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Andrew Smith
Sir Andrew Smith was a British surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.
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science · British surgeon and zoologist (1797–1872) · physician · zoologist · ornithologist · naturalist · surgeon · explorer · also Andrew Smith, Andrew Smith (zoologist), Smith, Sir Andrew Smith
Born 3 December 1797 · Died 11 August 1872 · Q507606
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2026· 2 entries
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2020· 1 entry
Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 37,013 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers” in SoftwareX — cited 25,609 times.
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2009· 1 entry
“Debugging the Link Between Social Theory and Social Insects”
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1997· 1 entry
Published “Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test” in BMJ — cited 48,885 times.
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1956· 1 entry
Published “Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances” in Analytical Chemistry — cited 42,392 times.
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1872· 1 entry
Died 1872-08-11.
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1858· 1 entry
When he was created Knight Commander of the Bath
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1845· 1 entry
Became assistant to Sir James McGrigor, the director-general of the army medical department, becoming Director-General of the Army Medical Services in 1853 when Sir James retired
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1844· 1 entry
Married his housekeeper Ellen Henderson and converted to her Roman Catholic faith
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1836· 1 entry
No detailed account of his travels was ever published
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1833· 2 entries
The reports of traders from North of the Orange River led to an 18-month-long expedition by Andrew to Basutoland, Kuruman, the headquarters of Mzilikazi and as far north as the Magaliesberg, Charles Davidson Bell going a
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The South African Institution nominated Smith as coordinator of the Committee of Management for the "Expedition into Central Africa
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1830· 1 entry
And subsequently On the origin and history of the Bushmen in 1831
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1828· 1 entry
Smith was sent to Namaqualand by Lieutenant-Governor of the Eastern District of the Cape of Good Hope Richard Bourke to report on the Bushmen there
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1825· 1 entry
The Governor of the Cape Colony, Lord Charles Somerset, nominated Smith as the first Superintendent of the South African Museum of Natural History in Cape Town
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1824· 1 entry
When he made copious notes on the customs of the Xhosa tribes
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1822· 1 entry
And started the first free dispensary for indigent patients in South Africa
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1820· 1 entry
Was ordered to the Cape Colony and was sent to Grahamstown to supervise the medical care of European soldiers and soldiers of the Cape Corps
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1819· 1 entry
Having joined the Army Medical Services in 1816
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1797· 1 entry
Born 1797-12-03.
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