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He was a member of the Academy of Natural vSciences of 

 Philadelphia, the American Entomological Society and the Phil- 

 adelphia Botanical Club, as well as of many historical and lit- 

 erary societies. In the Entomological Society he served on 

 the Committee on Coleoptera in 1879, on the Executive Com- 

 mittee in 1888 and on the Publication Committee from 1889 to 



1913- 



In spite of his great interest in Natural History, his publica- 

 tions seem to have been entirely upon historical subjects, most 

 of them being contributions to the Pennsylvania Magazine of 

 History and Biography, issued by the Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Smith was a remarkably well read man, with a knowl- 

 edge of a variety of subjects, but modest and retiring,- so that 

 few realized his attainments. In science he was one of those 

 who find greater satisfaction supplying valuable material and 

 information for the use of others than to engage in original 

 publication. — Witmer Stone. 



In August, 191 8, he presented his collection of Coleoptera, 

 neatly labeled and arranged in ninety boxes, of a modified 

 Schmitt type, to the Zoological Laboratory of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, where it has been installed in Brock cases. Ac- 

 cording to a memorandum in the copy of Henshaw's List which, 

 marked for the species represented, served as a catalogue of 

 his collection, he had about 10,000 specimens of 2333 species, 

 very largely from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and from 

 Colorado, but from other States as well. Many of the locality 

 labels (and this applies to the Colorado specimens) give the 

 State name only. At the time when he made this gift, he re- 

 called his personal association with Doctors Le Conte and Horn 

 in the early decades of the Entomological Society, and that 

 failing eyesight caused him to turn his studies from beetles to 

 plants. He left a number of drawings of details of Rhyncho- 

 phora which his daughter, Miss Alice L. Smith, has placed 

 in the writer's custody ; it may be that they can be utilized as 

 -illustrations for some future publication on the group. — 

 Philip P. Cai^vert. 



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