SMITH, Jerome van Crowninshield, physician, born in Conway, New Hampshire, 20 July, 1800; died in New York city, 21 August, 1879. He was graduated at the medical department of Brown in 1818, and at Berkshire medical school in 1825, becoming its first professor of anatomy and physiology. He settled in Boston in 1825, edited the " Weekly News-Letter" for two years, was port physician in 1826-'49, and mayor of Boston in 1854. He subsequently occupied the chair of anatomy and physiology, and afterward of anatomy alone, in New York medical college. He established in 1823, and edited for many years, the "Boston Medical Intelligencer," conducted the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal" in 1828-'56, and the "Medical World" in 1857-'9. His publications include " The Class-Book of Anatomy" (Boston, 1830) ; "Life of Andrew Jackson" (1832); " Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts" (1888) ; "Pilgrimage to Palestine" (1851); "Pilgrimage to Egypt" (1852) ; "Turkey and the Turks" (1854); and a " Prize Essay on the Physical Indications of Longevity" (New York, 1869). He also edited " Scientific Tracts" (6 vols., 1833-'4) and "The American Medical Almanac " (3 vols., 1839-'41).