Last Work. Fin'.m Honors 589 



1923, at the more elaborate Pasteur (xntenary of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine, on " Pasteur's study of silkworm diseases." 

 On these programs were other celebrities: at Rutgers, Drs. R. 

 G. Wright, j. G. I.ipman, and J. F. Anderson, at the New 

 York Academy, Drs. R. H. Chittenden, Hermann Riggs, Theobald 

 Smith, Simon Flcxncr, W. H. Welch, and W. W. Keen. He could 

 have spoken at other centenary celebrations, but refused because 

 he had so often given addresses on the man who he thought had 

 " moved the world." '^ He would have accepted the invitation 

 from the American Museum of Natural History to speak on 

 Pasteur's contribution to agriculture, but, being away from Wash- 

 ington at the time, he did not receive the invitation soon enough. 

 Smith was a collector of Pasteuriana, and he lent some of his 

 photographs and a bronze figure fifteen inches high of the great 

 Frenchman to the New York Academy of Medicine occasion. 

 His new studies added to his high rating as an authority on the 

 life and work of Pasteur. Especially appreciated was his trans- 

 lation of a paper by Emile Roux on " The Medical Work of 

 Pasteur." " His and Miss Hedges' translation of Duclaux's Pas- 

 teur. The History of a Mind had been received as a " history of 

 two minds " because of the senior translator's excellent appraisal 

 of the life and work of Duclaux. As a scientist, Smith had been 

 recognized many times by workers and officials of the Pasteur 

 Institute. Brazilian O. da Fonseca, who had studied in Smith's 

 laboratory, found when he went to Paris to study that Smith's 

 crown gall specimens, left at the Institute in 1913, were still 

 there, and mycologist Magrou had much to say about his work 

 and books. That year another former student from Smith's labora- 

 tory, K. Nakata, wrote from the Rothamsted Experiment Station 

 of England and expressed similar appreciation of the recognition 

 he found being accorded an American's work. Etienne Burnet of 

 the Institut Pasteur in Tunis, Director Roux, Dr. A. Berthelot, chief 

 of the laboratories, Dr. Calmctte, and Dr. Magrou of the Pasteur 

 Institute of Paris each congratulated and commended Smith for 

 various of his writings about " the maker of new pathways in half 

 a dozen fields of science." "^ 



In 1923, moreover, Dr. Smith represented the Bureau of Plant 



=' E. F. Smith, Louis Pasteur, Nuture 8(6): 346-347, Dec. 1926. 

 ""■ Scientific Monthy 21(4): 364-389, Oct. 1925. 

 *' E. F. Smith, Louis Pasteur, op. cit., 346. 



