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separate creation; or how could the earth be formed stratum super 
stratum, and each abundantly stored with a different race of animals 
and plants. Surely these innumerable and finely organized fossils 
are not the sports of nature placed there to excite the attention of the 
idly curious, but they must, like the other works of the great Creator, 
have their use." 
" The chief object of this work being to show the utility of organized 
Fossils in identifying the Strata, nothing further will be attempted 
in the systematic arrangement than is necessary to make the subject 
intelhgible ; and the numerous useful and interesting deductions 
thence resulting will more appropriately follow than precede the regu- 
lar description of them in the order of strata. The Term " Organized 
Fossils ' is generally applied to all fossil matter that has a relation to the 
form of any organized body, either animal or vegetable. These substances 
are also called 'Fossils,' 'Petrifactions,' and 'Organic Remains' 
The Introduction occupies pages iii.-xi. 
Then follows a coloured " Geological Table of British Organ- 
ized Fossils, / which identify the courses and continuity of 
the Strata in their order of superposition ; / as originally 
discovered by W. Smith, Civil Engineer ; with reference to his / 
Geological Map of England and Wales." 
The Table is divided into five columns, viz : " Organized Fossils 
which Identify the respective Strata," " Names of Strata on the 
Shelves of the Geological Collection," " Colours on the Map of Strata," 
*' Names in the Memoir and the Peculiarities of the Strata," and 
** Products of the Strata." (Copy attached). 
Generally speaking the Table is similar to that in " A Memoir to 
the Map and Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales," 1815, 
already described ; but is more elaborate. 
A note at the bottom of the Table states : — " From the re-examina- 
tion of the Author's numerous Specimens in the arrangement of his Geo- 
logical Collection in the British Museum and his subsequent observations, 
this list of the Strata has been improved and his future exertions will be 
in proportion to the encouragement ivhich he receives from the Public. 
This apparently was not much. 
Below this, but outside the border, is "A Geological Map of England 
-and Wales on 15 Sheets, dedicated by permission to Sr. Josh. Banks, 
P.R.S., by W. Smith, also by the same author, ' Strata identified by 
organised fossils.' Sold by John Cary, 181 Strand, London." 
