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Smyth was born at Naples on the 26th of August 1817, the son of Admiral W H Smyth and his wife Annarella Warington. His father was engaged in the Admiralty Survey of the Mediterranean at the time of his birth.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1867 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. DURATION OF THE BRITISH COALFIELDS. The astonishing increase in the consumption of coal within the last half century has kept pace with the advancement of various arts and sciences, and has necessitated a constant improvement in the methods and appliances used in its extraction. Our knowledge of the mineral resources of this and other countries has during the same time been placed on a footing so much more definite than formerly, as to excite in the reflecting mind, conversant with the heavy drain now making on our coalfields, a reasonably-founded anxiety as to their duration. Contented security may in its ignorance of the facts assume, and persons interested in maintaining their own special trade, may represent that the coal-seams are "practically inexhaustible," and may stigmatise as "alarmists" those who would invite attention to the bearings of a question so vital to our immediate posterity; but a fair examination of the statistics above set forth, and of the local conditions of our coalbearing districts, will show that at least the time for prudent forethought has arrived. In the last few years, accurate surveys have shown the certain boundaries of most of our coalfields, formed by the actual rise to the surface of the ground of the foundation rocks, in and under which no coal at all is contained. In some other instances they exhibit a surface boundary, beyond which much may be hoped for, bat where in many cases the uncertainty and expense will greatly reduce the value of the extended territory, or, in other words, increase the average charge at which the coals will be raised. Knowing, therefore, most of the edges, and pretty nearly the depth of all our recognised stores of coal, let us remember at what rate we are now digging them out. Th...
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Title: A catalogue of the Mineral Collections in the Museum of Practical Geology ... By W. W. Smyth, T. Reeks, and F. W. Rudler. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOLOGY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps, charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th centuries documenting geological features of the natural world. Also contained are textbooks and early scientific studies that catalogue and chronicle the human stance toward water and land use. Readers will further enjoy early historical maps of rivers and shorelines demonstrating the artistry of journeymen, cartographers, and illustrators. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Smyth, Warington Wilkinson; Rudler, Frederick William; 1864. viii. 190 p. ; 8º. 7106.bb.39.
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Smyth was born at Naples on the 26th of August 1817, the son of Admiral W H Smyth and his wife Annarella Warington. His father was engaged in the Admiralty Survey of the Mediterranean at the time of his birth.
Smyth was educated at Westminster School and Bedford School. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where was a member of the Cambridge crew in the 1839 Boat Race and graduated BA in 1839.
Having gained a travelling scholarship he spent more than four years in Europe, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, paying great attention to mineralogy and mining, examining coal-fields, metalliferous mines and salt-works, and making acquaintance with many distinguished geologists and mineralogists.
On his return to England in 1844 Smyth was appointed mining geologist in the Geological Survey, and in 1851 lecturer at the Royal School of Mines, a post which he held until 1881 when he relinquished the chair of mineralogy but continued as professor of mining. In later years he became chief mineral inspector to the Office of Woods and Forests, and also to the Duchy of Cornwall. He investigated the Roman gold mine at Dolaucothi and published a short paper on his observations in 1846 in Memoirs of the Geological Survey. Subsequently he gave lectures on gold mining as a result of the then gold rushes in California and Australia in the 1850s.
He contributed sundry papers to the Memoirs of the Geological Survey, the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, serving as RGSC President from 1871–1879, and again from 1883–1890.
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He became president of the Geological Society of London in 1866–1868, and in 1879 he was chairman of a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into coal mine accidents, the work in connection with which continued until 1886.
Smyth married Anna Maria Antonia Maskelyne, daughter of Anthony Mervin Story Maskelyne, of Basset Down House, Wiltshire on 9 April 1864. One son, Herbert Warington Smyth, was also a mining engineer, a traveller, and a Geological Survey adviser to the government of Siam. Another son, Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth (1868–1941), won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Omdurman.