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Vol. XLIV. LONDON, APRIL, 1912. No. 4 



OBITUARY. 



JOHN BERNHARDT S.MITH. 



It is with profound regret that we have to record the death, from 

 Bright's disease, of Dr. John Bernhardt Smith, Professor of Entomology 

 at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., Entomologist to the New Jersey 

 Agricultural Experiment Station^ and State Entomologist of New Jersey, 

 which occurred at his home during the morning of March 12, 1912. 



Dr. Smith was born in New York City on November 21, 1858, so he 

 died at a comparatively early age. It is a coincidence that the late Dr. 

 James Fletcher and the one we now mourn, who were such close friends, 

 should be called away at about the same age. Dr. Smith's early education 

 was received at the Public Schools. He practised law from 1880 to 

 1884, but his heart was not in such work, and during this latter year he 

 was appointed as a special agent to the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, which position he held until 1886, when he was made 

 Assistant- Curator of Insects in the United States National Museum. 

 Here he remained until 1889, when he was appointed Professor of 

 Entomology at Rutgers College and Entomologist to the New Jersey 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1894, he also received the title of 

 State Entomologist of New Jersey. During the years 1882 to 1890 he 

 was the editor of Entomologica Americana. For several years he was 

 also editor of the "Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society." 



Dr. Smith was an extremely busy man, one who in every way served 

 his state and countiy as few men have. A man of wide experience and 

 deep study he has, in his published works, left behind him a monument 

 of knowledge which will last for all time and which will imdoubtedly serve 

 as a guide for many future students of entomology. While in the Museum 

 at Washington, he published some very valuable monographic works, 

 namely, "A Monograph of the Sphingidse of America, North of Mexico," 

 "A Revision of the Lepidopterous Family Saturniid?e;" and " Preliminary 

 Catalogue of the Arctiidœ of Temperate North America." Bulletin No. 44 

 of the U. S. N. M„ pp. 1-424, '-A Catalogue, Bibliographical and 

 Synonymical, of the species of moths of the Lepidopterous Superfamily 



