IN MEMORIAM 
ARTHUR G. SMITH. 
Arthur Gr. Smith, Professor of Mathematics in the State Uni- 
versity of Iowa, a Fellow of this Academy and of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, died on November 
7, 1916. 
Born November 27, 1868, Professor Smith took his B. Ph. at 
the State University in 1891. He became a member of the staff 
in 1893, proceeding to the Master’s degree in 1894. His Iowa 
training was supplemented by extended residence at Gottingen 
where he was a pupil of Klein and Schoenflies and at Cam- 
bridge (England) where he studied with G. H. Darwin. 
For twenty-three years he served the State of Iowa with en- 
thusiastic and far sighted activity at the University. He was 
known far and wide as a genial and broad minded scientific 
worker and in his devotion to the athletic interests of the Uni- 
versity has left a record of work done under many difficulties 
which is an enduring monument of energy, wisdom and single 
hearted devotion to the best interests of the youth of Iowa. 
The fact that he was largely responsible for the introduction 
of a rational college marking system in the University takes on 
a peculiar light in view of the fact that his own early training 
was on a system devoid of marks, credits and rewards. 
The breadth of scientific range which characterized him may 
be judged by the following bibliography : 
Empirical Formulae and Constants: Transit, Yol. 9, 
33-67, 1903. 
Measurements upon the Okoboji Indian Skulls : Iowa 
Journal of History and Politics, Yol. 3, 435-444, 1905. 
College Spirit : Iowa Athletic Journal. 
Evaporation from Free Water Surfaces : Iowa Academy 
of Science, Proceedings, Yol. XYI, 185-188, 1909. 
Intercollegiate Relations: Iowa Alumnus, Yol. 6, 140- 
145, 1909. 
