the usual apologies for cross-posting
after about 4 months waiting, inter-library loans have just informed me that they cannot get me a copy of william smith's "A memoir to the map and delineation of the strata of England and Wales" of 1817
this is not the map itself (the one simon winchester wrote about) but an explanation of how it was drawn, etc., and is said to include a comment to the effect that smith wanted to be able to organise his fossils the way antiquaries could order their coins...
does anyone have access to a copy of this? that they could copy/scan?