WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
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SMITH. 1817. 
Distribution of Ammonites. 
At the Annual General Meeting ot the Geological Society, held on 
February 17th, 1860, John Phillips gives particulars of an " unpubhshed 
Table of the Distribution of Ammonites," which was drawn up by his 
own hand in 1817. It forms one of a series of such attempts of which 
an example has been printed, viz., the Table of Echini, in the " Strati- 
graphical System of Organised Fossils (1817)." This table is reproduced 
on a folding plate facing page xli. of the " Anniversary Address of the 
President " in Quart Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XVI., 1860. It is headed 
" Table of the Distribution of Ammonites, drawn up by John Phillips, 
under the direction of William Smith, in 1817." A footnote informs us 
that " The Table was drawn up previous to the publication, in 1817, 
of the ' Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils," which contains 
a few more names of Ammonites — some proposed by Smith, as A. calix, 
which is now called A. Blagdeni.'" 
AIKE AND DUNN CANAL. 1819. 
Phillips tells us* that " From the eastern coast he [Smith] was 
called into Yorkshire to consider of a plan for a new canal between 
the River Aire and Knottingley and the River Don at Doncaster, 
with a branch down the River Went. On this matter he was em- 
ployed at frequent intervals till 1819, when the Bill was brought into 
Parliament, and defeated by the strenuous opposition of the Aire and 
Calder Navigation Company." Phillips does not mention that a 
plan was prepared in connection with this scheme. Among a col- 
lection of Yorkshire maps, which I purchased a little while ago, is a 
lithographed copy of a map of south Yorkshire, which does not appear 
to have been seen by any of Smith's later biographers. The litho- 
graph was reproduced in The Naturalist for 1912, page 282, and we are 
able to give the illustration herewith. It is described as Proposed 
Aire and Dunn Canal to drain the contiguous lands and to shorten 
and connect the present navigation. William Smith, 1819." In 
the bottom right-hand corner is a note to the effect that the map was 
" drawn on stone by J. Phillips." This map was apparently issued 
with the prospectus of the proposed Company, as it is foolscap size, 
folded in four, and has on the back of one of the folds : " Aire and 
Dun (sic) Junction Canal and Extensive Drainage in Yorks. Printed 
by E. William's, 11 Strand." 
* Memoirs, p. 88. 
