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planned and successful crusade against the 
traditional insect of New Jersey, the mosquito. 
His mosquito work was based upon original 
observations which introduced revolutionary 
ideas into culicidology and his work on the salt 
marsh mosquitoes which fly inland from their 
breeding-places for many miles came as a 
startling revelation to the “ old fogy ” students 
of mosquitoes, of whom the writer of this 
notice was one. Further than that, Doctor 
Smith so impressed his views upon the legisla- 
ture and the governor of his state that his 
mosquito work was supported by large appro- 
priations. 
Through all this period of economic work, 
Smith was constantly working upon other 
aspects of entomology. Every few months 
would appear a systematic paper upon that 
difficult and complex group, the family Noc- 
tuide, and in the course of his New Jersey 
eareer he published two enormous catalogues 
of the insects of New Jersey. 
He was also the author of two admirable 
books, ‘“ Economie Entomology for the Farmer 
and Fruit Grower,” Lippincott, 1896, and 
“Our Insect Friends and Foes,” Lippincott, 
1909. In addition to the position of ento- 
mologist of the New Jersey State Agricultural 
Experiment Station, he was professor of ento- 
mology in Rutgers College and state entomol- 
ogist of New Jersey. He was president of the 
Association of Economic Entomologists in 
1896 and president of the Entomological So- 
ciety of America in 1910. In 1891 he was 
given the honorary degree of Sc.D. by Rutgers 
College. 
While not a pioneer in entomology in the 
United States, Smith was a leader in the sec- 
ond generation of men who have helped to 
make American economic entomology assume 
the first rank in the world. L. O. Howarp 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Proressor Appotr LawrENCE Rorca has be- 
queathed to Harvard University the Blue Hill 
Meteorological Observatory, which he estab- 
lished in 1885 and had directed up to the time 
of his death. He has further provided an en- 
dowment fund of $50,000. 
SCIENCE 
[N.S. Vou. XXXV. No. 903 
Tue will of Lord Lister disposes of prop- 
erty valued at £66,166. In addition to a num- 
ber of family bequests he left £10,000 each to 
the Royal Society, King Edward’s Hospital 
Fund, King’s College Hospital and the North 
London and University College Hospital. He 
stated that he did not wish that his name 
should be “in any way associated with these 
sums in the future.” He also left £20,000 to 
the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, 
and requested his nephews, Mr. Rickman 
John Godlee and Mr. Arthur Hugh Lister, to 
his scientific manuscripts and 
sketches, destroying or disposing of such as 
were of no permanent scientific interest. He 
left his manuscripts and sketches when so ar- 
ranged to the Royal College of Surgeons, 
England. In the bequest of his Orders and 
medals to the Edinburgh University, Lord 
Lister stated: “I expressly declare that it is 
my intention that the university authorities 
for the time being shall be perfectly at liberty 
to dispose of all or any part of the gift—for 
example, by having the medals melted down 
or the diplomas or other writings destroyed— 
at any time and in any manner that may seem 
to them desirable.” 
arrange 
Dr. Tra Remsen has tendered his resigna- 
tion as president of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity. He will remain professor of chemis- 
try, which he has been since the opening of 
the university in 1876. Dr. Remsen’s letter 
of resignation in part reads as follows: “ For 
some time past it has seemed best to me that 
I should retire from the presidency of the 
university, but those whom I have consulted 
have urged me to postpone action until cer- 
tain important things have been accomplished. 
This has now been done and I accordingly 
tender my resignation to take effect at the end 
of the present academic year. I have held the 
position for eleven years. This covers a fairly 
well-defined period in the history of the uni- 
versity, a period of steady growth and espe- 
cially of preparation for a new era, which 
while maintaining and strengthening the old 
ideals and high standards of the university, 
will lead to larger and in some directions new 
