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was shortly afterwards appointed one of the permanent stafl' of 

 the Museum, and eventually became Assistant Keeper of the 

 Zoological Department. Abandoning art for science he relin- 

 quished engraving as a profession, but he engraved from West- 

 wood's drawings the plates of Wollaston's ' Insecta Maderensia ' 

 (1854) ; and all the plates which illustrate the British Museum 

 Catalogues of Hymenoptera, and his own papers in the Trans- 

 actions of this and other Societies, were drawn and engraved by 

 himself. At a meeting of this Society, held on the Srd April, 

 1887, Mr. Ingpen read a letter from Mr. Smith, giving an account 

 of the natural history of one of the* Cynijndce which inhabits the 

 small flat galls on the underside of oak leaves (Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 1837, p. xliii.). This, I believe, is the first published of Frederick 

 Smith's observations. On the 2nd September, 1839, he read 

 some Notes on the Habits of British Ants, which, however, were 

 not printed until 1842 (Trans. Ent. Soc. iii. 151). From 1842 

 to the time of his death his publications were unceasing, and 

 some idea of his activity may be gathered from the fact that the 

 Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers enumerates no less 

 than a hundred and forty-one prior to the year 1874, many of them 

 monographs of high importance, all of them containing something 

 that was w^orthy of record. The Hymenoptera, Diptera, and 

 Neuroptera collected in Bodriguez by the Transit of Venus Expe- 

 dition in 1874-5 were worked out by INlr. Smith, and his account 

 thereof has appeared since his death as part of the extra volume 

 of the Philosophical Transactions devoted to the collections of 

 the Transit Expeditions. His last paper, "Descriptions of New 

 Species of Aculeate Hymenoptera collected by the Bev. Thomas 

 Blackburn in the Sandwich Islands," was posthumously read and 

 published in the Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoolog}^ xiv. 

 G74). To these must be added the works compiled by him for 

 the Trustees of the British Museum, including the Catalogues of 

 British Hymenoptera (with sixteen plates, 1855 and 1858; a 

 second edition of the Andrenidse and Apidae in 1876), and the 

 Catalogues of the Hymenopterous Insects of the whole world 

 (seven parts, with thirty-seven plates, 1853 to 1859),* — works 

 which, under the modest title of catalogues, in addition to the 



* The Trustees have, since Mr. Sinitli's deatli, published a volume of ' Descriptions 

 of new species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the Britisji Museum'; but it 

 consists of bare descriptions, and nothing more, and will scarcely increase the 

 author's repulation. 



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