Sidney Smith was the son of Elliot Smith and Lavinia Barton.[2] His brother in law was Addison Emery Verrill.[3] Smith married Eugenia Pocahontas Barber in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 29, 1882.[1] The couple had no children, and Eugenia died on March 14, 1916.[1] Smith suffered from hereditary glaucoma, rendering him partially sighted from 1906, and completely blind some years before his death.[1] He died on May 6, 1926, of throat cancer.[1]
Education and careeredit
In his youth, Sidney Irving Smith became expert on the fauna around his home town, and an expert at making collections, particularly of insects.[1] He studied at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, and received his Ph.B. in 1867.[3] Yale University conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.A. in 1887. He stayed on at Yale, initially as an assistant, but from 1875 as the first professor of comparative anatomy, a post he retained until his retirement in 1906.[1] Thereafter, Smith remained at Yale as professor emeritus.[1]
Sidney Irving Smith was honoured in the specific epithets of a number of species. They include Lembos smithi Holmes, 1905, Metapenaeopsis smithi (Schmitt, 1924), Oxyurostylis smithiCalman, 1912, Pandarus smithiRathbun, 1886 and Siphonoecetes smithianus Rathbun, 1908.[4]
^Gilberto Rodríguez (1993). "From Oviedo to Rathbun: the development of brachyuran crab taxonomy in the Neotropics (1535–1937)". In Frank Truesdale (ed.). History of Carcinology. Crustacean Issues 8. Rotterdam: Balkema. pp. 41–73. ISBN 978-90-5410-137-6.