ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the continuities and novelties in John Phillips' roles in the provinces. From 1834 Phillips continued as keeper of the Yorkshire Museum on a salary of £100 pa and as honorary secretary to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (YPS) until in late December 1840 he resigned from the former post. In 1835 and 1836 Phillips issued two books which elucidated the geology of Yorkshire and thus accomplished the principal purpose proposed by the YPS when it was formed. The 1835 volume was a second edition of his 1829 monograph on the Yorkshire coast. Phillips regarded his 1836 monograph as his best work so he not only supplied copies, printed in York, directly to subscribers but also sent fifty for John Murray to sell in London. As the ranking expert on Yorkshire's geology, including most of the carboniferous strata, Phillips was invited to undertake paid consultancy work, to which in principle he was not opposed.
