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Autograph Letter Signed, sending his book, and looking forward to having “better opportunities for laying before you anything in my possession worth examination”. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, minor blemishes only. Highgate, 30 June 1848. Joshua Toulmin Smith (1816-1869), geologist, political theorist, lawyer. Smith became leader of effective action against cholera in his own neighbourhood at Highgate. he printed a series of papers (Ann. and Mag. of Natural History, August 1847–May 1848, issued as a volume 1848) on ‘The Ventriculidæ of the Chalk.’ The monograph, which was illustrated by his own pencil, was based on laborious microscopic investigations; it established the true character, hitherto imperfectly known, of the class of fossils of which it treated, and still remains a chief authority on the subject. This work drew round him the leading geologists of the day.