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water-colour drawings ot" the Sasidiomycetes, now exhibited in 

 the Botanical Grallerv, of which Smith published an interesting 

 account in this Journal for 1892 (p. 37) : more than 2,000 species are 

 figured, on 96 sheets of double elephant paper : the work occupied 

 Smith for nine years, and has been occasionally supplemented by 

 additions. 



In 1844 the coloured models made by James Sowerby (1757- 

 1822) during the preparation of his work on English Fungi were 

 purchased for the Museum. In course of time these had become 

 dirty and damaged, and Smith was engaged to repaint them: an 

 account of the models fi-om his pen, with supplementary notes by 

 Mr. Carruthers, then Keeper of the Department, at whose request the 

 work was undertaken, will be found in Journ. Bot. 1888, pp. 231, 268. 

 In 1903 a Guide to these models was published as one of the Catalogues 

 of the Natural History Museum : this is much more than its title 

 niight suggest, as Smith really made it a popular handbook to the 

 better known of our larger fungi : the figures are from Stevenson's 

 book. The drawings for Sowerby's English Fungi were presented to 

 the Department in 1876, and Smith published a detailed account of 

 them in this Journal for 1905. In 1891 Smith's Supplement to 

 Berkeley's Outlines of British Fungology, published thirty years 

 before, was issued by Messrs. Lovell Reeve & Co. 



When preparing the exhibited series of coloured drawings to 

 which reference has been made, Smith drew up manuscript descrip- 

 tions of all the species, accompanied by line drawings illustrating the 

 characters of each genus. These were acquired by the Department of 

 Botany in l.-^05 ; they formed the basis of a Synopsis of the Uritish 

 Basidiomycetes — styled, not quite accui'ately, " a descriptive catalogue 

 of the drawings and speciniens in the Department of Botany," — • 

 which was published by the Museum in 1908 : it is a volume of 531 

 pages and is Smith's largest work, summing up as it does the know- 

 ledge acquired by him during the preceding sixty years. Of this 

 work two reviews will be found in Journ. Bot. 1909, 32-38, to which, 

 in the Departmental copy, Smith has added MS. i-totes in reply to 

 criticisms. For the Museum he also prepared a large coloured 

 drawing illustrating Field and Cultivated Jfushrooms and fungi 

 often mistaken for them : this was published in smaller size with a 

 descriptive "Guide" in 1910; in the same_ year two large sheets 

 of coloured drawings, respectively representing edible and poisonous 

 fungi, were prepared by him for exhibition in the Department. 



Besides separate wc^rks and papers already referred to. Smith was 

 a frequent contributor to various magazines, among Avhich may be 

 mentioned Mature, Grevillea, The Monthly Microscopical Journal, 

 The Popular Science Review, and The Scot-fish JVaturaUst. In this 

 Journal, especially in its earlier days, he published numerous notes 

 and papers ; in the second volume (1864), besides the Euphorbia 

 papers already mentioned, he gave a detailed account of poisoning by 

 Agar icus fert His, by which he himself and his family were seriously 

 affected. His communications, which included original articles and 

 reviews, chiefly related to fungi ; of the latter an amusing criticism 

 of De Lisle Hay's Text-lool- of British Fungi (Journ. Bot. 1887, 



