Worthington George Smith

Worthington George Smith FLS
Born	1835
Died	1917
Residence	12 North Grove West, Mildmay Park, N. [1865, 1867, 1869, 1872] 15 Mildmay Grove, N. [1875, 1878, 1879] 125 Grosvenor Road, Highbury, N. [1881] 38 Kyverdale Road, N. [1883, 1885] West Street, Dunstable [1888] 121 High Street, Dunstable [1894, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1913]
Occupation	artist academic
Society Membership membership ASL, AI ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1867.12.17 resigned, but if this resignation applies to this W.G. Smith, he remained 1917 deceased elected_AI 1865 elected_ASL 1865.04.04 societies Linnean Society of London Society of Antiquaries Cambrian Archaeological Association British Mycological Society

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Office Notes

AI Council 1885 Member

House Notes

1867.12.17 resigns - it is W.G. - but this man remains a fellow. Resignation possibly refers to William Smith of Manchester who is last listed in the February 1866 list
obit, Man Dec. 1917, 129

Notes From Elsewhere

Worthington George Smith (23 March 1835 – 27 October 1917) was an English cartoonist and illustrator, archaeologist, plant pathologist, and mycologist.

Smith became the local county secretary for the Society of Antiquaries in 1897

Architectural illustrator
Born London; died Dunstable.
Apprenticed as an architect but gave this up to become illustrator. Worked for Natural History Museum and combined botanical and archaeological searches. Important publications in botany and archaeology-the latter with particular reference to the Lower Palaeolithic

Publications

External Publications

Mushrooms and Toadstools: How to distinguish easily the differences between the Edible and Poisonous Fungi (David Brogue, 1879). Diseases of field and garden crops. (Macmillan, 1884) Outlines of British fungology: Supplement. (Reeve, 1891) Man, the primeval savage; his haunts and relics from the hilltops of Bedfordshire to Blackwall. (E. Stanford, 1894) Guide to Sowerby's models of British fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History). (British Museum,1898) Dunstable: The downs and the district: A handbook for visitors. (The Homeland Association,1904)

House Publications

On a Palaeolithic floor at North east London JAI xiii 357-384
Exhibition of palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Axe JAI IX 369
Palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Brent JAI ix 316-320
On Palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Lea JAI viii 275-279
Exhibition of Palaeolithic implements from the valley of the Thams JAI iv 369

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some of his collections are held at the British Museum, Luton Museum, and the Museum of London.
PRM field collector