xiv Obituary. 
Apart from his remarkable achievement in the conduct of the above 
journal, Mr. Smith published much valuable matter in book form. Of these 
the most notable is Hawaiki—T he Original Home of the Maori, published in 
1898 (fourth edition 1921); while others were as follows: The Kermadec 
Islands (1887); The Peopling of the North (1898); Niue Island and its 
People (1903) ; Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century (1904 ; second edition 
1910) ; History and Traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast (1910) ; The 
Lore a the Whare Wananga (Part 1, 1913; Part 2, 1915). 
n recognition of his valuable work in Polynesian ethnology he was, in 
1919, awarded the Hector Medal by the New Zealand Institute, of which 
Institute he was one of the first twenty Fellows elected in 1920. He was 
corresponding member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great 
Britain, of the Societa d’Anthropologia d’Italia, of the Royal Geographical 
Society of Australasia, and of the Hawaiian Historical Society. 
In the years that lie before, the result of Mr. Smith’s talents and 
indefatigable industry will assuredly be highly appreciated by students of 
Maori enthnology and the early history of New Zealand and Polynesia. He 
was a жеры collector (in itself а rare quality) апа a facile write 
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Above all throughout the long life of Stephenson Percy Smith shone 
forth the powers and wide influence of sterling character. He died at his 
residence, “ Mataimoana," New Plymouth, on the 19th April, 1922. 
Etspon Best. 
DAVID SHARP, 1840-1922. 
Dr. Davip SHARP, one of the most distinguished entomologists of the 
present time, died at his residence, Lawnside, Brockenhurst, England, on 
Sunday, the 27th August, 1922. He was born at Towcester, Northants, 
on the 15th October, 1840. He studied medicine, first at St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital, London, and subsequently at Edinburgh, where, in 1866, he 
pated as M.B. and C.M. In 1867 he was appointed to the Crichton 
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