A unique tribute to Theobald Smith, 1915

From 1895 to 1915 Theobald Smith served as Professor of Comparative Pathology in the Harvard Medical School in Boston and concurrently as Director of the Massachusetts State Antitoxin and Vaccine Laboratory. On the verge of his departure for a new post at the Rockefeller Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, Smith's colleagues sponsored an elaborate dinner in his honor. Marshall Fabyan, who was the moving spirit behind the affair, also designed an eight-inch by ten-inch souvenir card on which twenty-six sketches depicted Smith's signal researches. This previously unpublished card is reproduced in the present paper, and a digest of the work represented by each sketch is provided. Collectively these summaries are evidence of the remarkable range of Smith's accomplishments, and they serve as a remainder of why Smith is universally regarded as the premier American microbiologist of his day.