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to secure the services of a competent successor. As a temporary 
measure Lady Thiselton-Dyer, with much public spirit, came to 
her father’s assistance and supplied drawings for the Magazine 
during th: period 1878-83. But the task of finding a permanent 
artist for this important serial, capable of rendering the service 
required and willing to do so in return for the pittance which 
public opinion forty years ago regarded as an adequate remunera- 
tion for work of a scientific character, was no easy matter. 
Sir Joseph learned that Miss Smith, a niece of Lady Eastlake 
and therefore a cousin, thrice removed, of his own, was endowed 
with a natural taste for plant-portraiture and had already 
acquired considerable skill in this branch of art. Sir Joseph 
was fortunately able to persuade Miss Smith to come to Kew 
where, from 1878 onward, he trained her himself to make and 
draw floral dissections. 
If Miss Smith was fortunate in having so competent a teacher, 
the latter was to be congratulated in finding so apt a pupil. 
From 1881 onwards Miss Smith became artist and lithographer, 
at plate 1354, for the Icones Plantarum, a serial prepared under 
the superintendence of the Herbarium staff and edited by the 
Director. Two years later Miss Smith became also artist for 
the Botanical Magazine, her work for which began with plate 6386. 
In addition to this work for the [cones Plantarum, performed 
on behalf of the Bentham Trustees, and for the Botanical 
Magazine, executed on behalf of the publishers of that journal, 
Miss Smith has prepared, since she first began her duties at 
Kew, many coloured portraits of living plants and drawings 
from herbarium specimens for the herbarium collection, as well 
as numerous figures to illustrate taxonomic and floristic botanical 
works and papers 
Though Miss ‘Smith thus became an essential and integral 
element in the institution, it was not until twenty years after 
her response to Sir Joseph Hooker’s invitation that her existence 
was recognised officially. As from 1 April, 1898, Miss Smith, 
on the recommendation of Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, was 
appointed Artist in the Herbarium under an arrangement which 
left her relationship with the Bentham Trustees and the 
Botanical Magazine unaffected and still permitted her to prepare 
illustrations for botanical work issued independently. 
Though in the technical sense of the term Miss Smith has 
thus been a Civil Servant for rather less than a quarter of a 
century, her loyal and single-minded devotion to botanical 
science as the Artist at Kew covers a period of forty years. 
Miss Smith carries with her on her retirement the sincere hope 
of her former colleagues that she may be long spared to enjoy 
the ey she has so fully earned. 
mith was elected an Associate of the Linnean Society 
Sai Noveanbel 3rd, in recognition of her services to Botanical 
ience. 
