John Bernhardt Smith

"[1] In 1889 he succeeded George D. Hulst and served as professor of entomology at Rutgers College and as an entomologist at the experimental station.

Smith even wrote to Dyar "If you object that I am allowing personal consideration to retard scientific knowledge I will plead guilty."

After a fire in Rutgers in 1903 Dyar wrote a letter that placing specimens in the Washington collection would be a safeguard.

After Smith began to work in mosquitoes in 1901, there appeared to be a thaw in relations with Dyar helping in some identifications.

When Dyar sought some larval specimens, Smith again refused to loan them and it again led to a downward spiral in their relations.

[4] Later workers have noted that Smith was usually wrong in the claims he made in nomenclatural debates with Dyar and Grote.