Per communications with David Hillis, Hobart M. Smith passed away
yesterday, March 4, 2013.  He was 100 years old.
Hobart was the author of over 1600 publications in herpetology
including various large monographs and classic textbooks, and is
considered one of the giants in herpetology.

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School of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri at Kansas City

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