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well. Tn Colombia he made a vast collection of plants. In 

 every field a multitude of new and undescribed species re- 

 warded his diligence. The literature of science for the past 

 thirty or more years so far as it contains descriptions of new 

 or little known neotropical species is everywhere replete with 

 the notation "(H. H. Smith coll.)." 



The writer has not been able to command the time to make 

 a search for the total of new species which he turned up and 

 which have so far been described, but ventures with perfect 

 confidence the assertion that such species must already ag- 

 gregate several thousands. 



The work done by Mr. Smith in the field of entomology 

 was particularly great. The entomological collections made 

 by him are mainly contained in the National Museum at Rio 

 de Janeiro, in the British Museum (derived from the gift of 

 the collections of F. D. Godman) and in the Carnegie Museum, 

 though parts of his collections are scattered widely in other 

 museums. There are in the Carnegie Museum in the neigh- 

 borhood of 25,000 species of Brazilian Coleoptera assembled 

 by him and many thousands of species of insects in other or- 

 ders. A memorandum recently received by the writer from 

 Mrs. Smith states that the Arthropoda collected during the 

 years of Mr. Smith's journeys in Brazil up to May, 1886, ag- 

 gregated approximately 40,000 species, distributed as follows : 



Hymenoptera 5,ooo 



Diptera 2.500 



Lepidoptera 2,600 



Coleoptera 23,000 



Hemiptera 3,300 



Orthoptera 600 



Neuroptera 300 



Arachnida 2.000 



Crustacea 250 



Total 39.55O species 



The collections contained an aggregate of at least half a 

 million of individual specimens. Portions of the collections 

 have been carefully studied and reported upon. Ashmead, 

 Cresson, and others have in part worked over the Hymen- 



