1824.] late Rev. J. J. Conybeare. 167 



with the whole field of inquiry : his deep and varied information 

 on every part of it was unrivalled, and stood widely distinguished 

 from the narrow erudition which sometimes passes current. 

 This renders it a subject for regret that the Sermons he recently 

 preached at the Bampton Lecture, printed only for limited circu- 

 lation, and a Reply to Pakeoromaica, should form his only publi- 

 cations of a theological nature. 



Though Mr. Conybeare never appeared to labour, " yet his 

 mind was too active not to demand almost constant occupation; 

 and he therefore naturally sought for relaxation in change of 

 intellectual employment: thus he occasionally pursued, and 

 with much keenness, a great variety of subordinate objects ; 

 such as the history of art, — the history of languages, — the lite- 

 rature of the middle ages, — mineralogy, and chemistry ; but 

 though in all these powers like his could not fail to give him a 

 respectable rank, yet, to them, those powers never were applied, 

 or intended to be applied, with sufficient earnestness to ensure 

 any very distinguished progress ;" except in those departments 

 of antiquarian literature to which we have already adverted. 



The Transactions of the Geological Society, and the new 

 series of the Annals, contain, we believe, all Mr. Conybeare's 

 papers on scientific subjects. In the second volume of the 

 former work he published some " Memoranda relative to 

 Clevelly, North Devon ; " in which, having visited the spot in 

 company with Mr. Buckland, he describes the singular con- 

 tortions in the grauwacke forming the cliffs near that town; 

 illustrating his description by sketches : and recommending the 

 establishment of a line of separation, in the subdivision of our 

 rocks, between the rock which under the names of dunstone 

 and shillat covers so large a portion of the North of Devon, 

 and that metalliferous slate which lying immediately upon the 

 granite of Dartmoor and Cornwall, forms the most considerable 

 part of the mining tract in both counties. In the fourth volume 

 of the same work are some " Memoranda relative to the Por- 

 phyritic Veins, Sec. of St. Agnes, in Cornwall;" drawn up by 

 Mr. C. principally from the noles of Mr. Buckland, with whom 

 he examined them. Tile authors were in almost every instance 

 strongly tempted to regard the elvans, as the rocks forming 

 those veins are provincially termed, as of contemporaneous 

 formation with the schistose rock which they traverse. In the 

 same volume is a " Notice of Fossil Shells in the Slate of Tin- 

 tagel," by Mr. Conybeare ; and the following additional papers 

 by him have been read before the Society, and will appear, 

 we presume, in the forthcoming part of its Transactions: — 

 " On a Substance contained in the Interior of certain Chalk 

 Flints:" "On the Comparative Fusibility of certain Rocks, 

 and the Character of the Results;" the experiments de- 

 scribed in this communication, were undertaken chiefly with 



