THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Vor. XIT.] APRIL, 1879. [No. 191. 
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
No. “EAT. 
FREDERICK SMITH. 
TuovaeH born in London, on the 30th December, 1805, the 
subject of this notice was a son of Mr. William Smith, of Water 
Fulford, near York, and was educated at Leeds. When his 
school-days were over he was apprenticed to Mr. W. B. Cooke, 
an eminent landscape engraver, in Soho Square, who had lodging 
with him a nephew, William Edward Shuckard, then apprenticed 
to a firm of booksellers in Paternoster Row. The two lads 
occupied the same room; and thus commenced a friendship 
which lasted till Shuckard’s death. At this time neither of them 
exhibited any partiality for Entomology; but after several years 
Shuckard returned to his native town of Brighton, ‘and having 
much time on his hands he used to employ it in rambling over 
the downs, and on one occasion while there his attention was by 
mere accident attracted by some insects scrambling up a sandy 
bank. One of these he caught; it was Cicindela campestris ; he 
admired its beauty, went again and again to the downs, and 
there, on the sandy banks, saw bees burrowing. His hymen- 
opterous studies dated from these solitary rambles on the 
Sussex downs. He soon afterwards procured a copy of Kirby’s 
‘Monographia Apum Anglie, and from this time his whole 
energies were devoted to Hymenoptera.” (Hntom. iv. 182.) The 
future author of the ‘ Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymen- 
optera of Great Britain’ soon won over his friend to the same 
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