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Left an orphan at the a£;c of fourteen years, she had lived with 

 members of her family and with her brother. Her education had 

 been received in ihe Springfield schools and at Smith College, 

 and her degree of master of arts hud been obtained in Latin and 

 Greek at Columbia University. She was a linguist of unusual 

 ability, conversant with several modern as well as the classical 

 languages, a student of literature and art, and had taught these 

 subjects in several of the best private schools of the east. She 

 and Dr. Smith read together of evenings the best books, and over 

 more than a dozen y^rs were very happy, their mutual interests in 

 languages, literature, and art providing them with an abundant 

 basis for. calm, quiet satisfaction and joy. His diaries again and 

 ajiain reveal this.. 



The year 1914 brought new honors to Dr. Smith. On May 13 

 he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences. On April 24 he was invited by Director F. R. Lillie 

 of the Marine Biological Laboratory to participate the following 

 July 7 in a series of evening lectures on general biological science. 

 On April 17 President Charles R. Van Hise of the University of 

 Wisconsin wrote him that, on recommendation of their faculty, 

 the regents w^ould confer on him at their next Commencement 

 the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. Because of a necessary 

 journey to the Pacific Coast, Dr. L. R. Jones could not be present 

 at this ceremony but he wrote: "It is not necessary to add the 

 very great pleasure it gives me that the University of Wisconsin 

 could thus honor itself while honoring you by aw^arding you 

 this degree." 



On August 4 Smith announced to Thaxter: " The third volume 

 of Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases, w^hich has been grinding 

 through the press for 18 months, will be published this week." 

 V. H. Blackman, professor of physiology and pathology of the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology at South Kensington, 

 England, was among the many who sent letters of appreciation. 

 " May I congratulate you," he wrote, " on the publication of the 

 third volume of your great work on bacteriology. The appearance 

 of these fine volumes is eagerly welcomed by many botanists in 

 this country." Jacob Eriksson of Stockholm ordered a copy of the 

 " imposing w^ork." Savastano of Italy sent for this and any other 

 volume of the set which he did not possess. Ernst A. Bessey of 



