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1924 FrcJ Rcucl Jt)iics of Wisconsin had discovcrcxl and estab- 

 lished the etioloi;y of a serious vascular disease of alfalfa, and in 



1925 Miss McCulloch had described the cultural characters of its 

 cause, ApLinobacter insiciiosnni.^'" That year ^"^ Miss Bryan had 

 obtained " interesting root infections on tomatoes with Ap/iino- 

 bacter mich'tganense and also demonstrations that the disease is 

 carried on the seeds, as [Smith had] long suspected." In 1924 

 Dr. Smith and Miss Elliott had presented at the meeting of the 

 American Phytopathological Society a paper on "A bacterial 

 disease of broomcorn and sorghum." '^^ These were but a few 

 examples; and on March 5, 1927, he summarized the laboratory 

 work which w^as going on satisfactorily: " Miss Fawcett," he 

 wrote,^*- 



lijs interesting studies of distilled water well along. Agnes Qairk and 

 Miss Brown are working on crowngall oxidation phenomena. Miss Brown 

 has a note with two plates on sweet pea fasciation due to Bad. tumejaciens 

 in Phytopathology. Miss ElHott has written a paper on stripe disease of 

 oats. Miss Hedges is working diseases of beans. Miss Bryan on several 

 things — one of which is Aplanobacter on tomato. Lucia McCulloch is 

 working on bulk diseases. Miss Cash on miscellaneous things. Miss Fox 

 the same. I am trying to complete the illustrations for my Ithaca paper, 

 [Fifty Years of Pathology]. [J. F.] Brewer is helping. 



For many years Brewer, botanical artist of the Department, 

 had helped Dr. Smith valuably in preparing illustrations for 

 publications from his laboratory, i. e., by drawings and prints for 

 half-tone plates and other special features. 



In January, Dr. Rand had begun work to " complete a bulletin 

 on bacterial wilt of sweet corn." ^^'^ During the first week in March 

 a " tumor-like disease on nodes of suger cane [had been] received," 

 and on March 8 Dr. Smith began to examine these for protozoans 

 or cell inclusions in the tumors. Some root tumors of lilac from 

 France were also studied, and he believed these crown gall.*"*' 

 That night he suffered the first of several recurrent heart attacks 

 and was never again the strong, virile man he had been. But 



'" Idem, 37. 



^*'' Diary, May 9, 1925. 



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Phytopathology 14(1): 48, Jan. 1924; A bacterial stripe disease of sor£;lium. 

 Jour. Agric. Res. 38(1): 1-22, Jan. 1, 1929 (extension of paper of 1924 meeting, 

 Amer. Phytop. Soc). 



^" Diary, Mar. 5, 1927. 



"' Diary, Jan. 3, 1927. 



"' Diary, Mar. 7, 8, 1927. 



