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diseases," even plant diseases, too, " for 1 saw," wrote Smith,"" 

 " plants inoculated with crown gall." They were introduced to 

 " numerous assistants " and to Dr. Masson, professor of pathologi- 

 cal anatomy, whose book on cancer Smith had been reading, in 

 Strasbourg were located the botanical laboratories founded by 

 Anton de Bary, which, when Smith visited them, seemed to him 

 " like sacred ground, so much I was inllucnced by his writings 

 many years ago! " "^ 



Their first visit to the laboratories of the Institute for Bacteri- 

 ology and Hygiene had been in the late afternoon. Arrangements 

 were made thatJDr. Smith should show Dr. Borrel his crown gall 

 photographs the next morning, and in the late afternoon show 

 them to Dr. Masson. Smith culled valuable information the first 

 day, however: he wrote ^- that Dr. Borrel 



has found the cornea of rabbits an excellent place for propauation of 

 vaccine virus and here he has demonstrated by staining methods the pre- 

 sence of great numbers of cocci, sharply stained (he showed them to me 

 under the microscope), and closely resembling similar bodies he has found 

 in Molluscum contagiosum, but from neither disease can they be cultivated. 

 There also I saw numerous very large tubes of bacterial and fungous cul- 

 tures prepared for museum exhibit. Dr. Borrel has a superb collection of 

 cancer slides which I should like to study if only there were time. In the 

 Pasteur museum are also many exhibits it would be profitable to study. 



Of his appointment with Dr. Borrel the next day, he said: '•'•* 



He w^as lecturing when I got to the Laboratory. . . . He came in to see 

 me in about fifteen minutes and took me to another room where we placed 

 all the sheets of photographs on a large table. He then asked if his class 

 might also see them. I said, yes, and the result was I had to explain each 

 one to a class of 70 medical students. They listened very intently, and 

 when I finished in thirty or forty minutes, they gave me round after round 

 of applause. I don't know what Dr. Borrel said to them about me in the 

 amphitheatre, but certainly all that clapping and shouting could hardly 

 have been in honor of my bad French. Afterward Dr. B. took me to 

 another part of the big building and gave me the Pasteur centenary medal, 

 silvered, in a silk-lined leather case. 



His appointment with Dr. Masson also became more or less of 

 a formal occasion. " I expected," Smith said,'-" " only two or three 



'"Journal, Feb. 16, 1925. 



" Leter to W. A. Taylor, Mar. 5, 1925; Journal, Feb. 20, 1925. 



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