Charles H. Smith (historian of science)

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Charles H. Smith (born 30 September 1950) is a professor and science librarian at Western Kentucky University (WKU). He was born at Winsted, Connecticut USA. He is best known for his work as a historian of science on Alfred Russel Wallace. He created and maintains the website The Alfred Russel Wallace Page hosted by WKU and devoted to Wallace scholarship, which includes a comprehensive bibliography of Wallace's publications and interviews, texts of many of Wallace's works, and writings on Wallace by Smith and others. Smith has also produced a number of conventional writings on Wallace including the anthology Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings published in 1991 and his three-volume collection Alfred Russel Wallace: Writings on Evolution, 1843-1912 published in 2004, and various journal articles. Smith was originally trained as a biogeographer and has technical publications in that field, including the bibliographic compilation Biodiversity Studies: A Bibliographic Review published in 2000, and additionally several websites. He has also created and maintains three well known sites on music education hosted by WKU: The 111 Greatest Acts of the Anglo-American Folk Music Tradition, The Classical Music Navigator, and Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems.