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SMITH, Sidney Irving, biologist, born in Norway, Maine, 18 February, 1843. He was graduated at the Sheffield scientific school of Yale in 1867, and was assistant in zoology from that time till 1876, when he was chosen professor of comparative anatomy. He had charge of the deep-water dredging that was carried on in Lake Superior by the United States lake survey in 1871, and by the United States coast survey in the region of St. George's banks in 1872. Professor Smith has also been associated in the biological work of the United States fish commission on the New England coast since 1871. He is a member of various scientific societies, and in 1884 was elected to the National academy of sciences. His papers have been published in the "Reports of the United States Fish Commission," " Reports of Progress of the Geological Survey of Canada," and other government reports, and he has also contributed memoirs on his specialties to the transactions of scientific societies of which he is a member, and to technical journals.
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