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learned the sub-divisions of our Oolitic series, and apprehended 
the meaning of those terms which we derive from him as our 
master, which have long become engrafted into the conventional 
language of English Geologists, and also adopted by those of the 
Continent.” 
“Tf in the pride of our present strength we were disposed to 
forget our origin, our very speech would bewray us; for we use the 
language which he taught us in the infancy of our science. If we, 
-by our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments and slowly 
raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of Nature, it was 
he who gave the plan, and laid the foundations and erected a 
portion of the solid walls by the unassisted labour of his hands.” 
The British Association, founded at York in 1831, held its 
second meeting at Oxford, and on this occasion the Wollaston 
‘Gold Medal awarded the year previously by Sedgwick, was handed 
ito William Smith by Dr. Buckland: and he was further gratified 
by the announcement that in response to the united expression of 
English Geologists, the Government of His Majesty King 
William the Fourth had granted Mr. Smith a pension of £700 
-a year. 
It was one of his greatest pleasures to attend the annual 
gatherings of the British Association, where he met so many 
geological friends who were glad to hail him by the title (conferred 
upon him by Sedgwick) that of the ‘“‘ Father of English Geology.” 
In 1835 he attended the Meeting of the Association in Dublin, 
-and while there the Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, 
Dublin, conferred upon William Smith the degree of LL.D. 
In 1839, while on his way to the British Association at 
Birmingham, he rested at the house of his friend, Mr. George 
Baker, of Northampton. Here he took a cold which brought on 
‘other and more dangerous symptoms, and on 28th August he 
breathed his last at the age of 70 years. 
It would be impossible to give in this brief sketch any adequate 
adea of the value and importance of William Smith’s Geological 
