144 Note on William Smith, LL.D. 



who was a medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, was killed 

 when on his road to the Pamir, by Mir Wali of Yassin, chiefly, it 

 appears, for the sake of plunder. The whole of the circumstances 

 were ascertained by Drew, and an unfounded suspicion that at one 

 time existed against the Kashmir Government was dispelled. 



After returning to England in somewhat enfeebled health in 1872, 

 Drew was for some time unemployed, and he devoted his leisure to 

 the preparation of his book on Jummu and Kashmir, upon which 

 his reputation for the future must mainly depend. In 1875 he 

 accepted a mastership at Eton, and remained in the college until his 

 death. The duties of his post required constant attendance, and for 

 the last few years he has been but rarely able to take part in the 

 meetings of any of the London scientific societies. He was, how- 

 ever, too widely known, and too generally esteemed by his old 

 friends of the School of Mines, the Geological Survey of Great 

 Britain, the Geological Society, and the Eoyal Geographical Society, 

 as well as by those who knew him in Kashmir, to be forgotten, and 

 it is a matter for deep regret that his untimely' death has prevented 

 his taking that position amongst scientific men in London for which 

 his talents, his knowledge, his tact, and pleasing manners pre- 

 eminently qualified him.' 



Mr. Drew was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1858, 

 and of the Eoyal Geographical Society in 1872. 



nycisoEXjXiJ^isrEOTJs, 



William Smith, L.L.D., "The Father of English Geology." 

 Prof. Judd has called attention to an error, often copied from " The Life of 

 "William Smith," by his nephew, the late Professor John Phillips, F.R.S., of Oxford, 

 in which it is stated that ' ' his bust, surmounting the tablet to his memory, is in the 

 beautiful antique church of All Saints, at Northampton, where his remains lie 

 buried " (see Geol. Mag. for Feb. 1892, p. 95). William Smith lies bmied a few 

 feet from the west tower of the fine old Norman church of Saint Peter's at North- 

 ampton. The bust is placed within the church, against the west wall of the nave, 

 south of the grand Norman arch over the entrance to the tower. It stands ou 

 a marble pedestal inscribed : — 



"To honour the name of William Smith, LL.D. This monument is erected by 

 Friends and Fellow-labourers in the field of British Geology. Born 23rd March, 

 1769, at Churchill in Oxfordshire, and trained to the Profession of a Civil Engineer 

 and Mineral Surveyor, He began, in 1791, to survey collieries and plan canals iu 

 the vicinity of Bath, and having observed that several strata of that District were 

 characterized by peculiar groups of organic remains, he adopted this fact as a 

 principle of comparison, and was by it enabled to identify the strata in distant parts 

 of this Island, To construct sections, and to complete and publish in 1815 a 

 Geological Map of England and Wales. By thus devoting, during his whole life, 

 all the power of an observing mind to the advancement ol one Branch of Science, 

 he gained the title of the ' Father of English Geology.' WHiile ou his way to a 

 Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Birmingham, 

 he died in this town, at the house of his friend George Baker, the historian of 

 Northamptonshire, 28th August, 1839.- 



1 From Proc. Roy. Geographical Society, vol. xiv. No. 1, January, 1892, p. 52- 

 54, by W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S. 



2 I am indebted to the Rev. E. N. Tom, M.A., Rector of St. Peter's, Northampton, 

 for the above trarsjript. There is no sculptor's name ou the bust. — H. W. 



