Information for the Biographical Sketch and the Scope and Content Note was taken from the following sources:
Campbell, C. Lee, "Erwin Frink Smith -- Pioneer Plant Pathologist" Annual Review of Phytopathology. 21:21-27 (1983).
Jones, L. R., Biographical Memoir of Erwin Frink Smith, 1854-1927 with synopsis of researches by Erwin F. Smith and bibliography by Frederick V. Rand, Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1939.
True, Rodney H., "Erwin F. Smith, 1854-1927" Phytopathology. 17(10):675-688 (October 1927).
Selected References Held in Special Collections:
Jones, L. R., Biographical Memoir of Erwin Frink Smith, 1854-1927 with synopsis of researches by Erwin F. Smith and bibliography by Frederick V. Rand, Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1939. NAL Call No. 120.Sm6
Rodgers, Andrew Denny, Erwin Frink Smith---A Story of North American Plant Pathology, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1952.
NAL Call No. 500.P533M v.31 (stacks also)
Smith, Erwin F., Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases, Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 3 volumes, 1905-1913. NAL Call No. 464.2.Sm6B (stacks also)
Smith, Erwin F., An Introduction to Bacterial Diseases of Plants, Philadelphia: W.B.Saunders & Co., 1920. NAL Call No. 464.2.Sm5 (The Papers of Erwin F. Smith; stacks also)
Wheeler, Charles and Smith, Erwin, Catalogue of the Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Michigan, Indigenous, Naturalized, and Adventitive, Lansing: W.S.George & Co., 1881. NAL Call No. 455.31.W56 (stacks also)