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WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
would have been memorable for the production of the results of a life of 
scientific toil, and spared neither friendly entreaty, nor pecuniary aid, 
nor personal exertion, to bring this favourite design to effect. Mr. 
Smith meditated and wrote, but did not arrange his papers, and except 
a beautiful geological map of the Hackness estate, executed in great 
detail and with extreme exactitude, nothing of importance came from 
his hands to the public. He was now advanced to the age of sixty 
years." 
As the Report of the British Association shows that this geological 
map was exhibited at the inaugural meeting at York in 1831, it seems 
probable that the Hackness map was drawn in 1829 or 1830. 
In the hope of tracing this, the last piece of mapping executed by 
Smith, and relating to one of the most interesting parts of our county, 
I recently communicated with the Hon. Francis Johnstone. He informs 
me that he had the estate papers looked through but was unable to find 
Smith's map, or any of his papers. He had also asked Lord Derwent, 
who remembered the map, but it was feared it was destroyed, as 
all the family papers were burnt when the Hall was destroyed. Thus 
this fire, in addition to destroying many valuable family documents, 
robbed geological science of a great treasure. 
In Fox-Strang ways' Jurassic Rocks of Yorkshire," Vol. I., 
(Appendix), occurs a note to the effect that the Hackness Map was 
" lithographed by Day, London." 
In a list of the " Scientific communications received at the 
Society's Meetings " pubhshed in the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's 
Report for 1831, I find " Memoir on the stratification of the Hackness 
Hills, accompanied by a Geological Map of the district, by William 
Smith Esq." And among the " Donations to the Library," on page 35 
of the same report is " Wm. Smith Esq. Geological Map of the Hackness 
Hills." 
This led me to enquire at the York Museum, but I regret to learn 
that, though the Society possesses many of Smith's published maps and 
memoirs, these two important items cannot be traced. 
I next turned to the Reports of the Scarborough Philosophical 
Society, as, while staying at Hackness in his later years. Smith's home 
was within a few miles of Scarborough, and his employer. Sir J. V. B. 
Johnstone, was at that tim,e the President of the Scarborough Philos- 
