3-078-259 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Sir Warington Smyth, F.R.S., 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Abel Lewis, of mineralogist Warington Wilkinson Smyth. '[He] commenced a personal inspection and study of the mineral products and mining industries of Germany, Austria, Hungary, European Turkey, and Asia Minor, which occupied him four years...in 1844, he was appointed...to a post on the Geological Survey. In 1851, on the formation of the Royal School of Mines in Jermyn-street, he became lecturer on mineralogy and mining...About the same time he was appointed inspector of the mineral property of the Duchy of Cornwall, and soon afterwards Chief Mineral Inspector to the Crown...For the Geological Society he has done much, having been one of the honorary secretarie..., president..., and foreign secretary for the last sixteen years. In 1879 he was appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission on Accidents in Coal Mines, to the duties of which office he devoted much labour during seven years, and for this and other public services he received the honour of knighthood in 1887...He published in 1856 a book entitled "A Year with the Turks," and, in 1867, " A Rudimentary Treatise on Coal and Coal Mining,"...which has been translated into the principal foreign languages'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.