Hugh McCormick Smith

Hugh McCormick Smith
Hugh McCormick Smith
Born	(1865-11-21)November 21, 1865 Washington, D.C.
Died	September 28, 1941(1941-09-28) (aged 75) Washington, D.C.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Georgetown University
Scientific career
Fields	Ichthyology Zoology
Institutions	Bureau of Fisheries National Geographic Society United States Fish and Wildlife Service Smithsonian Institution

Hugh McCormick Smith, also H. M. Smith (November 21, 1865 – September 28, 1941) was an American ichthyologist and administrator in the Bureau of Fisheries.

Biography

He was born in Washington, D.C. In 1888, he received a Doctor of Medicine from Georgetown University; then, in 1908, a Doctor of Law from Dickinson. He began working for the U. S. Fish Commission in 1886 as an assistant. He directed the scientific research centre there from 1897 to 1903. From 1901 to 1902, he directed the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. At the same time, he was on the faculty of Georgetown, teaching medicine from 1888 to 1902 and histology from 1895 to 1902.

From 1907—1910 he led the Philippine Expedition aboard the USS Albatross. He was an associate editor of the National Geographic Society from 1909 to 1919. He was the author of many articles and publications, both popular and scientific, about fish. He was deputy commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (1903—1913) and then commissioner (1913—1922). After he was pressured to resign that position, he moved to Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI and was the first director general of Department of Fisheries, in the reign of the King Rama VII (1926).

He moved back to the United States in 1933 and was curator of zoology at the Smithsonian Institution until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1941.

External links

• Works by Hugh McCormick Smith at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Hugh McCormick Smith at the Internet Archive
• Biographical Sketch: Hugh M. Smith