this epoch making work. Another reason 

 was to deliver at London his address, " Cancer in Plants," before 

 the seventeenth International Congress of Medicine to be held 

 in August 1913. This was regarded by him as an " English equi- 

 valent " of his address of the year previous at the first International 

 Congress of Comparative Pathology held at Paris. He had not 

 been present at the Paris Congress, and so far as is known no 

 exhibits were sent over with his paper. Since that occasion, how- 

 ever, he had prepared an elaborate exhibit of his crown gall 

 materials for the Minneapolis meeting of the American Medical 

 Association and substantially the same together with some new 

 demonstration exhibits were taken with him to London. Sunday, 

 August 17, from the Charing Cross Hotel, he wrote to his 

 Laboratory co-workers: 



My dear friends. It is eight days and sixteen hours from New York 

 to London via Dover on S. S. "" Lapland." . . . The sea was calm as an 

 old pond all the way. There was singing and dancing and card playing 

 and the usual ship amusements and toward the end of the trip I became 

 acquainted with many of the passengers. This had its inconveniences for 

 I then had to hide away to get any reading or writing done. Some of the 

 persons I met proved very pleasant, e. g. Dr. and Mrs. [Lewellys Franklin} 

 Barker, Dr. [Harvey] Gushing, Dr. and Mrs. Adolph Meyer, Dr. and 

 Mrs. [John Alden] Lichty, and the charming young girl Dorothy, their 

 daughter, Dr. Dana, Dr. Bosworth, Dr. Cunningham, Dr. [George Linius] 

 Streeter, Dr. and Mrs. Foster. Later I met Dr. and Mrs. Murphy. All 

 from Baltimore, New York, or Boston except the Lichtys who are from 

 Pittsburg and the Murphys from Chicago (.^) Dr. M[urphy] is the big 

 surgeon who said, " We are all proud of you." There were twcntyone 

 doctors on the ship, most of whom I met and all of whom asked to see 

 my exliibit. 



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