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United States and Canada, in connexion with the Foreign Office, he, 

 in 1820, retired from active public duty. 



In the course of his active military life, Colonel Smith found time for 

 varied study. History, Archaeology, and Zoology were his favourite 

 subjects, and these he continued to cultivate in his retirement. The 

 matured, results of his labours he gave to the world in various well- 

 known works, of which he was sole or part author. For many of 

 these he had early begun to accumulate materials, especially pictorial 

 representations of the objects described ; and for this employment 

 his taste and skill as a draughtsman gave him both inducement and 

 facility. 



Whilst on the staif of the Horse Guards, he wrote the military 

 part of Archdeacon Coxe's c Life of Marlborough,' which is said to 

 have excited the interest of Napoleon at St. Helena as to its author- 

 ship, inasmuch as it showed a practical acquaintance with military 

 affairs scarcely to be expected of a churchman. He is also the author 

 of the article " War " in the ' Supplement to the Encyclopedia Bri- 

 tannica,' and of the introductory paper on the " Science of War " in 

 the ' Aide Memoire J of the Royal Engineers. 



The first publication in which the powers of Colonel Smith's 

 pencil were called into requisition was the ' Costume of the original 

 Inhabitants of the British Islands,' undertaken in connexion with the 

 late Sir Samuel Meyrick. A still greater work, which was in reality 

 hardly less indebted to Colonel Smith, although his name does not 

 appear in the title, is Sir S. Meyrick's ' Critical Inquiry into the His- 

 tory of Ancient Armour.' We are informed that most of the illus- 

 trations (blazoned in gold and colours) of that celebrated work were 

 copied, with his full concurrence, from Colonel Smith's drawings. 



Well, however, as Colonel Smith was known as a historical anti- 

 quary of no common order, his reputation as a writer on Natural 

 History was perhaps higher. The article "Ruminantia" in 

 Griffith's edition of Cuvier's 'Regne Animal' (1835) was written 

 by him ; and many of the engravings in that edition were from his 

 drawings. At a later period he supplied the volumes on Dogs,' 

 ' Horses,' and ' Introduction to Mammalia,' to Sir William Jardine's 

 'Naturalist's Library' ; and in connexion with the same series, he 

 published in 1848 his * Natural History of the Human Species.' He 

 was also the author of the elaborate articles on Natural History, and 



