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WILLIAM SMITH: HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS. 
By T. Sheppard, M.Sc, F.G.S. 
CONTENTS. 
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Introduction : Smith's Work in Yorkshire . . . .79 
Smith's Syllabus of Lectures ....... 82 
Phillips's Memoir on Smith . . . . . . .86 
Earlier Work on Mapping Rocks and Soils : 
George Owen, 1595 90 
Martin Lister, 1683 92 
John Strachey, 1719 93 
John Woodward, 1723 .95 
Xicolas Desmarest ....... 95 
Christopher Packe, 1743 96 
John Michel, 1760 96 
John Whitehurst, 1778 97 
John Smeaton, 1788 98 
1791 99 
Board of Agriculture Surveys, 1794 . . . .100 
Prof. Jamieson, 1811 101 
James Parkinson, 1811 . . . . . .102 
Smith's Map of Bath, 1799 103 
Map of England and Wales, 1800 . . . . 103 
,, MS. Maps and Sections ...... 105 
Proposed Book, 1801 110 
„ Somersetshire Map, 1805 . . . . . .112 
„ Treatise on Irrigation, 1806 . . . . .112 
,, Report on the Bristol and Taunton Canal, 1811 . .117 
Map of England and Whales, 1815 . . . .118 
Memoir to the Map, 1815 121 
„ Strata identified by Organized Fossils, 1816 . . . 130 
„ Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, 1817 . . 134 
Geological Sections, 1817-1819 140 
,, Distribution of Ammonites . . . . . .153 
„ Plan for the Aire and Dunn Canal, 1819 . . . 153 
Geological Atlas, 1819-1824 155 
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