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The collections contained an aggregate of at least half a million of 

 individual specimens. Portions of the collections have been care- 

 tully studied and reported upon. Ashmead, Cresson, and others 

 ha^•e in part worked over the H>inenoptera. Williston did some- 

 thing with part of the Diptera. The Lepidoptera so far as they 

 represented the species of Middle-America were studied by God- 

 man and by Herbert Druce. Champion wrote up a part of the 

 Coleoptera, but the beetles of Brazil as a whole remain for the most 

 part to be studied; P. R. Uhler has described man}- of the Hemip- 

 tera, as did also W. L. Distant. The Orthoptera have been 

 studied by Dr. Lawrence Bruner and the Odonata by Dr. P. P. 

 Calvert. 



Mr. Smith was not a mere collector of natural history specimens. 

 He was a naturalist in the true sense of that much abused word. 

 He had a wide and accurate knowledge of the major divisions of 

 the animal kingdom and keen powers of discrimination. He was 

 especially well versed in conchology, though he wrote and published 

 but little. He was a systematist of far more than ordinary ability, 

 whose opinions were received with great respect by those who 

 employed him. He was an accomplished linguist. He was 

 familiar with the Greek and Latin classics, spoke Spanish readily 

 and used Portuguese as if it were his mother tongue. He also had a 

 good knowledge of French and German, sul^cient to enable him to 

 consult works in those languages. He was one of the survivors of a 

 group of naturalist explorers and investigators to whom we are 

 indebted for much of our knowledge of the fauna and flora of trop- 

 ical America. He belonged to an illustrious company which, 

 beginning with Humboldt and Bonpland, included in its ranks 

 such men as Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry W. Bates, J. N. Natterer, 

 J. J. Tschudi, J. B. Hatcher and J. D. Haseman, who courageously 

 faced dangers in the wilderness in order to secure information at 

 first hand as to the fauna and flora of the great continent where 

 they labored. \V. J. H. 



