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WILLIAM SMITH ! HIS MAPS AXD MEMOIRS 
will be patronized by liberal subscriptions, and afford the author some 
remuneration for a long life of successful, but ill rewarded labour in 
the service of science." 
The map presented to the Society would presumably be the north- 
east section of his map of Yorkshire issued four years previously, 
and the ' map shortly to be issued on the maps by Mr. Gary,' was 
presumably a new edition of this. I cannot find, however, that 
a new edition was published ; certainly the proposed accompanying^ 
work " never appeared. 
JOHN PHILLIPS, 1829. 
In 1829 appeared the first edition of John Phillips's well-known 
" Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire." This was dedicated 
" To 
William Smith, Esq., 
who has spent his life 
in establishing the 
Philosophical Principles of Geology, 
AND in applying THEM, WHEN ESTABLISHED, 
to practical use, 
This Work 
is respectfully dedicated, 
By his Affectionate Nephew, 
AND grateful PuPIL, 
John Phillips. 
In his " Introduction " to this work Phillips makes the position 
in regard to Smith's investigation very clear. He says : — 
" The first person in England who studied, and who taught others 
to study, the structure of the earth upon the strict principles of the 
inductive philosophy, was Mr. Smith. Having provided himself with 
methods of identifying the strata by an attentive examination of all 
the circumstances which distinguish the one from the other, and 
especially by a comparative survey of their organic contents, he ex- 
tended his observations to districts far distant from that in which 
they were originally commenced, and fixed at length on a substantial 
basis, the important doctrine of general formations. It was in 1794, 
that Mr. Smith first saw the wolds and moorland hills in the eastern 
