Herbert Huntington Smith
Herbert Huntington Smith ( born January 21, 1851 in Manlius (New York), † March 22, 1919 ) was an American naturalist.
Smith was the son of Charles Smith and Julia Maria (nee Huntington ). He studied at Cornell University from 1868 to 1872. He was with Amelia Woolworth ( "Daisy" ) Smith married since October 5, 1880.
Smith has become known primarily for his voyages of discovery and gathering of about 50,000 copies. He was in Brazil in 1871, 1873-1877, and from 1881 until 1886. From 1890 to 1895 he was commissioned by the West Indies Commission of Ray Society in the Caribbean. In 1889 he attended on behalf of the Biologia Centralized Americana Mexico and Colombia from 1898 to 1901. From 1896 to 1898 he was curator at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and then until his death at the Natural History Museum in Alabama.
According to Smith, the Mexican Redknee Tarantula ( Brachypelma smithi and Eurypelma smithi ) was named.
Bibliography
- Brazil, the Amazons and the coast ( S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Londres, 1880),
- De Rio de Janeiro á Cuyabá ( 1886 em português )
- His Majesty's sloop Diamond Rock ( Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston et New York, 1904).
- Smith. HH 1912. Directions for collecting agricultural shells.