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His activities in connection with the Association during the 

 first year of its existence were mostly confined to those of presiding 

 officer; but subsequently he contributed the following papers: 

 Notes on Deep Sea Dredging, Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten 

 Is. 1 : 17. Jan. 10, 1885; Notes on the Mollusca of Staten Island, 

 Ibid. 35. June 12, 1886; Catalogue of the Mollusca of Staten 

 Island, Ibid. 50 (Extra No. 5). Mar. 1887; Note on the Distri- 

 bution of Littorina littoria along the Atlantic Coast, Ibid. 61. 

 Jan. 14, 1888; Note on Limax maxima, Ibid. 68. June 9, 1888; 

 Memorandum on an Old Indian Deed to Staten Island, Ibid. 2: 

 81. June 13, 1891; Notes on the Shells of the John J. Crooke 

 Collection, Ibid. 3: 14. May 14, 1892; Memorandum on Mer- 

 lucius hilinearis, Ibid. 20. Sept. 10, 1892. 



Mr. Smith donated to our museum a large and valuable col- 

 lection of minerals, and bequeathed to our library many works on 

 genealogy, others on general scientific subjects, and a fine 

 collection of picture postal cards of Staten Island. The library 

 material has not yet been completely assorted, and many valuable 

 and interesting books, pamphlets, pictures, maps, etc., yet remain 

 to be accessioned and catalogued. 



During the period from 1881 to 1893 Mr. Smith was specially 

 engaged by the American Museum of Natural History, under 

 Professor R. P. Whitfield, to classify, label, and arrange the shell 

 collections. He was well known in the scientific world as a 

 conchologist and malacologist and also for his work in connection 

 with the United States Fish Commission from 1 875-1 887. 



Of greatest interest to us, however, aside from his contri- 

 butions to our Proceedings, is his joint paper with Dr. J. W. 

 Hubbard, which is one of the earliest published contributions to 

 our local natural history records. This paper is the Catalogue 

 of the Mollusca of Staten Island, N. Y., read before the New 

 York Lyceum of Natural History, May i, 1865, and printed in 

 1867 in its Annals, volume 8, pages 151-154. 



In the same volume of the Annals may also be found, on pages 

 1 49-151, his Notice of a Post-Pliocene Deposit on Gardiner's 

 Island, Suffolk Co., N. Y., and on pages 194, 195, Catalogue of 



