21 January 1851 – ???
Born: Manlius, New York.
Died:
Occupation: Naturalist. Amateur Conchologist. Staff member Carnegie Museum. Curator, State Museum, University of Alabama.
Education: B.S. Cornell University, 1872.
Societies / Service:
Travels: Brazil, West Indies, Colombia, Mexico, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Collection Deposition: University of Alabama (now at the Florida Museum of Natural History).
Research Interests: Freshwater mollusks.
Remarks: Retired to Alabama, 1903.
Data from: Abbott, R.T., and M.E. Young (eds.). 1973. American Malacologists: A national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born between 1618 and 1900. American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia. Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia. 494 pp.
Other References: Holland, W.J. 1919. Herbert Huntington Smith. Science 49(1273):481-483.
Clapp, G.H. 1920. Herbert Huntington Smith. Nautilus 33(4):136-141 + 1 plate.
Partial Bibliography
Smith, H.H. 1909. The Showalter Collection. Nautilus 22(11):117-118.