658 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 



amount of valuable work in connection with tuberculosis throughout 

 the civilized world, but the relative importance of infection from one 

 another through sputum and from bovines through dairy produce 

 is still an open question, and will not be settled for many years to 

 come. 



Before closing this sketch of his life work, it remains to add a few 

 words upon Koch as a teacher. In 1885 he removed from the health 

 department and became a professor in the faculty of medicine and 

 director of the new hygiene institute, attached to the University of 

 Berlin. Here, with the help of his assistants, numbers of those who 

 later became leading bacteriologists in all countries were trained in his 

 methods and endowed with some portion of his enthusiasm and earn- 

 estness. The admiration with which he was regarded by his pupils, 

 and the absolute faith which he inspired, amounted in many cases to 

 actual worship, and afford further evidence of the essential greatness 

 of the man. 



Amongst the numerous honors conferred upon him by scientific and 

 academic bodies throughout the civilized world was the foreign mem- 

 bership of the Royal Society, to which he was elected in 1897. 



There have no doubt been many discoverers as great as Koch, but 

 it must be seldom that one has been so individually associated with 

 the development of a science. Bacteriology has to so great an extent 

 grown up around Koch that the title "Father of Bacteriology" has 

 been conferred upon him by his admiring compatriots. 



