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tinction. Space does not permit our following him through his 
military services and confidential missions, which would form a most 
interesting narrative. While thus actively engaged in the duties 
of his profession, which took him into various countries, he found 
time to make numerous drawings of costume, architecture, and 
natural objects; and it is these, and his scientific researches, that 
claim most notice as a member of this Institution. His labours 
in these directions are far too numerous and varied to be done any- 
thing like justice to in such a short notice as this necessarily is. 
Of his drawings, Colonel Smith communicated a general account 
in a letter to the President of this Society, printed in the volume 
of Transactions of 1830, where it occupies thirty-six pages; these 
drawings amounted to many thousands in number (all on atlas 4to 
paper), while his manuscript collections of notes, from his own 
observations and unpublished sources chiefly, occupy more than 
twenty thick volumes. The works of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick 
on ancient costume and armour were largely indebted to Colonel 
Smith's pencil ; as a naturalist he took even a higher position than 
as an antiquary. The works of Cuvier and Sir William Jardine, 
are indebted both to his pen and pencil ; he was also the author of 
the elaborate article on "Natural History and Warfare," in the 
Cyclopaedia of Scriptural Knoivledge, edited by Dr. Kitto ; nor 
does this exhaust the list of his published writings. Colonel 
Smith's whole collection and his own assistance were always 
readily placed at the disposal of all to whom they could be of any 
use — services which involved the consumption of much valuable 
time and not a little labour. On his retirement from active service 
Colonel Smith settled in Plymouth. He became, in 1824, a 
Fellow of the Royal Society; and in 1826 of the Linnsean 
Society. On the formation of the Devon and Cornwall Natural 
History Society he was elected President ; and after its amalgama- 
tion into the Plymouth Institution, he held the same office in the 
united Societies. Colonel Smith married in 1808 Miss Mary Anne 
Mauger, daughter of Joseph Mauger, Esq., of Guernsey, by whom 
he had issue Charles Hamilton Smith, who settled in New South 
Wales, and died there, leaving a son and several daughters ; Emma 
Hamilton Smith, of Crediton, unmarried ; Eliza Hamilton, married 
16th August, 1831, to Charles Cobley Whiteford, Esq., of Thorn- 
hill, Compton GifFord, Plymouth, and left issue ; and Emily 
Hamilton, married to Mr. Edmund King, c.e., whom she survived, 
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