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indorse thoroughly what Professor Webster said as to his ex- 

 tremely good nature, and I used to think a great deal of him, 

 and the more I knew of him personally, the higher opinion I 

 had of him as a man. I think I had correspondence with him 

 first, perhaps, in 1893, in connection with the determination of 

 some common noctuid moths from Florida. They were all 

 very common and I should have known what they were, but 

 I had just began the study of insects at that time and he let 

 me down very easy. They represented the bollworm moth 

 (Heliothis) and perhaps the cabbage worm and similar in- 

 sects like that. I am sorry that I have not his letter to read 

 to show you how nicely he treated me in regard to the matter, 

 being a beginner in the subject. On another occasion, Doctor 

 Hopkins' remarks about drawings remind me of an experience 

 I had in that particular. I had made certain observations on 

 a little weevil which infests seed corn, and not knowing how 

 to make drawings, I made them very large. Dr. Smith at 

 that time was editor of the section of entomology in Entomo- 

 logical News devoted to economic entomology. I sent them on 

 to him with the manuscript and he complimented me on the 

 paper. He said "Why did you make your drawings so large? 

 They are enormous." He offered to redraw them and-reduce 

 them, which he did. 



Mr. Currie made the following remarks : 



I never was associated with Doctor Smith to any extent, 

 but at the times when he visited Washington and the National 

 Museum in former years I always enjoyed meeting him greatly 

 and I admired him for his cordial personality and abounding 

 enthusiasm. I always admired the records of the work that he 

 left in the Division of Insects in the National Museum. In 

 the old record book, in which the first accessions to the Divi- 

 sion of Insects in the National Museum were made, we have 

 the entries made in Doctor Smith's own handwriting. The 

 amount of work that he evidently did was quite remarkable. 

 While he was Assistant Curator of the Division of Insects he 

 accomplished much work in arranging various groups and did 

 considerable work on the exhibition series in various groups. 

 I suppose that at that time he was about the only one employed 

 at the National Museum to care for the insect collections. 

 He was succeeded later by Mr. Martin L. Linell. Those were 

 the days when one man had to take charge of a great variety 

 of groups and the arrangement of them, and had many duties. 

 Of course, his most notable systematic work was perhaps tint 

 in connection with the collection of Noctuidae, and even after 



