Yesterday week, too late for our last issue, died, at
the age of fifty-six, Professor H. J. S. Smith, Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, and the greatest authority living on the theory of numbers. He was almost as distinguished as a linguist as he was as a mathematician, and, perhaps, better known for the versatility of his talents, and especially for his wit, than any man at either University. We have spoken fully of him elsewhere, but may add here that the procession near a quarter of a mile long which followed his body to the grave on Tuesday, bore singular testimony to the universal regard and affection which a man who had nevertheless the power to make himself so formidable, had inspired. Men of all schools alike will long feel the blank which Henry Smith's death has left, both at Oxford and in London.
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