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WILLIAM SMITH ! HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
before discriminated, with those which are known in the southern 
coarse of the strata. Mr. S. is engaged in introducing these new ob- 
servations into his geological map of Yorkshire, which he exhibited 
during his lectures ; and he also entertains an intention of publishing 
the documents on which the colouring of that map is founded — the 
valuable fruits of many years of laborious investigation. It must 
afford great satisfaction to the Society that they have in any degree 
been instrumental in encouraging the researches of so able a geologist." 
A further reference to a visit to Hull by Smith occurs in the Society's 
report for the Session ending May, 1839, page 9 : — 
" A recent visit to the town from Dr. Smith, enabled the father 
of English Geology, as he is justly styled, an opportunity of examining 
our collection of specimens illustrative of his favourite science, some 
of these he declared to be entirely new to him, while many others, upon 
his authority, were pronounced to be of great value and variety. He 
congratulated the Society on possessing the opportunity of resorting 
to so valuable a collection of well arranged fossils, as affording com- 
pensation, to a considerable extent, for the deficiency of our neighbour- 
hood in geological interest." 
This must have been Smith's last visit to Hull, for he died a few 
months later. 
Smith and PhilUps gave a similar set of lectures to that delivered 
at Hull to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and they are referred 
to in the report of the York Society in almost identically the same words 
as those quoted from the Hull report ! Later they were delivered at 
Sheffield and Scarborough. Fortunately a copy of this remarkable 
syllabus is preserved,* and as it is one of the earliest of its kind, and 
has a particular interest to Yorkshire geologists, it may be quoted 
here : — 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURES ON GEOLOGY, 
BY WILLIAM SMITH, MINERAL SURVEYOR. 
LECTURE L 
" Introductory. — Geology a Science of great extent and 
universal interest ; not a science of hard names, but beautifully 
* Phillips's Memoirs of William Smith, 1844, pp. 107-109. 
