Geoffrey Watkins Smith, M.C., M.A. (OxoN.) was born 9 Dec. 1881 at Ivy Bank, Beckenham, Kent and was killed on the Somme, in July, 1916, at the early age of 34. He was Fellow and Tutor of New College and Lecturer in the Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford. His published work covers a period of only eleven years but it is remarkable in quantity and quality alike and shows forth its author as one who would have achieved the foremost rank among English biologists.