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in Bath was so great that the committee decided to recommend that the 
memorial should be placed on the house adjoining the Tucking mill at 
Midford, where there was no doubt he had lived for several years. 
Accordingly, in the following year, 1889, the committee, having 
obtained the sanction of the proprietor, had the memorial of this 
distinguished geologist inserted in the wall, where it may be seen on the 
bank of a portion of his own canal."* 
The tablet reads : — 
" Here lived 
William Smith, 
' Father of English Geology.' 
Born 23rd. March, 1769. 
Died 28th. August, 1839." 
An iUustration of the slab, and of the mill in which it is placed, from 
photographs by Mr. G. J. Grey, are given with the Rev. H. H. Win- 
wood's paper. 
This is doubtless the memorial which, judging from a notice in the 
press, it was originally proposed to place in the Royal Institution, Bath. 
I understand, however, that no such memorial is in that Institution. 
According to his own statement (Memoirs, p. 125), three portraits 
of Smith were painted ; the best, completed at a single sitting by M. 
Fourau, was presented by his grand nephew, W. Smith of Cheltenham, 
to the Geological Society, which also possesses a cast of the bust in St, 
Peter's Church, Northampton.^ Other portraits are by Solomon 
Williams and John Jackson (1778—1831) } 
The portrait in the London Geological Society's rooms is the same 
as that reproduced in Phillips's " Memoirs " and elsewhere. A small 
reproduction of it is given on p. 212, with the permission of the Editors 
of The Naturalist. It appeared in that journal for November, 1907, 
p. 378. 
* Rev. H. H. Winwood. Proceedings of the Bath and District 
Branch : Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 
for 1908, p. 197. 
t This is the one reproduced in Phillip's " Memoirs of William 
Smith " : by H. Woodward in the Proc. Bath. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. 
Field Club (1902) in "The History of the Geological Society,'* etc. 
J Dictionary of National Biography ; Vol. LIII., p. 151. I have 
not seen these two portraits. 
