WILLIAM SMITH : HIS MAPS AND MEMOIRS 
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INSCRIPTION ON A BRASS PLATE 
Attached to the 
Foundation Stone of the Museum. 
This Building, Erected for a Museum, 
By Subscription of the Members of the 
SCARBOROUGH PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
was begun April 9, 1828. 
The Principal Projectors were. 
Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., President ; 
Thomas Duesbery, Esq., 
who presented the collection of the late Thos. Hinderwell, Esq.; 
Robert Tindall, Jun. Esq., Chairman of the 
Building Committee ; 
John Dunn, Esq., Secretary ; 
William Smith, Esq., Geologist ; 
Mr. Bean and Mr. Williamson, Naturalists. 
This bears Smith's name and lends colour to the remark in the 
report that Smith suggested the circular shape of the Scarborough 
Museum. 
The first pamphlet is 12mo., 16 pp. and is entitled " Proceedings 
at the Public Dinner, on the opening of the Scarborough Museum, on 
Monday, Aug. 31, 1829 [Extract from the Yorkshire Gazette]. The 
following appears on pp. 14-15 : — 
" Sir George Cayley said, he would propose the health of an 
individual who was not only really and bona fide the discoverer and the 
father of Geology, but who had brought the Science before them, and 
made it demonstrably apparent ; and whose observations and discov- 
eries had not only been extremely useful in this country, but on the 
continent — Mr. Smith, the Father of Geology, — ^three times three. 
" Mr. Smith, in returning thanks., expressed the pleasure it gave him 
to be in any measure useful ; he only wished to live for this purpose, and 
he was sorry that he could do no more for the science at present. He 
had much more information in store ; and he had this day produced a 
map of the stratification of the Hackness Hills. His maps and papers 
were so numerous, that he had neither time nor means to bring them 
before the public. 
