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CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES, 



Table showing Authors and Dates of Publication, ^tc. —contirmed. 



(A) Draft (Quarto) Report 



County 



Yorks, N. Riding 

 ,, E. „ 

 „ W. „ 



North Wales 

 Brecknock . 

 Cardigan 

 Carmarthen 

 Glamorgan . 

 Pembroke . 

 Radnor 

 Isle of Man 

 Channel Islands . 



Author 



Mr. J. Tuke, Jun. . 

 Isaac Leatham 

 Rennie, Brown, and 



ShirrefE 

 Geo. Kay 

 John Clark 

 T. Lloyd and Turnor 

 Chas. Hassall. 

 John Fox 

 Chas. Hassall. 

 John Clark . 

 Basil Quayle . 



(B) Final (Octavo) Report 



Author 



John Tuke 



H. E. Strickland 



Robert Brown 



Walter Davies 

 \ 



" South Wales " 

 Walter Davies 



Thomas Quayle 



Date 



1800 

 1812 

 1799 



1813 



1814 



No. 



of 



Pages 



370 

 340 

 436 



526 



1170 



1812 I 20ffl 

 1815 3661 



From the soil maps the advance to geological maps is not a very great step, 

 but it was left to William Smith, ' a plain blunt man ' and a civil engineer, born 

 in Oxfordshire in 1769, to prepare the first geological map of any country ; his 

 maps have stood the teet of time, and some of them, especially those of the 

 country around Bath and Scarborough, compare very favourably indeed with the 

 latest publications of the Geological Survey. 



There is no doubt that Smith was inclined to be ' long-winded,' and even 

 his nephew, John Phillips, records that he had a habit of running off into side- 

 issues in such a way that it was exceedingly difficult to follow him or to form 

 a correct idea as to the nature of his discourse. It was probably some such 

 trait in his character which caused the men who formed the Geological Society 

 to give Smith a wide berth, otherwise it eeems difficult to account for the way 

 in which he was at first ignored. However, Smith lived to see his work recog- 

 nised by the Society, and the words uttered by the President, when the first 

 Wollaston Medal was awarded to him in 1831, made amends. 



I have dealt fully with Smith's work elsewhere ('William Smith : His Maps 

 and Memoirs,' ' Proceedings,' Yorkshire Geological Society, 1917, reprinted 

 1920), but the great part he played in connection with the evolution of geological 

 maps demands a brief reference here. 



On the walls of the library of the Geological Society, Burlington House, in 

 a circle fifteen inches in diameter, is ' A map of Five Miles round the City of 

 Bath. . . . Presented to the Geological Society, February 18th, 1831. Wm. 

 Smith, Coloured geologically in 1799.' This is the first geological map ever 

 prepared, and is one of the greatest cartographical treasures we possess. By 

 collecting old Bath Guides I was able to find that its basis was a plan appear- 

 ing in ' The Historic and Local New Bath Guide,' published in that year. 

 There are only three colours, but they illustrate Smith's well-known method of 

 colouring the base of a formation with a deep tint, and shading this upwards 

 towards the outcrop of the next overlying stratum. It also demonstrates how 

 carefully he mapped all the geological lines around Bath. 



A year later (1800) he coloured a geological map connecting the structure of 

 the north of England with that of the south-west, recording the Oolitic series 

 throughout England with remarkable accuracy. This map is lost, but we hope 

 it may yet be found. In 1831 it was in the possession of John Phillips, the 

 curator of the York Museum. 



In 1801 a copy of Gary's ' Index Map of England ' (11 in. by 9 in.) was 

 coloured by Smith and labelled 'General Map of the Strata found in England 

 and Wales.' This was also given to the Geological Society in 18.31. It i.s 

 coloured after the manner of Smith's later maps, the eight tints representint; 

 Chalk, Sand of Portland Rock, Oxford Clay, Oolite, Lias, Trias and Permian. 



