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Herbert Smith</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;">CBE</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1872-05-26</span>)</span>26 May 1872<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Edgbaston" title="Edgbaston">Edgbaston</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">20 April 1953<span style="display:none">(1953-04-20)</span> (aged 80)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data">Winchester College</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_College,_Oxford" title="New College, Oxford">New College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Gemstones (1912)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category">Mineralogy, gemmology</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data">British Museum (Natural History), London</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herbert_Smith_refractometer.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Herbert_Smith_refractometer.gif/220px-Herbert_Smith_refractometer.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Herbert_Smith_refractometer.gif/330px-Herbert_Smith_refractometer.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Herbert_Smith_refractometer.gif 2x" data-file-width="343" data-file-height="176" /></a><figcaption>Herbert Smith's <a href="/wiki/Refractometer" title="Refractometer">refractometer</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>George Frederick Herbert Smith</b> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">CBE</a> (26 May 1872 – 20 April 1953), known as <b>Herbert Smith</b>, was a British <a href="/wiki/Mineralogist" class="mw-redirect" title="Mineralogist">mineralogist</a> who worked for the <a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London" title="Natural History Museum, London">British Museum (Natural History)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mindat_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindat-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He discovered the mineral <a href="/wiki/Paratacamite" title="Paratacamite">paratacamite</a> in 1906, and developed a jeweller's refractometer for the rapid identification of gems.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The minerals <a href="/wiki/Smithite" title="Smithite">smithite</a> and <a href="/wiki/Herbertsmithite" title="Herbertsmithite">herbertsmithite</a> are named after him,<sup id="cite_ref-mindat_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mindat-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as is <a href="/wiki/Herbert%27s_rock-wallaby" title="Herbert's rock-wallaby">Herbert's rock-wallaby</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Smith_(mineralogist)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smith was born in 1872, went to school at <a href="/wiki/Winchester_College" title="Winchester College">Winchester College</a> and then to <a href="/wiki/New_College,_Oxford" title="New College, Oxford">New College, Oxford</a>. In Oxford, he studied mathematics from 1891 to 1895, gaining first class marks, and then graduated in physics in 1896.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith was appointed as an assistant in the British Museum (Natural History) in December 1896.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked in the mineralogy department of the museum until 1921, when he became assistant secretary of the museum, succeeding Charles E. Fagan.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his mineralogical career, Smith worked on topics including the determination of mineral structures and compositions. He wrote papers on the structure of the gold telluride mineral <a href="/wiki/Calaverite" title="Calaverite">calaverite</a> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1123817410">.mw-parser-output .template-chem2-su{display:inline-block;font-size:80%;line-height:1;vertical-align:-0.35em}.mw-parser-output .template-chem2-su>span{display:block;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output sub.template-chem2-sub{font-size:80%;vertical-align:-0.35em}.mw-parser-output sup.template-chem2-sup{font-size:80%;vertical-align:0.65em}</style><span class="chemf nowrap">AuTe<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub>)</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he described the new copper-zinc oxychloride mineral <a href="/wiki/Paratacamite" title="Paratacamite">paratacamite</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith also developed new instruments for the practical measurement of the crystallographic and optical features of minerals and gems (goniometers and a refractometer),<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and wrote a text book on gemstones and gemmology that was first published in 1912,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and went through many editions, with the thirteenth edition published in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his role as secretary of the museum, he oversaw the expansion of the museum and the creation of new buildings for the department of entomology; and he was in charge of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Natural History museum in 1931. He also started the practice of selling postcards of museum items, and established a sports club for the staff of the museum.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as secretary of the museum until 1935,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before returning to the mineralogical department for two years before retirement.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He retired in 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1927, in conjunction with the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Civil_and_Public_Servants" title="Society of Civil and Public Servants">Society of Civil Servants</a>, Smith arranged for a special train to take civil servants to <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Yorkshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Richmond, Yorkshire">Richmond, Yorkshire</a>, to view the <a href="/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_29,_1927" title="Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927">solar eclipse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith provided pieces of smoked glass for viewing, and wrote a guide to the eclipse. Richmond was in the line of totality, and many thousands of visitors attended on fleets of special excursion trains that day, including <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a>, who described the events in her diary and in a 1928 essay <i>The Sun and the Fish</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At totality, the Sun was obscured by clouds.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_service">Professional service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Smith_(mineralogist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Professional service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1918, Smith helped to establish the Society of Civil Servants 'to cover the middle and upper grades of the service'.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was honorary secretary of this society from 1918 to 1925, vice-president from 1925 to 1928, and president for the period 1928 to 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith played a major role in the professional work of gemmologists in the United Kingdom. He set and marked the first diploma in gemmology (from 1912),<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was later an examiner for the <a href="/wiki/Gemmological_Association_of_Great_Britain" title="Gemmological Association of Great Britain">Gemmological Association of Great Britain</a> (Gem-A) from 1931 to 1951. He was elected president of the association from 1942 to 1953, and was awarded the title of honorary fellow in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith served on the council of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a> from 1930 to 1953, and worked for many years for the society for the promotion of nature reserves, which eventually became the UK government agency, <a href="/wiki/Nature_Conservancy_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nature Conservancy (UK)">Nature Conservancy</a> in 1948 and the <a href="/wiki/Countryside_Commission" title="Countryside Commission">National Parks Commission</a> in 1949.