| Description | Letter from William Henry FITTON, Paris, to George Bellas Greenough, 20 Dec 1822. Re: Is willing to help the Map Committee acquire maps, as he is engaged in trying to buy some himself, lists possibilities to be had, underneath which are comments by Greenough; D'Halloy about to publish a new map, Prevost's memoir about to go to press; De la Beche's, Buckland's and Strangways' papers in the Transactions have received much notice; will write to Lyell about Council's wishes; the cost of copying Von Buch's small map. |
| Administrative History | The 'Map Committee' was the Committee for the Purchase of Maps, which was established to inquire whether the leading publishers of maps on the continent would be willing to supply the Society in exchange for a number of copies of Greenough's ‘Geological Map of England & Wales' (1820). |