Scientist; 



Recognii 

 branch of 

 devoted ne 



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6 to which He has ' 



scientific: organiza- 

 tion/; and a contributor to many 

 s. leutinc. periodicals, Mr. Smith's pas- 

 si ■hi for scientific research was mani- I 

 1 1 in his boyhood days. 

 Horn at Gilbert's Mills. N. v.. Mr. 

 Smith first showed his great interest 

 in plains while minding cows In 

 pasture, He marked plants during 

 the daj and at night went back and 

 got I bcin to study. Later he worked 

 his way through high school and i 

 lege." In oi'dcr that his employm 

 Vinihl not interfere With studying, 

 accepted u position as night wat 

 man and guard at the Michigan State 

 Prison. 



Xot discouraged over not graduat- 

 ing from high school until he v 

 about :'ti years old, he entered the 

 riihersiiv of Alicli'uun and was award- 

 ed a B. S, degree in biology in 18S6, 

 and Sc. I) degree at the same institu- 

 tion three years later, and a Sc. D. 

 degree from the University of Wiscon- 

 sin in KM 4. He also received an 

 LL. 1). degree from the University of 

 Michigan in 1922, 



Studied I'lant Disease. 



Mi. SraUb was employed as an ex- 

 pf i i pathologist in the Department of 

 Agriculture in ISSft, from which he 

 rose lo the position he held at the 

 time of his death. 



While in the laboratory of plant pa- 

 thology, be published numerous arti- 

 cles and research papers on diseases 

 of bulbs, other florists' plants and nu- 

 merous vegetables. Outstanding 

 s.uong these was a three-volume 

 'i i monograph on bacterial dis- 

 eases of plants for the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington. 



Besides nis vast work in connection 

 wnb scieiu inc research, he also trans- 

 ited all the sonnets of Heredia into 

 rhymed English verse. He read ar- 

 «»•'••* hi si* or more different lan- 

 g'!;.-cs and was the joint author with 

 Ali^s Florence Hedges of the trans- 

 lation, "i'nsteur: The History of a 

 Mind." 



