Reprinted from The Amekican Naturalist, Vol. LXXX, No. 794, 

 pages 579-583, September-October, 1946. 



OBITUARY 

 BERTRAM GARNER SMITH, 1876-1945 



DE. E. W. GUDGEE 

 American Museum of Natural History 



Dr. Smith was born October 7, 1876, at Painesville, 

 Ohio, the son of Albert W. and Ella Garner Smitli. He 

 died of a heart attack at his home in Albuquerque, N. M., 

 July 30, 1945. He is survived by his wife and a daughter. 

 He was of New England ancestry, through his grand- 

 mother Smith, from the Mortons who settled New Salem, 

 Mass., about 1660. 



When Smith was about two years old, his parents 

 moved to Youngsville, Warren Co., northwestern Penn- 

 sylvania. There he received his early education, gradu- 

 ating from high school in 1893. In 1894, he entered the 

 Pennsylvania State Normal School at Edinboro and 

 graduated in 1896. For the next two years he taught 

 in the public grade schools of his section of Pennsylvania. 

 From 1899 to 1902, during the winters, he taught the 

 sciences in the High Schools of AVarren, Dubois, and 

 Corry, Pa., and between times attended the summer ses- 

 sions of Cornell University. In 1903, he matriculated at 

 the University of Michigan, where he was assistant in 

 zoology to Professor J. E. Reighard 1904r-07, and from 

 which he graduated A.B. in 1907. 



He was instructor in biology at Lake Forest College 

 in the spring of 1907, in zoology at Syracuse University 

 1907-09, and at Wisconsin in 1909-11. In 1911, he 

 entered Columbia University as a graduate student in 

 zoology under Dr. Bashford Dean, and because of much 

 published research, he was able to take his Ph.D. in 1912. 

 From this year's work stemmed a lifelong friendship 

 with Dr. Dean. From 1912-16, he was assistant profes- 

 sor of zoology at Michigan State Normal College and 

 associate professor 1916-21. From 1921 to 1930 he was 

 associate professor of anatomy in New York University 



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