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ON August 28, 1839, ‘Strata’ Smith, as he was familiarly known, died at the house of a friend in Northampton. He was on his way to a meeting of the British Association in Birmingham, to which he had been specially invited, but was taken ill before he could continue his journey. Thus passed away, at the age of seventy years, one of the greatest figures in British geology.
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E., V. William Smith (1769–1839), The Father of English Geology. Nature 144, 354–355 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144354a0
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