Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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At Hobart Prof. Smith found himself handicapped by a lack of instru- ments, all he could find here being a pile of dust-covered, ru3ty ones stowed away in a room in Geneva Hall, He immediately began working to get things in order and to erect a good observatory. In this work he was aided most efficiently by Samuel G. Cornell, Esq,, of Buffalo, Mrs. Dean Rich- mond of Batavia and Bishop Coxe, with, the result that we have at present a substantial observatory, a good physical laboratory and necessary apparatus for a good collegiate course in Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. Abroad Prof. Smith is best known by his microscopical studies of the Dialomaceas and the classification and arrangement of this group of Crypto- gramic algae published at Chicago in 1872. His classification has been adopted by Count Castricane (the naturalist of the Challenger Expedition) i« the large quarto volume issued by the British government; also by the well known scientist. Dr. Van Beurck of Belgium, in his work, Synopsis Des Diaiomes De Belgique, and by other microscopical publications. At this time Prof. Smith’s collection of diatoms was the largest in this country as also was his library of microscopical literature. Among the various societies of which Prof. Smith is a member may be mentioned the Connecticut Academy of Sciences; Lyceum of Natural History, New York (now the N. Y. Academy of Sciences); Boston Society of Natural History; Microscopical Society of Edinburgh; Queckett Micro- scopical Club of London; Belgian Microscopical Society ; Honora 'Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, and several smaller societies. His degree of LL.D. was received from Trinity College in 1871. For thirty-one years Prof. Smith has been connected with this institu- tion and he has at all. times proved himself to be one of its main stay's. Especially was this the case in the period during the seventies when affairs in the college were at such a low ebb. The college owes him a debt of gratitude which it can never repay. And we are but expressing the thought of both Alumni and undergraduates when we say, that for many years more we hope to see Hamilton Lanphere Smith as “ Senior Professor at Hobart College.” 6

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Board of Editors Literary Board JULIUS CHRISTIAN SOSNOWSKI, K A, Editor-in-Chief. ALBERT STETTENBENZ, 0 A X FREDERICK DANIEL GRAVES, 0 A X AUSTIN STOWE HUMPHREY GORDON ARGYLE TELLER Business Board GORDON ARGYLE TELLER, Business Manager HARRY GUNNELL, 2 X ALBERT STETTENBENZ, 0 A X 7