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quently distinguished nephew, the late Professor John Phillips. In 
1826 Dr. Smith and his eccentric wife established themselves in our 
house, where they dwelt for a considerable time One of the 
grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William 
Smith My boyish reminiscences of the old engineer, as he 
sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to 
measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted 
stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with 
snuff, of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the 
finely chiselled nostril, and the dark coat with its rounded outline and 
somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present in my memory. Spend- 
ing the greater portion of his morning in writing, towards noon he 
would slowly wend his way to the museum, where he always found in 
my father a friend with whom to gossip about the rocks of the Cotswolds, 
the clays of Kimmeridge, or the drainage of the Eastern Fens. He 
would expound in a Coleridgean fashion his ideas of their relation to 
the strata of Yorkshire and of the other parts of England. His walking 
pace never varied, it was slow and dignified ; he was usually followed 
a tew yards in the rear by his rose-cheeked partner in life. We have a 
thousand times contemplated the fine old man, who, amid his favourite 
haunts, thus laid the foundations of geological science." 
1826. 
From the Report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society for 1826,* we learn that " The Yorkshire collection has also 
been enriched by an extensive suite of fossils (presented by Mr. 
Dunn and Mr. Bean) containmg some new crustaceous kinds, from 
the grey shale near the base of Scarborough Cliff, which Mr. Smith 
has identified with the Oxford Clay But the most valuable 
geological present ichich the society has received, is a map of the 
north-eastern part of Yorkshire, in ivhich Mr. Smith has laid down ivith 
accuracy his recent discoveries. He has, at the same time, announced 
his expectation of completing, in a short time, his description of the 
whole county, on the excellent sheets lately published by Mr. Cary ; 
and proposes to accompany his map with a work comprising a detail 
of the numerous observations on which the colouring is founded. The 
council cannot forbear from expressing a strong hope, that this work 
* York, 1827, p. 15. 
