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WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
This memoir is continued on pp. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23, 
and three lines are written on the bottom of the next page, which has 
been all cut away except for these few concluding words of the 
Memoir. It ends up with the date October 2nd, 1830." 
• In order to preserve it, this small fragment containing the last three 
lines of the Hackness Memoir has been pasted on a sheet from the 
same note book, which apparently contained some of Smith's botanical 
notes. These are headings to paragraphs " On Sap," " Fall of the Leaf," 
" Size of the Vegetable Organs," " Inclination of Plants towards the 
light," etc. The notes themselves, however, are in shorthand — most 
clearly and beautifully written, and from the perfect outlines they must 
have taken longer to write than if in longhand ; though of course the 
signs do not occupy so much space. 
The next page (25, unnumbered) is headed " Agriculture. An 
investigation of circumstances relating to the present ill-success of 
farming. By W. Smith." This article, which occupies 5| pages, is 
in shorthand, with the exception of the headings : — " land tax," 
" In the matter between the farmer and the labourer" (?), and 
"Sources of employment." 
The paper referred to occupies pp. 25-30 (unnumbered, as are the 
remainder.) 
Page 31 is headed " Vegetable Phisiology " (sic.) It is mostly in 
shorthand, but among the headings to the paragraph are " Causes of the 
beautiful meadows and lawns peculiar to England," " Manner of 
preparing a soil on a hard rock," etc. Page 32, contains the concluding 
part of an extract from the Journal of the Royal Institution in refer- 
ence to extracting teeth ! 
P. 33 [2] is headed " Extract from the York Courant and Original 
Advertiser, Tuesday, March 6, 1832. Mr. William Smith. We last week 
stated that at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society on the 17th 
ult., it was announced that Government, on the application of Lord 
Morpeth, had granted a pension of £100 per annum, to Mr. Will. Smith, 
late of Scarbro, but now in this city, a reward for his long and valuable 
services to geology. This instance of patronage reflects great credit on 
Government." Then follows an extract fiom Townsend's ' Character 
of Moses established," which we have already quoted. 
Next is a quotation from the Eev. R. Warner's Literary Recollec- 
