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fill the obligations they have assumed. Re- 
ports were received from twenty-seven holders 
of grants and accepted as reports of progress. 
It was voted to make the following new 
grants: 
No. 170, $100 to Professor Arthur L. Foley, Indiana 
University, Bloomington, Indiana, for photo- 
graphic researches on the spectra of various 
gases, the money to be applied to the purchase 
of quartz tubes. (Application 1,243.) 
No. 171, $250 to Professor Paul Schiefferdecker, 
Bonn, Germany, for the investigation of the 
microscopic structure of muscles. (Application 
1,252.) 
No. 172, $75 to K. Stolyhwo, rue Kaliksta, Var- 
sovie, Poland, for the archeological exploration 
of the Cave of Lary, Poland. (Application 
1,264.) 
No. 173, $180 to Professor H. Konen, Fiirsten- 
bergerstrasse 4, Minster, W., Germany, for the 
study of the lower end of the spectrum, the 
money to be used for the purchase of quartz 
rock salt objectives. (Application 1,245.) 
No. 174, $100 to Dr. Paul D. Lamson, Bahnhof- 
strasse 20, Wurzburg, Germany, for researches 
on the pharmacotherapy of snake-bites. (Appli- 
cation 1,258.) 
No. 175, $40 to W. Doberck, Esq., Kowloon, Elgin 
Road, Sutton, Surrey, England, for observations 
on comets, the money to be used for the purchase 
of a comet eyepiece. (For application, see 
Grants made, Report 383.) 
No. 176, $250 to Professor Th. Boveri, Zoologisches 
Institut, Wiirzburg, Germany, for experiments 
on the réle of the separate elements of cells in 
heredity. (Application 1,249.) 
Cuartes S. Minor, 
Secretary 
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, 
Boston 
JOHN BERNHARDT SMITH 
THE many personal friends of Doctor John 
Bernhardt Smith, state entomologist of New 
Jersey, had known for many months that he 
was in a most serious condition of health, but 
were none the less shocked and grieved to 
learn of his death on March 12 last. 
Few men have contributed more to the ad- 
vancement of the study of entomology in the 
United States, through both the systematic 
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and economic sides, than has the late New 
Jersey entomologist. He was born in New 
York City on November 21, 1858, and was 
educated in the schools of New York City and 
Brooklyn. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 
and practised law in Brooklyn between 1880 
and 1884. As a young man, he was greatly 
interested in the study of insects and joined 
the Brooklyn Entomological Society, devoting 
himself at first to the study of Coleoptera and 
afterwards turning his attention to Lepidop- 
tera. He became the editor of the Bulletin of 
the Brooklyn Entomological Society which 
afterwards developed into the journal known 
as Entomologica Americana, the most promi- 
nent periodical of its kind in those days for 
the publication of short papers and notes. 
Up to 1884, Doctor Smith was known only 
as a systematic entomologist, but in that year 
he was brought by the late OC. V. Riley to 
Washington and became field agent of the 
Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, and spent two years in investi- 
gating. insects affecting the hop and the cran- 
berry. In 1886, he was transferred to the 
U.S. National Museum, where he remained as 
assistant curator of insects until 1890. 
During this period, he was active in his 
systematic work publishing a number of excel- 
lent papers, and became prominent in the 
scientific life of Washington, joining the 
Cosmos Club and being made secretary of the 
Biological Society of Washington. 
With the founding of the state agricultural 
stations under the Hatch Act, he was ap- 
pointed entomologist of the State Agricultural 
Experiment Station of New Jersey and there 
really began his important economic work. 
which lasted until his fatal illness came. All 
the difficulties of insect emergency which the 
agricultural and horticultural interests of New 
Jersey had to face during that period were 
met by Doctor Smith with a rare comprehen- 
sion and an equally rare ability to handle 
them. He was foremost in the work against 
the San Jose scale in the early days and took 
an equal rank in the warfare against all the 
other threatening foes to agriculture and, in 
the last few years, conducted an admirably 
