Expeditions
Smith studied molluscs brought back by various expeditions like those to Antarctic of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror (1839-1943), which had lain by untouched, were dealt with by him in 1875. The Arctic specimens, collected on the polar voyage of the HMS Alert and HMS Discovery (1875-6), were described in 1878. The results of the Transit of Venus Expedition (1874-5) to Kerguelen Islands and Rodrigues were set forth in the special volume (vol. clxviii) of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1879. The accounts of shells procured during the voyages of the Alert to the Straits of Magellan and the Indo-Pacific (1878-82) were published in 1881 and 1884.
The reports on the bivalves and Heteropoda brought home by the HMS Challenger Expedition (1873-6) were the most noteworthy of this series, and appeared in 1885 and 1888 respectively.
Mention must also be made of his reports on the collections of molluscs of the SS Southern Cross during Southern Cross Expedition published 1902, from Sokotra 1903, from the Maldives and Laccadives 1902 and 1903, from the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-4 in 1907, and finally the Terra Nova Expedition in the Antarctic of 1910 in published in 1915.
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