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AT a meeting of the Geological Society of London on January 17, Dr. L. R. Cox, of the British Museum (Natural History), delivered a lecture on the life and work of William Smith, the Father of English geology. The subject was chosen for two reasons, one being that this was the session of the Society nearest to the centenary of Smith's death, and the second that Dr. Cox had recently had an opportunity of studying Smith's original notes, diaries and letters, which have not hitherto been made public. These MSS. have apparently lain unexamined at Oxford for many years, presumably since the death of John Phillips, Smith's nephew, who Until his death in 1874 occupied the chair of geology there. They were recently discovered in Oxford in a packing-case by Prof. J. A. Douglas, the present occupier of the chair, and through his courtesy they have since been examined systematically by Dr. Cox. They are now catalogued and housed in a specially built cabinet presented by Dr. K, S. Sandford and Mr. H. A. Sandford.
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William Smith. Nature 145, 299 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145299a0
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