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Whether a vaccine had been or would be discovered awaited more 

 definite completion of the studies."' But at this time Smith com- 

 mented, ■" What a wonderful discovery it would be! " 



On April 22 he and Mrs. Smith sailed on the U. S. Line ship, 

 " President Harding;,'" and arrived in New York eight days later. 



On ALiy 3 and -1, the eighteenth annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for Cancer Research convened at Washington. At 

 its council meeting Dr. ('banning C. Simmons, vice president 

 during Dr. Smith's regime, was elected the organization's new 

 president. Dr. Burton T. Simpson, director of the New York 

 State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease, was elected 

 vice president, and Dr. Woglom was continued in the office of 

 secretary treasurer. At the Navy Medical School, morning and 

 afternoon sessions were held, and in the presence of about forty 

 members Dr. Smith presented his address, " Some Newer Aspects 

 of Cancer Research." He wrote of the meeting: '^^ " I exhibited 

 Blumenthal's rats and slides. Drs. Ewdng, Wood and Woglom 

 examined them microscopically. ... At the meeting Dr. Cori of 

 [the New York State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease] 

 read a paper '" stating that he had verified Otto Warburg's excess 

 of acid in cancer cells, using man and living animals; and Dr. 

 Warthin continued his study of a cancerous family." Smith tabu- 

 lated some of Dr. Warthin's conclusions. He knew that his address 

 had been wtU received. Members asked for cultures and slides to 

 study the Blumenthal w^ork further. 



Dr. and Mrs. Simpson and Dr. and Mrs. Shrader of the Gratwick 

 Laboratory called on Smith and saw his laboratory and the rat- 

 tumor slides. Soon Miss Fox of his laboratory was cutting one 

 rat specimen brought from Berlin, the " one of the big axillary 

 metastases in PM VIII cell transplant." "^ By August he had 

 received a " letter from Dr. Blumenthal " "*^ which told that 

 " another rat tumor now in 4th transplant, structurally like L, 

 [had been obtained] with a bacillus cultivated from a cancer of 

 the uterus plus kieselgur," and by early the next year,"" after 



**" Some newer asp. of cane, res., op. cit., 599. 

 "'Diary, May 4, 1925. 



*** Drs. Carl F. and Gcrty Cori, The carbohydrate metabolism of malignant tumors, 

 Jour. Cancer Research 9: 510 f., 1925. 

 "'Diary, May 14, 1925. 

 "'Diary, Aug. 7, 1925. 

 "^Mar. 10, 1926. Letter, Feb. 9, 1926. 