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognition">Recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Smith_(mineralogist)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1905, mineralogist R H Solly named a silver arsenic sulphide mineral (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">AgAsS<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub></span>) <a href="/wiki/Smithite" title="Smithite">smithite</a> after Smith. This mineral was from the <a href="/wiki/Lengenbach_Quarry" title="Lengenbach Quarry">Lengenbach Quarry</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Binn" title="Binn">Binn</a> valley, Switzerland. At that time, Smith was working on other minerals from the same location.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2004, a copper zinc oxychloride mineral (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">ZnCu<sub class="template-chem2-sub">3</sub>(OH)<sub class="template-chem2-sub">6</sub>Cl<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub></span>) <a href="/wiki/Herbertsmithite" title="Herbertsmithite">herbertsmithite</a> was named after Smith, since it was found to share chemical and structural features with paratacamite, which Smith had discovered in 1906.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1926, <a href="/wiki/Herbert%27s_rock-wallaby" title="Herbert's rock-wallaby">Herbert's rock-wallaby</a>, <i>Petrogale herberti</i> was named in Smith's honour, to reflect the assistance he had provided to <a href="/wiki/Hubert_Wilkins" title="Hubert Wilkins">Hubert Wilkins</a>, on whose expedition the wallaby had been discovered.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1949, Smith was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">CBE</a> for 'services to the flora and fauna of the British Isles'.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Smith_(mineralogist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smith married Rosalie Ellerton (d. 1936), and they had a daughter. Smith died on 20 April 1953, after a short illness.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Smith_(mineralogist)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-mindat-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mindat_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mindat_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mindat.org/min-26600.html">"Herbertsmithite: Mineral information, data and localities"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Herbertsmithite%3A+Mineral+information%2C+data+and+localities.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mindat.org%2Fmin-26600.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHerbert+Smith+%28mineralogist%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHurlbut_Jr.1984" class="citation journal cs1">Hurlbut Jr., C.S. (1984). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM69/AM69_391.pdf">"The jewelers refractometer as a mineralogical tool"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>American Mineralogist</i>. <b>69</b>: 391–398.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Mineralogist&rft.atitle=The+jewelers+refractometer+as+a+mineralogical+tool&rft.volume=69&rft.pages=391-398&rft.date=1984&rft.aulast=Hurlbut+Jr.&rft.aufirst=C.S.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.minsocam.org%2Fammin%2FAM69%2FAM69_391.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHerbert+Smith+%28mineralogist%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto2-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto2_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto2_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThomas1926" class="citation journal cs1">Thomas, Oldfield (1926). 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Campbell (25 June 1953). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/1711093a0">"Dr. G. F. Herbert Smith, C.B.E."</a> <i>Nature</i>. <b>171</b> (4364): 1093–1094. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1953Natur.171.1093S">1953Natur.171.1093S</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1038%2F1711093a0">10.1038/1711093a0</a> – via www.nature.com.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Nature&rft.atitle=Dr.+G.+F.+Herbert+Smith%2C+C.B.E.&rft.volume=171&rft.issue=4364&rft.pages=1093-1094&rft.date=1953-06-25&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1038%2F1711093a0&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1953Natur.171.1093S&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=W.+Campbell&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2F1711093a0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHerbert+Smith+%28mineralogist%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmithPrior1902" class="citation journal cs1">Smith, G. F. Herbert; Prior, G. T. (26 May 1902). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mineralogical-magazine-and-journal-of-the-mineralogical-society/article/abs/on-the-remarkable-problem-presented-by-the-crystalline-development-of-calaverite/4308064072194D2819CB04DACA42BEF8">"On the remarkable problem presented by the crystalline development of Calaverite"</a>. <i>Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society</i>. <b>13</b> (60): 122–150. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1902MinM...13..122S">1902MinM...13..122S</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1180%2Fminmag.1902.13.60.03">10.1180/minmag.1902.13.60.03</a> – via Cambridge University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Mineralogical+Magazine+and+Journal+of+the+Mineralogical+Society&rft.atitle=On+the+remarkable+problem+presented+by+the+crystalline+development+of+Calaverite&rft.volume=13&rft.issue=60&rft.pages=122-150&rft.date=1902-05-26&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1180%2Fminmag.1902.13.60.03&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1902MinM...13..122S&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=G.+F.+Herbert&rft.au=Prior%2C+G.+T.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fjournals%2Fmineralogical-magazine-and-journal-of-the-mineralogical-society%2Farticle%2Fabs%2Fon-the-remarkable-problem-presented-by-the-crystalline-development-of-calaverite%2F4308064072194D2819CB04DACA42BEF8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHerbert+Smith+%28mineralogist%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmithPrior1906" class="citation journal cs1">Smith, G.F.H.; Prior, G.T. (1906). "Paratacamite, a new oxychloride of copper". <i>Mineralogical Magazine</i>. <b>14</b> (65): 170–177. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1906MinM...14..170S">1906MinM...14..170S</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1180%2Fminmag.1906.014.65.09">10.1180/minmag.1906.014.65.09</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Mineralogical+Magazine&rft.atitle=Paratacamite%2C+a+new+oxychloride+of+copper&rft.volume=14&rft.issue=65&rft.pages=170-177&rft.date=1906&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1180%2Fminmag.1906.014.65.09&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1906MinM...14..170S&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=G.F.H.&rft.au=Prior%2C+G.T.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHerbert+Smith+%28mineralogist%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith1912" class="citation book cs1">Smith, G. 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