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paper entitled “ Description of Calamoichthys, a New Genus of 
Ganoid Fish, from Old Calabar, Western Africa, forming an addition 
to the Family Polypterini.” This paper, which is illustrated by two 
plates, is published in the Transactions for Session 1865-66. It 
affords an exceedingly good proof of Dr Smith’s ability as a natur- 
alist. Several specimens of both sexes were examined. The char- 
acteristics are precise, and embrace the minutiae of every part, while 
much interesting information is given concerning the habits and 
food of these forms. 
Dr Smith also contributed papers to the Edinburgh New 
Philosophical Journal, the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, and the Journal of Anatomy. 
Dr Smith was Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries from 1852 
till the time of his death, with the exception of two triennial 
periods, 1870-75 and 1875-78, when he held the office of Vice- 
President. Between 1850 and 1882, he contributed forty-five 
papers to its Proceedings. For many years he acted as joint-editor 
of the Proceedings, first in association with his intimate friend 
David Laing, and afterwards with Dr Arthur Mitchell. Dr 
Smith’s archaeological contributions are all interesting, and many of 
them valuable additions to the literature of Archaeology. They 
illustrate the wide range of his knowledge. And all who were 
acquainted with his conscientious habits of study, with his devotion 
to true scientific method, and with the thoroughness of the investi- 
gation brought to bear on the subjects in hand, will not think it 
too much to affirm that he dealt with each of these subjects as if it 
only had ever held the chief place in his thought. His papers 
might be grouped thus, — Prehistoric Eemains, Eoman Eemains, 
Mediaeval Eemains, Antiquarian Literature, Eock Sculpturings, and 
Archaeo-Zoology. His contributions to the last group are very 
able and important. They bear emphatic testimony to Dr Smith’s 
great attainments in Comparative Zoology. With characteristic 
precision he identifies the bones of mammal, bird, and fish, and 
skilfully uses the articles found in cave, or grave, or gravel heap in 
association with them, to serve for deductions touching the industrial 
conditions of the time, or for supplying a key to the age of the 
deposits themselves in which they occur. He did much, along with 
others who survive, to apply the recognised principles of historical 
