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the most adverse conditions, an appropriation for an investiga- 

 tion of the subject in New Jersey. The final report (1905), 

 which covered a two years' investigation, comprised 482 

 printed pages and treated elaborately every phase of the sub- 

 ject, economic and systematic. From the time of the appear- 

 ance of that report on, he annually secured, by dint of hard 

 work, an appropriation to carry the recommendations made 

 in the report into effect. The success of his work has been 

 heralded far and wide, and the ditching scheme for the drain- 

 ing of marshes was developed by him in the highest degree. 

 To Professor Smith is due the credit for having demonstrated 

 the practicability of ridding immense marsh areas of a most 

 pestiferous insect. 



During all the years of his work on economic entomology 

 which kept him busy answering a voluminous correspondence, 

 attending Farmers' Institute meetings and experimenting with 

 proprietary insecticides which came on the market, he still 

 found time to pursue his work on the systematic side of the 

 subject and continued to publish incessantly revisions of par- 

 ticular Noctuid genera and papers on new species of Noc- 

 tnidae, in which family he was the recognized authority. In 

 1893 he also published as Bulletin 44 of the United States Na- 

 tional Museum his "Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Super- 

 family Noctuidae found in Boreal America," which was an ex- 

 cellent illustration not only of the industry of the man but of 

 his wide knowledge of the family which he chose for his spe- 

 cialty. 



The popular side of entomology also was not neglected as is 

 shown by his two books "Economic Entomology," and "Our 

 Insect Friends and Enemies ;" nor was the general subject, as 

 is shown by his three lists of the insects of New Jersey, each 

 of which was a total revision of the last and really a separate 

 work, his "Explanation of Terms used in Entomology" and 

 his two lists of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America. 



As a lecturer he was widely in demand by Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes, public schools and scientific institutions. 



