380 Ftee Remarks on Mr. Grcemiigli's Geological Map. 



Greenoiigh had in preparation, wtuild possess*, over the original 

 Geological Map oF these Kinj,'(loms, pu')lisi)ed by Mr. William 

 Smith, in September 1S15 (price 5 guineas, with its Memoir 

 oF 52 pages) ; and the same, and even liigher ideas have been 

 raised, hv the verbal Representations of many oFtlie Members of 

 the Geol'jgical Society and their Friends, who have (like the 1st, 

 of the Writers aUuded to)- on very frequent occasions spoken of 

 this intended Map, a? ".the Geological Sucieli/'s Mi\\)" ; and 

 these expectations have not a little been heightened, bv the per-, 

 usal of the late Annual Report on the affairs of the Geological 

 Society; wiierein it is stated (see p. 228 of tliis Volume), that 

 certain Individuals (who are ncimeless) have coiitriintec! , avd lr.\d 

 advanced large Sums oFM.oncy, and engaged to pay still further 

 Sums, amounting in the whole to sevcnlten hiir.difd Foii7i(/s, for 

 the preparing and bringing out of Mr. Greenough's Map audits 

 Memoir, " under the direction of (he Geological Sodety" ! 



I am on three accounts happy in being able now to announce, 

 to such of your Readers whose interest may have been excited, 

 as above, that this Mai) and its Memoir, are now before the Pub- 

 lic, having been published by Longman and Co. (at 6 guineas) 

 on the 5th of May. 



Firstly, because I find in the Map, many new divisions of 

 Strata and minuter details of others, than have yet been given by 

 Mr. Smith, regarding much of the ive^tevn /;«// of our Island. 



Secondly, because (except in a few instances which I intend 

 to speak oFliereafter) the intention has not been acted on, which 

 u-as avowed to me by Mr. G. on the iSth of Nov. Ibll 1, of giv- 

 ing to this Map an entire geognoslic Character f, that is, as his 

 Friend and the herald of his fame, Dr. F., so lately as February 

 ISlSjintimated (in the Edinburgh Review, Vol. xix. p.S3S)inso 

 limitiufj; theformations dei)icted by colours on the Map, that in- 

 ctead of the " barbarous Names" used by Mr. Smith, the Geog- 

 noslic, or " the proper scienlijic riames of the Substances C07n- 

 pasing the Straia," could be used by Mr. G. ; such names, to be 

 settled by a Committee oj the Geological Society ; instead how-- 



* Eight years ago (June 1812) I recorded my anticipation of tliese im- 

 provements, in p. 42u of your ii[)tli Volume ; formed while relying on the 

 ■word jinl faith, of th;. Member for Gatton, the Lieutenant of East India Vo- 

 lunteers, the President oi the Geo. Soc. &c. &c. that no publication, or «»»- 

 noiincemetit of mich an inlention, should take I'lace, of the Map then pre- 

 paring, which / had in its cr.ily stages, been principally instrun)cntal in fur- 

 nishing, with a large portion of JMr. Smith's uajjublishcd materials ; parti-, 

 cularly on the eastern half of our Island ; being solemnly a.ssured by Mr. G. 

 at various times, between the 25th of March and a few days before the 18th 

 of Nov. 181 1, that this Map should he consulted, only by the Members of the 

 Geological Society, resorting to him, or to its House, or as a specimen of 

 what Mr. Smith then had, in very great part, ready to publish. 



t See r. M. Vol. 39, p. 425, Vol. 45, p. o37, &:c. 



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