112 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Jersey has lost an earnest, indefatigable, far-sighted, and most 

 competent official; 



Resolved further, That the Entomological Society of 

 Washington extends to the widow and the family of its late 

 member its warmest sympathy, and at the same time its ap- 

 preciation of the fact that the distinguished career of the late 

 husband and father must always be a source of satisfaction to 

 those left behind. 



L. O. HOWARD,. 

 F. M. WEBSTER, 

 A. D. HOPKINS, 

 Committee on Resolutions. 



Doctor Howard made the following remarks : 



Another of the founders of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington, Dr. John Bernhard Smith, has died, passing 

 away yesterday morning at 3 o'clock after a Long illness. His 

 end was probably due to chronic heart trouble complicated by 

 Bright's disease. 



Our former colleague was born November 21, 1858, in New 

 York City, and was educated in the schools of New York and 

 Brooklyn. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and practiced 

 law In Brooklyn between 1880 and 1884. He became special 

 agent of the then Division of Entomology, Department of 

 Agriculture, in 1884, and for two years he did field work, 

 especially upon insects affecting the hop and cranberry. In 

 1886, he was made aid in the Division of Insects, U. S. Nation- 

 al Museum, holding this position for four years. In 1890, he 

 was made entomologist of the agricultural experiment station 

 of the State of New Jersey, and was made State Entomologist 

 of New Jersey some years later. 



I have never learned, and I don't think he ever told me, just 

 when he began to collect insects and to become interested in 

 entomology. I imagine that Charles Fuchs and Frank Schaupp 

 had something to do with it. At all events, they were all 

 together in the early days of the Brooklyn Entomological 

 Society. Doctor Smith became the second editor of the bulle- 

 tin of that society, which he afterwards developed into Ento- 

 mologica Americana, and of this later w r ell-known journal 

 Dr. Smith was editor from 1886 to 1890, when he was suc- 

 ceeded by Dr. F. H. Chittenden. His interests from the start 

 were in the Lepidoptera, and this interest continued the rest 

 of his life, and he became, as every one knows, one of the 

 best known workers on the great complex known as the Family 

 Noctuidse. 



