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Recognitions from scientists of the British Isks had not been 

 few. On February 28, 1921, Director A. R. Boycott of the depart- 

 ment of patholoi^y of the medical school of the Univcrsit)' of 

 London, while visiting leading schools in the United States, had 

 called on Smith at his laboratory and been given photomicro- 

 graphs of the tobacco cortex crown gall tumor. He was later 

 sent slides and, thanking Smith, "" frankly confcss[ed] that a sight 

 of the actual specimens altogether changed my ideas on the 

 subject." Bricrley of the Institute of Plant Pathology of the 

 Rothamsted Pxpcriment Station at Harpenden wrote: '" The hard 

 convincing evidence of your wonderful series of crown gall speci- 

 mens made a great impression upon [Boycott] and he said to me 

 what I have often said to others that he " had never seen so 

 magnificent a demonstration in his life.' " The next year, on 

 September 2, Bricrley, as editor for botany of the Aunals of 

 Applied Biology, asked Smith to prepare the first of a series of 

 articles by leading scientists in the fields of economic botany — 

 Johannsen, Nilsson Ehlc, Berlese, Chevalier, among them — sum- 

 maries of investigations with special biological applications, such 

 as Smith's work on crown gall. Smith agreed to submit a 5,000 

 word article. But evidently it proved to be more than was wanted 

 and, when the second request arrived, he was unable to promise a 

 revision in the near future. 



Late in 1922, Dr. George Adami, now vice chancellor of the 

 University of Liverpool, had written: 



Ever since I have been in England I have been crying up your work on 

 crown gall, and people here are beginning to realize its huge importance. 

 I confess it has been a rather interesting demonstration to me of the diffi- 

 culty there is in one country in getting sound work in another country 

 acknowledged unless a man comes over to the other country and actually 

 demonstrates his methods to the assembled men of science. 



On April 21, 1923, Sir Harold J. Stiles of Edinburgh, accompanied 

 by Drs. Finney and Miller of Baltimore, made a laboratory call on 

 Smith, and soon Dr. Harvey Gushing wrote to say that the noted 

 Scotsman had written him " most enthusiastically in regard to the 

 visit." In January of that year Sir Clifford AUbutt, Regius Pro- 

 fessor of Physic at Cambridge, had thanked Smith for his "' three 



Jaczewski of the Institut Jaczcwski dc Mycologie et Pathologic veg(§tale wrote 

 Smith and told him of his new honor. They collaborated in studying the black chaft 

 disease of wheat. Science 63(1629): 305-307, 1926. 



