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he was made an associate of the Geological Society of London, and 

 other learned institutions of Great Britain. Immediately on his quit- 

 ting his studies he was engaged in the practice of his profession, and 

 he lent his services to the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, the 

 British Iron Company, &c. &c. While engaged in South Wales he 

 made a report to this company, which drew the general attention of 

 men of science to him, and particularly in regard to the execution of 

 a model of part of the coal and iron district of South Wales. This 

 model caused the Gold Isis Medal to be conferred upon him by the 

 " Society of Arts" of London. It was the first model of the kind 

 which had been executed, and it drew so much attention that Sir 

 Francis Chantry had a copy made of it for Dr. Buckland. 



In 1831, iVTr. Taylor came to this country, and resided some years 

 in Philadelphia, in this State. Shortly after, he was engaged in a 

 survey of the coal field of Tioga county, and, subsequently, in the 

 western district of the southern coal field of Pennsylvania, in Dauphin 

 county. Of the latter he made a model, which, in point of scientific 

 exactness and artistical excellence, has not, it is believed, ever been 

 surpassed, if it has ever been equalled, embracing, as it does, the exact 

 geology and topography of 45 miles by 15, the length being 14 feet. 

 From the time of Mr. Taylor's arrival in this country until his death, 

 he was actively employed either in the field, under professional en- 

 gagements, or at his table, in perfecting his observations, and giving 

 them in the form of most valuable contributions to the science of ge- 

 ology, in the journals and transactions of our learned societies. His 

 engagements in most of the mineral districts of the United States, and 

 in many cases beyond the limits of the States, produced professional 

 reports of such a character as to remain models worthy of all praise 

 and imitation. They were universally marked by a character so 

 thorough and so candid as induced the most unbounded confidence in 

 all who sought his professional assistance. 



Mr. Taylor's first literary production was a learned work, entitled 

 ^^ Index Monasticus,'''' in 1 vol. folio, which met with so much favour 

 as to induce him to undertake another learned work, called " A Gene- 

 ral Index to Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum," in 1 vol. folio, with 

 maps and plates. In the transactions of the Geological Society of 

 London, and in the Magazine of Natural History, he published va- 

 rious geological papers, viz: on the Crag Strata of Bramerton ; on 

 the Chalk Strata of Norfolk and Suffolk; on the Progress of Geo- 

 logy ; Introduction to Geology ; Illustrations of Antediluvian Zoology 

 and Botany. In the American Scientific Journals — Geological posi- 

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