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of Santarem, on the northern tributaries of the Amazons, and 

 on the Tapajos, concluding his stay in the country by a sojourn 

 of some months in the neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. Shortly 

 after his return to the United States he was commissioned by 

 the Messrs. Scribner to write a series of articles for their 

 magazine upon Brazil and twice revisited the country, on one 

 trip being accompanied by an artist, who was employed to 

 illustrate the papers he wrote. One of the results of these 

 journeys was the volume entitled "Brazil, the Amazons, and 

 the Coast," which was issued from the press of the Scribners 

 in 1879. In the fall of 1880 he married Miss Amelia Wool- 

 worth Smith of Brooklyn, N. Y., and together they repaired 

 to Brazil, residing there until the spring of 1886, making 

 their headquarters at Rio de Janeiro, but traveling extensively 

 in all parts of the country and making great collections of 

 natural history specimens. A volume in the Portuguese tongue 

 entitled *'De Rio de Janeiro a Cuyaba" was one of the by- 

 products of these years of travel and research. The year 1889 

 Avas passed in Mexico, where extensive collections were made 

 for Mr. F. Ducane Godman, who was engaged in the prepa- 

 ration of his monumental work, the "Biologia Centrali-Ameri- 

 cana." From 1890-1895 he spent much of his time in the 

 employment of the West Indian Commission of the Royal 

 Society in making a biological survey of Trinidad and tHe 

 Windward Islands. At the same time he was engaged in 

 writing and editing as a member of the stafif of the "Century 

 Dictionary," the ''Century Cyclopedia of Names," and "John- 

 son's Cyclopedia." In these works almost everything relating 

 to South and Central America and their fauna and flora is 

 from his pen. From 1897-1903 he was most of the time in 

 the employment of the Carnegie Museum, three years being 

 spent in collecting in the province of Santa Marta in Colom- 

 bia. From 1904 until his death he resided in Alabama, during 

 the last ten years of his life being the curator of the Museum 

 at the University of Alabama. 



Mr. Smith was interested in all branches of zoology and 

 botany. He collected vertebrates and invertebrates equally 



