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LEFT SMITH 462 SMITH SMITH, HARLAN INGERSOLL, an American scientist, born at East Sagi- naw, Mich., 1872. He was educated in the public schools and at the University of Michigan. In 1891 he was an assistant at the Peabody Museum, Harvard Uni- versity. From 1891 to 1893 he was in charge of the anthropological collections in the Museum of the University of Mich- igan. He became in 1895 connected with the American Museum of Natural His- tory, with which institution he served chiefly in connection with its department of archaeology, becoming honorary cura- tor of archaeology in 1912. He was ar- chaeologist of the Jesup Northern Pacific Expedition and of the Geological Survey of Canada. His archaeological explora- tions, undertaken since 1897, were de- voted chiefly to British Columbia, and to other parts of Canada. He was a mem- ber of several domestic and foreign anthropological societies and wrote: "Ar- chaeology of Lytton" (1899) ; "Archae- ology of the Thompson River Religion" (1900) ; "Cairns of British Columbia and Washington" (1901) ; "Shell Heaps of the Lower Fraser River, British Colum- bia" (1903); "Archaeology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound" (1907) ; "Archaeology of the Yakima Valley, Wash- ington" (1910) ; "The Prehistoric Eth- nology of a Kentucky Site" (1910). SMITH, HENRY LOUIS, an Ameri- can educator, born at Greensboro, N. C, in 1859. He was educated at Davidson College and the University of Virginia. From 1887 to 1901 he was professor of physics, and from 1901 to 1912 president of Davidson College. In 1912 he became president of Washington and Lee Uni- versity. He was a lecturer on educa- tional and scientific topics and a member of several educational and other societies. SMITH, HOKE, a United States Sen- ator from Georgia, born at Newton, N. C, in 1855. He was privately educated and removed with his parents to Georgia in 1872. In the following year he was ad- mitted to the bar, and practiced at At- lanta until 1909, except while serving as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Cleveland, from 1893 to 1896. He was governor of Georgia from 1907 to 1909, and was re-elected for the term 1911 to 1913. He resigned as governor to enter the United States Senate, having been elected to fill the unexpired term of Alexander S. Clay, deceased. He was reelected for the term of 1915 to 1921, but was defeated bv Thomas E. Watson in 1920. SMITH, HERBERT KNOX, an Ameri- can lawyer, born at Chester, Mass., in 1869. He was educated at Yale Univer- sity. He practiced law at Hartford, Conn., from 1895 to 1903 and again be- ginning with 1912. From 1900 to 1902 he was a member of the Hartford Com- mon Council; from 1903 to 1905 a mem- ber of the Connecticut House of Repr»* HERBERT KNOX SMITH sentatives; from 1903 to 1907 deputy commissioner of corporations, Department of Commerce and Labor; and from 1907 to 1912 commissioner of corporations. In 1912 he was progressive candidate for governor of Connecticut. During the World War he served as a major in the Q. M. C. SMITH, JAMES and HORACE, au- thors of the "Rejected Addresses" and other excellent humorous compositions; born in London, James, Feb. 10, 1775; Horace, Dec. 31, 1779. The managers of the new Drury Lane Theater, com- pleted in 1812 to replace the burned one, offered a prize for the most suitable open- ing address; the result was a deluge of such ludicrous rubbish that all had to be rejected, and Byron was commissioned to write one. The brothers Smith conceived the idea of burlesquing the style of lead- ing poets and other men of letters and