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HERBERT HUNTINGTON SMITH.i 



Born January 21, 1S51; died March 22, 1919. 



(Plate LXII.) 



The wide circle of his friends and acquaintances were shocked to 

 read in the daily journals that on March 22 Mr. Herbert Hunting- 

 ton Smith, the curator of the Alabama Museum, had been killed 

 by being run over by a freight train. In recent years he had be- 

 come very deaf, and it was owing to this infirmity that he came to 

 his untimely end. Once before, in the city of Pittsburgh, he had 

 been struck by an electric car, the approach of which he had not 

 observed, but fortunately escaped at that time with only a few 

 bruises. 



A number of years ago Lord Walsingham in an address before 

 the Entomological Society of London in speaking of the work of 

 field naturalists and the additions made by them to the sum of 

 human knowledge, made the statement that the two ablest collectors 

 were Americans, one of them the late William H. Doherty, the 

 other Herbert Huntington Smith. With both of these men the 

 writer of these lines was intimately associated, both of them having 

 made extensive collections for him in foreign parts, and both came 

 to their end under tragic circumstances. Doherty died in Uganda, 

 as the result of nervous prostration brought about partly by ex- 

 posure, partly by the fact that his camp was haunted by man-eating 

 lions, which had killed several of his assistants. Smith passed 

 away in the midst of important activities, as the result of a horrible 

 accident. 



My acquaintance with Mr. Herbert Huntington Smith, which 

 has covered nearly thirty years of his life, enables me to speak of him 

 with an appreciation founded upon intimate knowledge. 



He was born at Manlius, New York, on January 21, 1851. 

 He studied at Cornell University from 1868 to 1872. In 1870 he 

 accompanied his friend and teacher, the late Professor C. F. Hartt, 



' This article is a reproduction of the substance of biographies by the writer 

 pubh'shed in Science, N.S., Vol. XLIX, No. 1273, pp. 481-483, and in the 

 Enlotnological News, Vol. XXX, pp. 21 1-2 14. 



