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of the Society in the year 1852, and died on the 5th of August, 

 1859, aged 57. 



Lieut.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith, K.H., K.W., F.B.8.,Sfe., 

 Sfc, was born in the year 1776 in Austrian Flanders. He be- 

 longed to a Protestant family holding a good position in the pro- 

 vince, and partly of British descent. At an early age he was sent 

 to school in England, but, on tlie outbreak of the revolutionary 

 troubles, returned to Flanders, and prosecuted his studies at the 

 Engineer Academy of Mechlin and at Louvain. 



Attached to the British forces, and under the patronage of the 

 Earl of Moira, he served in various parts, and in December 1797 

 joined the 60th Regiment in the West Indies, where he became 

 Brigade Major imder Major- General Carmichael. He served for 

 twelve years in the West Indies, and in 1809 took part in the Wal- 

 cheren expedition as Deputy Quartermaster General. He after- 

 wards served with great distinction in Holland and Brabant, cap- 

 turing the fortress of Tholen with a handful of German auxiliaries. 



He continued to be actively engaged in different capacities and 

 in various parts of the globe, in all displaying the utmost zeal and 

 intelligence. He went on half-pay, however, in 1820, after which 

 he was not again employed. Services such as these, so varied and 

 so incessant, speak for themselves. They constitute, however, but 

 a small portion of Col. Smith's claims to distinction and remem- 

 brance. In the intervals of his active military career he found 

 leisure to prosecute various branches of study, and to accumulate 

 materials for numerous writings on subjects of historical, zoolo- 

 gical, antiquarian, and scriptural research, in which he was aided 

 by remarkable powers of memory, and by a skill and facility of 

 pictorial representation almost unrivalled. 



Col. Smith was a voluminous author on various subjects, histo- 

 rical and military, — works to which no particular reference need 

 here be made. But of his scientific labours, should be noticed, in 

 the domain of Natural History, the account of the Rumiuantia in 

 Cxivier's ' Eegne Animal ' in Griffith's edition, 1855, which was 

 written by him, and many of the engravings in that edition were 

 from drawings furnished by his pencil. At a later period he sup- 

 plied the volumes on "Dogs," "Horses," and "Introduction to 

 Mammalia," to the 'Naturalists' Library,' edited by Sir W.Jardine ; 

 and, in connexion with the same work, he published in 1848 the 

 *' Natural History of the Human Species." He was also tlie author 

 of the elaborate articles on Natural History and on Warfare in 

 the 'Cyclopjedia of Scriptural KnoAvledge ' of Dr. Kitto. 



