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principal papers being on the family Apioninae, the family Mor^ 

 dellidae, the tribe Hispini, and the genus Lachnosterna. In all, 

 his skill with the pencil permitted the use of copious illustration, 

 and in the Lachnosterna papers, the free use made of the genitalia 

 in definitely characterizing species based on otherwise illusory 

 differences, may be said to have set an example to workers in 

 Coleoptera which will never be forgotten. Throughout these 

 papers there is a clearness of diction that makes them exceed- 

 ingly useful to the student ; the Apion paper is, indeed, superseded 

 by the later work of Fall, but the others remain, and are likely to 

 long remain, the standard works of reference in the groups treated. 

 About seventy new species of Coleoptera are described in Smith's 

 various papers. 



It was not, however, as an author only that Smith was a potent 

 factor in the study of Coleoptera, but also as an inspiration to 

 other men. Allusion has already been made to his drawings illus- 

 trating the work of Schaupp ; another instance is the synopsis of 

 Lucanidae by Charles Fuchs, and I may add that, his aid though 

 unsigned was freely given in the preparation of that and many 

 other beetle papers published at the close of the last century. It 

 may interest you to see in his familiar handwriting, descriptions 

 copied for Schaupp, while that author was preparing his synopsis 

 of Cicindelidae ; and I am glad to remember that Sunday on 

 Staten Island when he proposed to me the writing of synopses o^ 

 Cerambycidae and promised aid in copying descriptions, making 

 drawings, borrowing specimens, etc., promises that were all ful- 

 filled in overflowing measure. Those early synopses of Ceramby- 

 cidae are in truth partly Smith's individual work, and wholly the 

 result of his urging and executive ability. 



There is, then, small wonder that when he came to prepare 

 the " List of the Insects of New Jersey," which seems to many, 

 measured by the influence it has had on other men and on the 

 advancement of entomology, by far his greatest work, the coleop- 

 terists of Brooklyn, New York, Newark and Philadelphia vied 

 with each other in giving that cooperation which made it an 



