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His first introduction into economic entomology came in 

 1884, when Dr. Riley brought him to Washington, b\it his 

 work in 1886-1890 was again purely systematic. During his 

 six years in Washington he became a well known figure among 

 the naturalists of the city, and was at one time secretary of 

 this Society, and later, secretary of the Biological Society of 

 Washington. 



When the agricultural experiment stations were founded, he 

 was one of the first State workers appointed, and from the 

 very start his energy and capacity made him one of the fore- 

 most workers in this line of research. He was interested in 

 and active in every new development of economic entomology 

 and was a prominent figure at every meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists, holding the office of secretary 

 at the first and second annual meetings of the association, in 

 1889 and 1890; second vice-president in 1893; first vice-presi- 

 dent in 1894; and president in 1895. 



He carried on his dual work as a systematic entomologist 

 and as an intensely practical economic entomologist down to 

 within a short time of his death. He was not only held in 

 great respect among the entomologists of this country and of 

 Europe, but he had the highest standing among the citizens of 

 the State of New Jersey, of which he was an official. Further, 

 he had the respect and confidence of the citizens of New Bruns- 

 wick, in which city he lived, and of the faculty and student 

 body of Rutgers College, with which he was connected and 

 which had given him, in the early nineties, the honorary degree 

 of doctor of science. 



While practically all of Doctor Smith's work was sound and 

 deserving of every respect, it seems to me that the triumph of 

 his life was in the results obtained by his anti-mosquito work. 

 I can do no better than to quote from my address before the 

 Seventh International Zoological Congress as follows : 



The mosquito destruction measures carried on by English workers, and 

 especially by those Connected with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- 

 gine, in different parts of the tropics controlled by England, have been large- 

 ly scale work of great value. That done by the army of occupation in 

 Cuba was of enormous value, so far as the city of Havana was concerned, 

 and an assistant just returned from the Isthmian C'anal Zone assures me 

 that it is possible to sit now out-of-doors of an evening upon an unprotected 

 veranda anywhere in the Zone without being annoyed by mosquitoes, and 

 without danger of contracting malaria or yellow fever. 



These are all great pieces of work, but when we consider the condition 

 that exists in the State of New Jersey, and the indefatigable and successful 

 work of Doctor Smtih in the handling of the most difficult problem of the 



