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nected with the National Museum, it is true that his work was 

 all of a systematic character and that he did no actual work 

 in economic entomology, but he was a member of the En- 

 tomological Society of Washington and was constantly asso- 

 ciated with the men of the Division of Entomology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, and followed their work intimately 

 and discussed it with them; so that he really lived in an atmos- 

 phere of practical work. 



With the founding of the Association of Economic En- 

 tomologists, an organization which has made a great impress 

 on practical entomology, not only in this country but in other 

 parts of the world. Dr. Smith was made secretary of the asso- 

 ciation and held this office for two years. He was made second 

 vice-president in 1893, first vice-president in 1894, and president 

 in 1895. His address as retiring president was entitled "En- 

 tomological Notes and Problems," and was delivered August 

 27th, 1895, at Springfield, Mass. It was a thoroughly practical 

 address, dealing with all the phases of the work which the then 

 new body of officials were engaged upon. 



Dr. Smith's bibliography covers hundreds of titles. His in- 

 dustry was enormous. He not only made his office a noted one 

 for its practical work, but he maintained all through his career 

 an active interest in every phase of entomological research. He 

 published, for example, two great catalogues of the insects in 

 New Jersey, and very many systematic papers upon that Lepi- 

 dopterous Family, Noctuidse. 



His latest work, and that which perhaps brought him the most 

 fame, was that with the New Jersey mosquitoes. He was the 

 first entomologist who realized and who proved that the banded- 

 legged mosquitoes of the Atlantic coast must differ widely in 

 habit and mode of life from the rain-barrel mosquitoes and the 

 woodland mosquitoes of the interior; and he found that these 

 salt-marsh mosquitoes breed in the salt marshes, and that their 

 eggs are not laid in the water but on the mud, and that they fly 

 a distance of from thirty to forty miles. These claims seemed 

 revolutionary to earlier students of mosquitoes, but he proved 

 his case beyond doubt and succeeded finally in securing a large 



