AT THE BEGINNING OF BIOSTRATIGRAPHICAL RESEARCHES AND GEOLOGICAL MAPPING: THE 250TH ANNIVERSARYOF WILLIAM SMITH’S BIRTHDAY
March 23rd, 2019 marks the 250th birth anniversary of William Smith, the English cartographer and geologist. The article gives brief biographical data of the scientist. William Smith is known as the author of the first regional geological map. His works as well as the research of French naturalists Jean Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart in the first part of XIX century laid the foundation of modern biostratigraphy.