136 THE NAUTILUS. 
The ribs on the right valve of jordani are all divided from near 
the umbones. 
One fine specimen (the type) living was obtained in July, 
1919, and one was taken in July, 1918, but is much thicker 
shell, a little larger than the type. Named in honor of Prof. 
Trevor Kincaid, of the Univ. of Washington, to whom we owe 
so much good material. Type is in Oldroyd Coll., Stanford 
University, No. 89. 
Pecten islandicus pugetensis n. var. Plate IV, figs, 5, 6. 
Shell much smaller than the typical, sculpture coarser in pro- 
portion to the size. Shell more elongate and the ribs spinose. 
Ribs 17 with a very fine one in the interspaces. 
The type is in the Oldroyd Collection, Stanford University. 
Type locality off San Juan Island, Puget Sound. 12 specimens 
were obtained, two from the Asha and ten from rocks on 
shore. 
HERBERT HUNTINGTON SMITH.! 
BY GEORGE H. CLAPP. 
The sudden death of Herbert Huntington Smith on March 
22nd last, at University, Alabama, meant more, perhaps, to the 
conchologists of the United Statcs than we now realize, although 
the collecting and serious study of shells was the work of the 
later years of his life. 
Born at Manlius, New York, on January 21, 1851, and grad- 
uated at Cornell University in 1872, he early in life became in- 
terested in natural history, and made some collections in differ- 
ent branches. Mr. Smith told me that his first real work was 
on fossils; and he later became interested in insects. When he 
began to collect the mollusca, I do not know; but when he 
joined the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, he had quite an ex- 
tensive general collection.. Between the years 1870 and 1886 
he made several trips to Brazil and altogether spent about eight 
1A portrait of Mr, Smith was published in the number for July, 1919. 
