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THE HALL. 
discussed, Sir James Hall was induced to make many experi- 
ments of a very suggestive and important character in connexion 
with the subject, and he may in truth he regarded as the 
founder of experimental geology. 
The results of his investigations will be found in the Transac- 
tions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Sir James Hall died 
in 1832 ; and as an attentive geological observer, and a zealous 
chemical experimentalist, his bust finds its appropriate place 
with the men of his time, his friends and fellow-workers, 
Hutton and Playfair. 
The bust is mounted on a pedestal of red serpentine from the 
Lizard, Cornwall (No. 201). 
William Smith, LL.D . — An original bust by M. Noble . 
No. 111. 
William Smith enjoys the distinguished merit of having 
been the author of the first geological map of England and 
Wales. He was born 23rd March 1769, at Churchill, in Oxford- 
shire, and died 28th August 1839, at Northampton. At an 
early period he was much struck with the constancy of the 
order of superposition of the strata, and with the characters of 
their organic remains. Following his occupation as a land 
surveyor, he travelled much ; and in 1794 he was enabled, by 
one long journey through a great part of England and Wales, to 
commence his “ Geological Map of England and Wales,” and to 
draw up a “ Table of the Superposition of the Strata.” It was 
not until 1815 that those labours were fully developed, when he 
published a “Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales,” 
and a memoir on the subject. In 1831 the Geological Society 
of London awarded to Mr. W. Smith their first Wollaston medal 
“ in consideration of his being a great original discoverer in 
English geology, and especially for being the first in this country 
to discover and to teach the identification of strata, and to 
determine their succession by means of the imbedded fossils.” 
It was in presenting this medal that Prof. Sedgwick, in an 
eloquent and touching address, referred to the recipient of the 
award as “the Father of English Geology,” a title by which he 
has ever since been known. A memoir of William Smith was 
written by his nephew John Phillips, who became the distin- 
guished Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford. 
Smith’s bust, which is appropriately placed opposite to that 
of the great geological philosopher Hutton, is mounted on a 
column of red marble from Kenry, in co. Limerick (No. 112). 
William Buokland, D.D., F.R.S. — A bust by H. Weekes, KA. t 
1860. Presented by subscription. No. 5. 
William Buckland was born at Axminster on the 12th 
March 1784. His taste for geological pursuits appears to have 
