Author: Cox, L.R.
Title: NEW LIGHT ON WILLIAM SMITH AND HIS WORK
Description: Wakefield, West Yorkshire Printing Co./Proceedings of Yorkshire GEOLOGICAL society 1942 Plates (8) including folding + examples of Smith's manuscripts. . Octavo grey printed wrappers 99pp. Pencil annotations and marginal lines throughout but a neat tight copy, pagination excellent, very little foxing. Signed bookplate of Stan Robinson to inside of cover. Early geological studies by Smith here augmented by the recent discoveries of his diaries and letters newly unearthed at the Oxford University Museum have here been able to supplement the earlier biographies of John Phillips and Mr.T Sheppard.

Keywords: Geology founder of geological science


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