S3S Dr. Kidcfs recent Work on Geologij. 



fidence that the fear of the exposure I could make, and the con- 

 sequent shame and disgrace tliat must attach to the actors here- 

 in, would restrain them, that I liad determined to delay sub- 

 mitting the present statements to the public, and should have con- 

 tinued to do so, but for a publication that has lately issued from 

 the University press at Oxford, on Geology, dedicated to the 

 worthy Geognost, to whom I have been principally alluding 

 above; and wherein the author Dr. Kidd*, has at pages 21 to 27, 

 given a brief account of the slnita of Etigland, essentially the 

 same as Mr. Smith has been in the habit of explaining and 

 i.howing them for twenty years ])ast, and as I published ihem 

 four years ago in the Derby Report, yet not a mention or hint 

 of Mr. Smith or his labours, escapes this ?;«/;or/i«Z Doctor !, 

 (although he makes many references to the Derby Report), but 

 he on the contrary, concludes his account thus; viz. "In the 

 foregoing account of the strata of the SE part of this Island, I 

 have been purposely very brief: not only because they have al- 

 riady been described bi/ other authors: but because I have rea- 

 son to believe, that a still more detailed and acairate account of 

 them is liktly to be given by a Gentleman (to whom he dedi- 

 cates), who, from his extensive travels both on the Ccntinevi and 

 in this Island, is most competent to the task, and to whose pri- 

 vatef but persevering exertions, Geology has long been deeply 

 indebted." 



Now is it not surprising, that Dr. K., who makes express re- 

 ferences, by volumes and pages, to 44 diflferent works, for his 

 Geological materials J (and refers to special few of his own ma- 

 terials) 



" ^V ho has himself, and sotdc, if not all, of his coadjutors noticed by 

 liiin, p. vii, fxumiiied Mr. Stn tlfs M i])s and Collection, lon;^ a«;o 



+ '11m? fiict here alUidtd to, of the (Tcoi^nost here so extolled, having yet 

 published nutliivg (iu Gci<\oi^\c-A ^uh'^i^cX^, ns far as IJuiovv, is uorthy of 

 observation by the impartial Header, as well as the prevailing practice, of 

 asciibini; all (icognostic merit to M. Werner, who has alike witliheld his 

 sjieciiliithmsfnmi llic Vuhlic, on most of the theoretic points, that are known 

 to he his, by the English Public, onh/ Un-diif^/i the Writings rrf' JMr. Jameson, 

 nnd others of his" admiiins: pupils:" and yet, the plea is almost daily brought 

 forwards, as Mr. Smith's friends in gdicral mnst have heard, bv these Anglo- 

 VVerneriaiis, that it is perfectly fair, to anyhon- obtain, (lud'to jiublis/i, all 

 that .Mr. Smith has so long ago done, without giving him any credit for the 

 &anic, " liTuvse he litis not pnhlishcd them" say they! ! : and I may add for 

 these woi thy Gents, that all which Mr. S. has done in teaching persons, and 

 they in. publishing abstraets of his facts and discoveries, should go for nothing 

 in his favour, but the knowledge of these publications may, and ought as 

 much as possible, to be withheld from the Public ! ! 



I Dr. Kidd, presuming to sit in academic .Tudgement, as it were, on 

 the pretension of al' theprevioiis Write7-s on Geological subjects, as to their 

 not having brought forward am/ perfect Evidence (see his Title) in support 

 o) a t/tcorj/ It/' the Earth, has very unjustly overlooked and made no men- 

 tion 



