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APPENDIX A : W. SMITH S CLAIMS 
This information was, imnaediately on its development, converted 
to use by 
Mr. Davis in his Valuation ; 
Mr. Farey in the numerous investigations which his avoca- 
tions require ; 
Mr. B. Bevan, in his situation of Engineer ; 
Mr. Townsend in the compilation of his Book ; 
Mr. Parkinson, made it an important Article in his 2nd and 
3rd vol., 
Mr. Phillips also ; 
The Encyclopaedia Brittanica (through Mr. Farey) has 
numerous articles derived from the same source ; 
The Philosophical and other Magazines ; 
Philosophical Transactions ; 
Sowerby's Mineral Conchology, might not otherwise have been 
published or with much less interest than it now has, 
and it may be questioned whether 
The Geological Society would have been so early established 
without the above-named general diffusion of knowledge 
on the subject. 
The Art of Mapmaking is improved by it ; Mr. Gary and Mr. 
Arrowsmith, in their new Maps having evidently attended to the courses 
of the Strata in their shading of the Hills. 
Thus, while all who could pick up the information thus profusely 
scattered thought themselves at liberty to publish it, I have been 
left to pursue, unrewarded and alone, the drudgery of more sub- 
stantial utility, and my numerous Papers, from want of means, are 
suffered to remain, from year to year unpubhshed. 
My Claims derived from estabUshed Discoveries, which result 
from 30 years of observation on British Geology, consist : 
In having so long back developed the structure of the Earth, 
in the neighbourhood of Bath, and unravelled the perplexity which 
the Beds in that neighbourhood exhibit, and made kno\vn the Facts 
& Inferences which they suggested." " This enumeration of the 
West of England Strata was circulated very extensively in MS ; and 
