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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  19 
  2 
  9 
  

  

  HARRISON 
  GRAY 
  DYAR 
  

  

  Harrison 
  Gray 
  Dyar, 
  custodian 
  of 
  lepidoptera 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  

   Museum, 
  died 
  January 
  21, 
  1929. 
  Doctor 
  Dyar 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  New 
  

   York, 
  February 
  14, 
  1866, 
  and 
  was 
  educated 
  at 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  In- 
  

   stitute 
  of 
  Technology 
  and 
  Columbia 
  University. 
  He 
  came 
  to 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  in 
  1897 
  and 
  his 
  term 
  of 
  service 
  amounted, 
  therefore, 
  to 
  more 
  

   than 
  30 
  years. 
  During 
  nearly 
  all 
  of 
  this 
  time 
  he 
  was 
  a 
  volunteer 
  

   and 
  unpaid 
  worker, 
  but 
  for 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  he 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  

   Bureau 
  of 
  Entomology. 
  

  

  Doctor 
  Dyar 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  authors 
  of 
  the 
  large 
  monograph 
  of 
  

   the 
  mosquitoes 
  of 
  North 
  America 
  published 
  nearly 
  20 
  years 
  ago 
  by 
  

   the 
  Carnegie 
  Institution, 
  and 
  he 
  continued 
  from 
  that 
  time 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  

   principal 
  specialist 
  in 
  the 
  group 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  hemisphere. 
  The 
  

   monograph 
  having 
  been 
  out 
  of 
  print 
  for 
  some 
  time 
  he 
  completed 
  

   quite 
  recently 
  a 
  new 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  mosquitoes 
  of 
  both 
  North 
  and 
  South 
  

   America, 
  which 
  was 
  published 
  last 
  year 
  hj 
  the 
  Carnegie 
  Institution 
  

   in 
  one 
  large 
  volume. 
  He 
  gave 
  much 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  early 
  stages 
  of 
  

   the 
  mosquitoes, 
  so 
  that 
  his 
  classification 
  covered 
  these 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  

   unusual 
  degree. 
  

  

  In 
  1917 
  Doctor 
  Dyar 
  gave 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  his 
  entire 
  collection 
  of 
  

   insects, 
  numbering 
  some 
  35,000 
  specimens. 
  As 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  his 
  labors 
  

   the 
  National 
  Museum 
  has 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  collections 
  of 
  mosquitoes 
  

   in 
  the 
  world 
  and 
  probably 
  by 
  far 
  the 
  largest 
  one 
  in 
  larval 
  stages 
  and 
  

   in 
  mounted 
  specimens 
  of 
  genitalia. 
  

  

  JOHN 
  DONNELL 
  SMITH 
  

  

  John 
  Donnell 
  Smith, 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  honorary 
  associate 
  in 
  

   botan}^, 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  died 
  December 
  2, 
  1928. 
  Captain 
  

   Smith 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  Baltimore 
  June 
  5, 
  1829, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  his 
  

   death 
  was 
  the 
  oldest 
  living 
  graduate 
  of 
  Yale 
  University. 
  Asid^ 
  

   from 
  distinguished 
  service 
  in 
  the 
  public 
  welfare, 
  his 
  interest 
  centered 
  

   in 
  the 
  botany 
  of 
  Central 
  America, 
  in 
  which 
  field 
  he 
  was 
  an 
  acknowl- 
  

   edged 
  authority. 
  In 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  his 
  studies 
  he 
  had 
  built 
  up 
  an 
  

   extensive 
  library 
  and 
  an 
  herbarium 
  of 
  over 
  100,000 
  specimens, 
  which 
  

   were 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  several 
  years 
  ago. 
  In 
  

   the 
  death 
  of 
  Captain 
  Smith 
  the 
  world 
  has 
  lost 
  a 
  scientist 
  of 
  note 
  and 
  

   the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  a 
  distinguished 
  friend 
  and 
  patron. 
  

  

  