John Donnell Smith

Captain John Donnell Smith (June 5, 1829 – December 2, 1928)[1] of Baltimore, Maryland was an American biologist and taxonomist.

He issued an exsiccata-like series distributing numbered specimen sets often collected by Hans von Türckheim under the title Ex plantis Guatemalensibus, quas edidit John Donnell Smith.

[3][4] He was a Captain in the Confederate Army, and Commander of Battery A, 10th Battalion (Huger's Battalion) of Virginia Artillery (known as the Bedford Light Artillery), serving in every campaign and battle of the Army of Northern Virginia.

[6] In January 1906, he presented his herbarium consisting of more than 100,000 mounted specimens and his botanical library of over 1600 bound volumes to the Smithsonian Institution.

The books pertain mostly to the systematic botany of Mexico and Central America and remain in Baltimore.