REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 25 



With the death of Mr. Werner, the New Jersey State Museum 

 loses another of its best friends and workers, the others being 

 Prof. Apgar, in charge of the Department of Birds and Botany; 

 Dr. E. B. V^oorhees, one of the Commissioners, and Dr. John B. 

 Smith, the head of the Department of Entomology. 



Mr. Werner has been the State Taxidermist since the creation 

 of the State Museum in 1895. He has mounted and arranged 

 most of the birds and mammals in it. Before coming to our 

 State he prepared the Pennsylvania State exhibits and those of 

 the Lehigh University. At the St. Louis and Jamestown Ex- 

 position he arranged the birds and mammals for the exhibits. 

 He has always been devoted to the success of the Museum, and 

 was a friend who was true, honest and lovable. 



The Museum and the Curator have lost a friend whose place 

 cannot be filled. His work will be his monument when we shall 

 all have passed away. 



Silas R. Morse, 



Curator. 



Memorial to Dr. John B. Smith. 



Dr. John B. Smith was born on November 21st, 1859, in New 

 York City, of German parentage, and was educated in the 

 public schools. He was admitted to the bar in 1880, and prac- 

 ticed law in Brooklyn between 1880 and 1884. He was greatly 

 interested in insects, joined the Brooklyn Entomological Society 

 of that time, and became editor of the bulletin of that society. 

 This publication he afterwards developed into a periodical 

 known as "Entomologica Americana," which became an import- 

 ant vehicle for the publication of smaller papers and notes. In 

 1884, he was made special agent of the Division of Entomology, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, and for two years did field 

 work, especially upon insects affecting hop and cranberry. This 

 was his first introduction to economic entomology. In 1886 

 he was made aid in the Division of Insects of the U. S. National 

 Museum, and held this position until he was appointed to his 

 final position in New Jersey. During the four years he was con- 



