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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Erminnie Adele
| name = Smith
| honorific_prefix = Mrs
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Smith,_Erminnie_Adele.jpg
| birth_date = 1836
| death_date = 1886
| address = 203 Pacific Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey
| occupation = geologist<br />anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1884.11.11
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = paper only
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = New York Academy of Sciences<br />Aesthetic Society of Jersey City
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
1884.10.28 proposed
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Erminnie A. Smith, née Erminnie Adele Platt (1836–1886) was a geologist and an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology.[1] She has been called the "first woman field enthnographer"[2] and she was elected the first female member of the New York Academy of Sciences on November 5, 1877.[3] <br />Erminnie Smith published works on the Iroquois people, she was active in collecting their legends and employed John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt to assist in this work.[4] <br />Erminnie Adele Platt was born in 1836, graduating in 1853 from the Troy Seminary in Troy, New York. She married Simeon H. Smith. The Aesthetic Society of Jersey City was founded by her in 1876.[5] <br />She died in May 1886.[6] <br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Myths of the Iroquois, 1883.<br />
=== House Publications ===
‘The Customs and the Language of the Iroquois’, JAI 14 (1885): 244-53
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Erminnie Adele
| name = Smith
| honorific_prefix = Mrs
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Smith,_Erminnie_Adele.jpg
| birth_date = 1836
| death_date = 1886
| address = 203 Pacific Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey
| occupation = geologist<br />anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1884.11.11
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = paper only
| left =
| clubs =
| societies = New York Academy of Sciences<br />Aesthetic Society of Jersey City
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
1884.10.28 proposed
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Erminnie A. Smith, née Erminnie Adele Platt (1836–1886) was a geologist and an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology.[1] She has been called the "first woman field enthnographer"[2] and she was elected the first female member of the New York Academy of Sciences on November 5, 1877.[3] <br />Erminnie Smith published works on the Iroquois people, she was active in collecting their legends and employed John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt to assist in this work.[4] <br />Erminnie Adele Platt was born in 1836, graduating in 1853 from the Troy Seminary in Troy, New York. She married Simeon H. Smith. The Aesthetic Society of Jersey City was founded by her in 1876.[5] <br />She died in May 1886.[6] <br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Myths of the Iroquois, 1883.<br />
=== House Publications ===
‘The Customs and the Language of the Iroquois’, JAI 14 (1885): 244-53
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
