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WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
seventieth year, in excellent health and spirits, which appeared 
to promise years of thought, if not activity. Exept a few days 
employed in re-examining with Mr. Barry the quarries near Worksop, 
which had been selected by the Commission, he remained principally in 
the vicinity of Scarborough (' walking over farms at Silpho and Broxa, 
and other parts of the Hackness estate ') till July." 
Smith's work on this Commission appears in a detailed " Keport to 
the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, 
Works and Buildings," dated 16th March, 1839. It is accompanied by 
elaborate tables with details of the stone, etc. The report however, is 
signed jointly and no part of it is shown as by Smith alone. Details are 
also given in the second part of a paper on " Lithology, or observations 
on Stone used for building, by C. H. Smith. Read at the Ordinary 
General Meetings of the Royal Institute of British Architects, held on 
Monday, the 29th of April, and on Monday the 3rd of June, 1844. 
Treating chiefly of the Magnesian Limestone of Yorkshire, Derbyshire 
and Nottinghamshire, with reference to the selection of stone for 
building the exterior of the New Houses of Parliament." * 4to. 36 pp. 
map and section. 
SMITH MSS. 
Another interesting series of papers has recently been brought to 
light by the enquiries of our friends of the Scarborough Philosophical 
and Archaeological Society. As already pointed out, Mr. R. Turnbull 
was a pupil of Smith's at Hackness, and received many of his maps and 
papers. These passed into the hands of his daughters, from whom Mr. 
S. P. Turnbull, M. A., J.P., grandson of Mr. Smith's pupil, obtained them. 
These papers have since been given to the Scarborough Society for its- 
Museum, and I am indebted to the Society for the loan of them. 
They consist of 
(a) Biographical Notice of William Smith, LL.D., by John 
Phillips. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1839, p. 213, et sec. 
(6) Geology of England. Mr. Smith's Claims. 
(c) MS. (4pp. 8vo) apparently in Smith's Handwriting, on 
" Freestone " (2 pp.) and " Building Stone." (2 pp.) 
* This contains the statement (p. 11) that ''The Churches at Hull, 
Beverley and Tadcaster are mostly built with magnesian limestone 
from Bramham Moor, and are in such a condition as to convey to the 
beholder a very unfavourable impression of the durability of that 
material." 
