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  PROCKIODINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MALACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  testimonials, 
  but 
  owing 
  to 
  peculiar 
  circumstances 
  las 
  official 
  con- 
  

   nectiou 
  with 
  the 
  Museum 
  was 
  at 
  the 
  last 
  moment 
  prolonged, 
  and 
  

   it 
  was 
  not 
  until 
  3 
  1st 
  March, 
  1913, 
  that 
  his 
  final 
  retirement 
  took 
  

   place. 
  He 
  continued 
  to 
  work 
  on 
  at 
  the 
  Museum 
  in 
  a 
  voluntary 
  

   capacity 
  and 
  hoped 
  to 
  do 
  so, 
  as 
  he 
  himself 
  wrote, 
  for 
  years 
  to 
  come. 
  

   Unfortunately 
  a 
  painful 
  malady, 
  which 
  an 
  operation 
  failed 
  to 
  relieve, 
  

   seized 
  him, 
  and 
  after 
  more 
  than 
  six 
  months' 
  severe 
  sulFering, 
  stoically 
  

   borne, 
  he 
  passed 
  away 
  on 
  22nd 
  July, 
  1916. 
  

  

  He 
  had 
  married 
  in 
  July, 
  1876, 
  and 
  leaves 
  a 
  widow, 
  four 
  sons 
  and 
  

   two 
  daughters. 
  

  

  Smith 
  became 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  of 
  London 
  in 
  

   1872, 
  and 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Conchological 
  Society 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  

   and 
  Ireland 
  in 
  1886, 
  being 
  its 
  President 
  for 
  1890. 
  He 
  was 
  furtlier 
  

   a 
  Corresponding 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Linnean 
  Society 
  of 
  New 
  South 
  

   Wales, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences 
  at 
  Pliiladelphia, 
  

   whilst 
  he 
  was 
  also 
  made 
  an 
  Honorary 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Midland 
  

   ^[alacological 
  Society, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  of 
  the 
  Malacological 
  Section 
  of 
  the 
  

   Birmingham 
  Natural 
  History 
  and 
  Philosophical 
  Society. 
  He 
  served 
  

   as 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Association 
  Committee 
  Avhich 
  was 
  

   appointed 
  in 
  1890 
  to 
  *' 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  present 
  state 
  of 
  our 
  knowledge 
  

   of 
  the 
  Zoology 
  of 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  Islands 
  ", 
  and 
  which 
  reported 
  

   regularly 
  from 
  1891 
  till 
  1912. 
  

  

  Save 
  for 
  ten 
  papers 
  on 
  Echinoderma, 
  published 
  between 
  1876 
  and 
  

   1879, 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  his 
  wonderful 
  industry 
  and 
  energy 
  was 
  applied 
  to 
  

   the 
  systematic 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  Mollusca, 
  whilst 
  working 
  out 
  and 
  

   incorporating 
  in 
  the 
  national 
  collections 
  the 
  many 
  gatherings 
  

   acciuired 
  from 
  all 
  the 
  world 
  around. 
  The 
  more 
  important 
  of 
  those 
  

   were 
  naturally 
  those 
  collected 
  during 
  the 
  principal 
  surveying 
  

   voyages. 
  Thus 
  the 
  Mollusca 
  obtained 
  during 
  the 
  Antarctic 
  voyage 
  

   of 
  the 
  JErebun 
  ami 
  Terror 
  {1839— 
  io), 
  which 
  had 
  lain 
  by 
  untouched, 
  

   were 
  dealt 
  with 
  by 
  liim 
  in 
  1875. 
  The 
  Ai'ctic 
  specimens, 
  collected 
  

   on 
  the 
  polar 
  voyage 
  of 
  the 
  Alert 
  and 
  Discovery 
  (1875-6), 
  were 
  

   described 
  in 
  1878. 
  The 
  results 
  of 
  the 
  'Transit 
  of 
  Venus 
  E.\:pedition 
  

   (1874-5) 
  to 
  Kerguelin's 
  Land 
  and 
  llodriguez 
  were 
  set 
  forth 
  in 
  the 
  

   special 
  volume 
  (vol. 
  clxviii) 
  of 
  the 
  Philosophical 
  Transactions 
  of 
  

   tlie 
  lloyal 
  Society 
  in 
  1879. 
  Tlie 
  accounts 
  of 
  shells 
  procured 
  during 
  

   the 
  voyages 
  of 
  the 
  Alert 
  to 
  the 
  Straits 
  of 
  Magellan 
  and 
  the 
  Indo- 
  

   Pacific 
  (1878-82) 
  were 
  published 
  in 
  1881 
  and 
  1884. 
  The 
  fine 
  reports 
  

   on 
  the 
  Lainellibranchia 
  and 
  Heteropoda 
  brought 
  home 
  by 
  the 
  

   Challenger 
  Expedition 
  (1873-6) 
  were, 
  however, 
  the 
  most 
  noteworthy 
  

   of 
  this 
  series, 
  and 
  appeared 
  in 
  1885 
  and 
  1888 
  respectively. 
  Mention 
  

   must 
  also 
  be 
  made 
  of 
  liis 
  reports 
  on 
  the 
  raolluscan 
  collections 
  of 
  tlie 
  

   Southern 
  Cross 
  in 
  1902, 
  from 
  Sokotra 
  1903, 
  from 
  the 
  Maldives 
  and 
  

   Laccadives 
  1902 
  and 
  1903, 
  from 
  the 
  National 
  Antarctic 
  Expedition 
  

   of 
  1901-4 
  in 
  1907, 
  and 
  finally 
  the 
  Terra 
  Nova 
  Expedition 
  of 
  1910 
  

   in 
  1915. 
  

  

  Of 
  minor 
  papers 
  some 
  300 
  in 
  all 
  came 
  from 
  his 
  facile 
  pen, 
  

   contributed 
  to 
  many 
  dilferent 
  scientific 
  serials 
  besides 
  our 
  own 
  

   "Proceedings", 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  edited 
  vols, 
  vi 
  to 
  xi 
  (1904-15). 
  These 
  

   were 
  mainly 
  descriptive 
  papers, 
  but 
  in 
  his 
  Presidential 
  Address 
  to 
  

  

  