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Sciences in Philadelphia, took the vacant place for such time as he 

 was able to command the necessary funds. In 1910 Dr. Eugene 

 A. Smith, of the Geological Survey of Alabama, induced Mr. and 

 Mrs. H. H. Smith to take charge of the museum at the University 

 of Alabama, and here they have been engaged for nearly a decade 

 in arranging and caring for the collections which have been accumu- 

 lated principally by the Geological Survey of Alabama. For the 

 past two or three years the Alabama Museum and the Carnegie 

 Museum have been working conjointly in the exploration of the 

 Tertiary deposits of Alabama, under the oversight of Mr. Smith, 

 and the result has been the discovery of a number of new and rich 

 deposits of Tertiary mollusca. Vast series of specimens had been 

 gathered by our indefatigable friends, and the last letter received 

 by the writer contained a request for a fresh supply of labels. It 

 was written only a day or two before the lamented death of the 

 sender. 



The work done by Mr. Smith in the field of entomology was 

 particularly great. The entomological collections made by him 

 are mainly contained in the National Museum at Rio de Janeiro, 

 in the British Museum (derived from the gift of the collections of 

 F. D. Godman) and in the Carnegie Museum, though parts of his 

 collections are scattered widely in other museums. There are in 

 the Carnegie Museum in the neighborhood of 25,000 species of 

 Brazilian Coleoptera assembled by him and many thousands of 

 species of insects in other orders. A memorandum recently re- 

 ceived by the writer from Mrs. Smith states that the Arthropoda 

 collected during the years of Mr. Smith's journeys in Brazil up to 

 May, 1886, aggregated approximately 40,000 species, distributed 

 as follows: 



Hymenoptera 5,000 



Diptera 2,500 



Lepidoptera 2,600 



Coleoptera 23,000 



Hemiptera 3.300 



Orthoptera 600 



Neuroptera 300 



Arachnida 2,000 



Crustacea 250 



Total 39.550 species 



