John Donnell Smith

American biologist and taxonomist (1829-1928).

Captain John Donnell Smith (June 5, 1829 – December 2, 1928) of Baltimore, Maryland was an American biologist and taxonomist. He was also an officer in the Confederate army. He was a graduate of Yale in 1847, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He was a botanical researcher; a trustee of Peabody Institute in Baltimore (1888–1915). He issued an exsiccata-like series distributing numbered specimen sets often collected by Hans von Türckheim under the title Ex plantis Guatemalensibus, quas edidit John Donnell Smith. He was a Captain in the Confederate Army, and Commander of Battery A, 10th B