Notes on the various issues of Sir Richard Griffith's quarter‐inch Geological Map of Ireland, 1839–1855

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• 1879–80 . Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland , 5 : 134 – 148 . The most useful history of the map is still that prepared by M. H. Close as part of his obituary notice of Griffith. See
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• The society became the Royal Dublin Society injune 1820.
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• Royal Geological Society of Ireland Papers, ’Minutes of meetings of council 1831–1863’, minutes of 20 March and 3 April 1833. The papers are in the possession of the Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin.
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• 1837 . Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 88 – 90 . Liverpool pt. 2,
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• 1839–43 . Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin , 2 : 167 Ibid., Newcastle upon Tyne (1838), pt. 2, 81–84;
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• The map is entitled ‘GEOLOGICAL/MAP OF/IRELAND/to accompany the Report of the/RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS/1837/Shewing the different lines laid down/UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMIS‐SIONERS/and those proposed by Joint Stock Companies’, and it has an engraved area of 633 x 791 mm. See also ‘Second report of the commissioners appointed to consider and recommend a general system of railways for Ireland’, House of Commons 1837–38, xxxv (34).
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• Master copies were seemingly also maintained elsewhere. A copy of Griffith's map in the office of the Geological Survey of Ireland bears upon the reverse of each segment a pencilled note to the effect that the map was coloured from the corrected copy in the Engineer's Office at Dublin Castle.
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• ‘Trigonometrical surveys’, House of Commons 1847, xxxvi (171), 4.
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• 1839–13 . Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin , 2 : 167 – 168 .
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• 1838–42 . Proceedings of the Geological Society , 3 : 136 – 138 .
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• 1839–43 . Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin , 2 : 78 – 90 . 167 – 169 .
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• Ibid., 139f.
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• Ibid., 159–160, 167–172.
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• Ibid., 167–169.
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• Geological Survey of Ireland letter books located in the Survey's Dublin library.
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• 1839–43 . Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin , 2 : 172
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• Ibid., 78–90.
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• Valuation Office Letter Books, Griffith to Apjohn 6 June 1840, Public Record Office, Dublin.
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• 1837 . Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 88 – 90 . Liverpool pt. 2,
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• Ibid., Glasgow (1840), pt. 2, 110.
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• 1839–43 . Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin , 2 : 147 – 160 . 167 – 169 . Royal Geological Society of Ireland Papers, ’Proceedings of general meetings 1831–1875';
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• Royal Geological Society of Ireland Papers, proceedings of general meetings.
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• Valuation Office Letter Booh, Griffith to Apjohn 6 June 1840.
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• Ibid.
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• Ibid.
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• 1853–55 . Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin , 6 : 246
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• Ibid., 7 (1855–57), 210.
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