Dr. Kidd's recent JVork on Geology. 339 



ieriah) should have suppressed the mention, of all of those ''other 

 authors" (Query, Farey, Parkinson*, Sowerby, Townsend, Bake- 

 well f, &c. ?) who have briefly described the strata of England, if 

 he meant to allude to the publishers of^lr. Smith's results; but 

 that i\either Mr. Smith or any of those who have had the libera- 

 litv, publicly to bring forward or admit his claims on this head, 

 were intended in all the paragraphs here quoted from Dr. K. will 

 be apparent, from the well known fact of Mr. Smith 72ever having 

 qui/ led (his kingdom ; and also from the two very next paragraphs 

 in Dr. K's Book, which, says he, contain " the earliest ^uAmost 

 interesting hints I have met tviih respecting a regularity in the 

 succession of the strata of the Earth ;" — the first of these early 

 and notable instances, is, a mere suggestion, on an unfounded 

 opinion hy Dr. Lister, in 16S4, for others to set about making a 

 coloured Map of the " upper soils" (whether alluvial or other- 

 wise) of England, but whick^Tzo one attempted to carry into effect, 

 until tiie County Reports to the Board of Agriculture were under- 

 taken, long shice Mr. Smith's Map of the Strata (lieing Icneatk 

 these superficial and alluvial Soils) was begun and well nigh 

 finished. 



The second of these interesting cases, quoted by Dr. K. i.<5, 

 that of Mr. B. Holloway (not MitchellX, as the very reprehen- 

 sible laxity of the Doctor's quotations, had said) \vho in 1722 

 mentioned, in a Letter to Dr. Woodward, that the Fuller's-Earth 

 Sand ridge of IVoLurn, ranged through Shotover near Oxford, 

 and Newmarket-heath near Cambridge, and accompanied "every- 



tion of the recent work that I liavo qiioted in p 337, by the Rev. Joseph 

 Towiibend, the respectable author of Travels in Spain: and for which no 

 sufficient reasou appears to me in the readins^ of Dr. K's Book, but the im- 

 proper desire, more effectiiallv to conceal Mr. Smith's claims, and appro- 

 priatc /lis discureries to hif, Geognostic Friend/ 



* Mr. Jaiiieb Parkinson's "Organic Remains," in 3 volumes 4to, con- 

 taining towards its conclusion, a very explicit notice of Mr. Smith's disco- 

 veries and of his chief results; and Mr. James Sowerl)y's " iMineral C;>n- 

 chology," containing a great many local facts respecting the Strata of Eni;- 

 1am) and their ori;anic contents, and in \rliich due justice has been done 

 to Mr. Smith, are alike passed over ivithout lucntion, by the impartial 

 Dr. K. ! 



t Mr. Bakeweli's Introduction to Ocoloey, 1st Edit, as beinz the last 

 express work on the suhjcct in this Country, is very rcprehensihly over- 

 looked by Dr. K ; but this could not ha^e been, on account of his 

 declared partiality to Mr. Smith, as the Readers of your xliid and xliiiil 

 volumes must be sufficiently aware. — I would adil, ll-at the forthcoiniiiij 

 2nd Edition of Mr. B's work will, it is said (tiy himself), endeavour to make 

 amends to Mr. Sinitli, for the neglect shown to him in the first: and perhaps 

 certain Geoi^nosts may have been much earlier apprized of tliis circum- 

 stance, than myself.'. 



J See the Pliil. Mafj. vol. x^xvi. p. 102, vol. xxxvii p. 17j Note, and 

 *ui. xxxix. J). 91 Noiv. 



* Y 2 where 



