SM I IJA X OVA LI FOLI A . Roxb.
Komnarika, . . BENG. Konda tamara, TEL.
Ku-ku, . . . . BUM. Kistapatamara,. . „ Wild sarsaparilla, ENG. Konda gurava tige, . „ Kari vilandi, . Maixtab. Kummara baddu, . „ Krin koddy nar, . Mu. Konda dantena, . . „ Sitapa chettu, . TEL.
A plant of Bengal and the Konkans, used for tyiug bundles.—Afason ; Spry's Suggestions, p. 68. SMITH. George Smith, an oriental scholar, who died in the autumn of 1876. Nothing could surpass the effect his paper, which WILE read on 3d December 1872, on The Assyrian Account of the Deluge, on English Assyriological inquiry. The scientific journals took it up as a triumph of philological research, and the Daily Telegraph offered to send him out to search for more material. Accordingly he left England in January 1873, and on 3d March he gained his first view of Nineveh. Full accounts of this and the succeeding expedition in 1874 and 1875 have been published. The importance of his inspection of the sites of the palaces of Sennacherib and Assur Banipal, and the survey of the ruins of Nineveh, cannot be overvalued. He was the first excavator who was able to read the records which he uncovered. He discovered a small fragment of a tablet containing the legend of the creation of the cattle and insects. This led him to search among the tablets in the British Museum, and in March 1875 he announced to the world the discovery of the Chaldrean legends of the Creation. The iemainder of the year was occupied in the copying and translation of these texts, and the result was given in his last and famous work, The Chaldman Account of Genesis. This was the first English work on Assyriology that had been translated into any foreign language.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry George Wakelyn Smith, Bart., G.C.B., born 1788, died 1860. He entered the British army in 1805, and served against Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, and Copenhagen. He wa.s present in the battles of the Peninsnlar war and at Waterloo, and in 1835 against the Kafir tribes. In 1839-40 be was appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces in India, and was present at the battles of Gwalior and Maharajpore, for which he was nominated a K.C.13. In the Panjab campaign of 1845-46, be was in command of a division at Moodkee, and of the reserve at the battle of Ferozpur, where he supported Sir John Littler in his charge upon the guns of the enemy. A few days later, the Sikh forces
crossed the river Sutlej, near Ludhiana, and took up their position at Aliwal, on which Lord Gough despatched Sir Harry Smith, with 7000 men and 24 guns, to relieve Ludhiana. On the 28th of January 1846, Sir Harry Smith led the main charge in the battle of Aliwal, :carrying that village at the point of the bayonet, and capturing all the enemy's guns, to the number of 67, a success which enabled him to come to the assistance of the commander-in-chief, and to join in the final and crowning victory of Sobraon (February 10), which crushed the last hopes of the Sikh leaders and their troops, and secured the possession of the Panjab to the British forces. He received the thanks of the House of. Lords, was presented with the freedom of the city of London, and the thanks of the Honourable East India Company ; was created baronet, and advanced to the dignity of a G.C.B. In September 1847 he was nominated to the governorship of the Cape of Good Hope. He conducted the operations of the Kafir war of 1851-52, until succeeded by Sir George Cathcart.
Sir Lionel Smith in 1821 commanded an expedition against the pirate tribes in the Persian Gulf.
Colonel Richard Baird Smith, an officer first of the Madras and subsequently of the Bengal Engineers. He was born in the year 1818, at Lasswade near Edinburgh, on the banks of the Esk ; in 1838 wentto India in the Madras Engineers, from which in 1839 he was transferred to the Bengal corps. From 1840 be was employed in the canal department under Sir Proby Cantley, served with Sir Harry Smith at Buddiwal and Aliwal (1845 ?), and in 1848-49 under Sir Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde) at Ratnnuggur, and afterwards at Sadullapur and Gujerat. In 1851 be went to Piedmont and Lombardy to study their system of irrigation. He was chief engineer at the siege of Dehli; died in the Madras roads in 1859. He established a Museum of Economic Geology for N.W. Provinces, Ill. As. Trans., 1831, x. p. 779. Author of Memoir on Indian Earth quakes, ibid., 1841 and 1843 ; and Edin. New Phil. JI., 1842, xxxiv. p. 107. Wrote an Account of the Delta of the Ganges, Cal. J1. Nat. Hist. iii.; and on the Irrigation of the N.W. Provinces, pamphlet. 8vo, 1849.