SMITH, John Augustine, physician, born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, 29 August, 1782; died in New York city, 9 February, 1865. He was graduated at William and Mary in 1800, studied medicine, and settled as a physician in New York city in 1809, becoming lecturer on anatomy at the College of physicians and surgeons, and editor of the "Medical and Physiological Journal." He was president of William and Mary college from 1814 till 1826, when he resigned, resumed practice in New York city, and was president of the College of physicians and surgeons in 1831-'43. He published numerous addresses, lectures, and essays, including an "Introductory Discourse before the New Medical College, Crosby Street, New York City" (New York, 1837): " Functions of the Nervous System" (1840) ; "Mutations of the Earth" (1846) ; "Monograph upon the Moral Sense" (1847) ; and "Moral and Physical Science" (1853).