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became an iiuportaiit vehicle for the publication of smaller papers 

 and notes. In 1884, he Avas made special agent of the Division of 

 Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and for two years 

 did field work, especially upon insects affecting the hop and cran- 

 berry. This was his first introduction to economic entomology. In 

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

 Museum, and held this position until he was appointed to his final 

 position in New Jersey. During the four years he was connected 

 with the National Museum, it is true that his work was all of a sys- 

 tematic character and that he did no actual work in economic ento- 

 mology, but he was a member of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington and was constantly associated with the men of the Divi- 

 sion of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and followed 

 their work intimately and discussed it with them; so that he really 

 lived in an atmosphere of practical work. 



With the founding of the Association of Economic Entomologists, 

 an organization which has made a great impress on practical ento- 

 mology, not only in this country but in other parts of the world, 

 Dr. Smith was made the secretary of the association and held this 

 office for two years. He was made second vice-president in 1893, 

 first vice-president in 1894, and president in 1895. His address as 

 retiring president was entitled, " Entomological Notes and Prob- 

 lems," and was delivered August 27, 1895, at Springfield, Mass. It 

 was a thoroughly practical address, dealing with all the phases of 

 the work which the then new body of officials were engaged upon. 



Dr. Smith's bibliography covers hundreds of titles. His industry 

 was enormous. He not only made his office a noted one for its prac- 

 tical work, but he maintained all through his career an active inter- 

 est in every phase of entomological research. He published, for 

 example, two great catalogues of the insects in New Jersey and very 

 many systematic papers upon that Lepidopterous Family, Noctuidse. 



His latest work, and that which perhaps brought him the most 

 fame, was that with the New Jersey mosquitoes. He was the first 

 entomologist who realized and who proved that the banded-legged 

 mosquitoes of the Atlantic coast must differ widel}^ in habit and 

 mode of life from the rainwater-barrel mosquitoes and the woodland 

 mosquitoes of the interior; and he found that these salt-marsh mos- 

 quitoes breed in the salt marshes and that their eggs are not laid in 

 the water but on the mud and that they fly a distance of from 30 to 

 40 miles. These claims seemed revolutionary to earlier students of 

 mosquitoes, but he proved his case beyond doubt and succeeded 

 finally in securing a large appropriation from his State, and in 

 demonstrating that it is possible at a comparatively slight expense to 

 control even these wild, salt-marsh forms. 



Dr. Smith's death is a great loss to the State of New Jersey and to 

 American economic entomology. 



