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full plenitude of his powers. In early life, through the 

 influence of Sir Henry De la Beche, he was attached to the 

 Geological Survey as Mining Geologist, and in this capacity was 

 the author of some valuable memoirs, especially on certain 

 mining districts in Wales and Ireland. In 1851, when the 

 School of Mines was established in Jermyn Street, he was 

 appointed lecturer on mining and mineralogy ; and the Professor- 

 ship of mining in the Eoyal College of Science, South Kensington, 

 he retained to the day of his death. Sir Warington Smyth held 

 for a long period the important office of Inspector of the mineral 

 property of the Duchy of Cornwall, and also that of Chief 

 Mineral Inspector to the Crown, through which he became 

 intimately connected with the mining interest in Cornwall. 

 During a portion of each year, he usually resided at Marazion, 

 where he was much respected, both in that town and at Penzance ; 

 so much so that he was one of the four gentlemen selected by 

 the Town Council of Penzance as the first to have their names 

 inscribed on the roll of Preemen of that borough. He was for 

 more than thirty years a member of the council of the Geological 

 Society of London, having filled successively the offices of 

 Secretary, President, and Foreign Secretary. He also had a 

 seat on the council of the Koyal Society on several occasions, 

 and was President of the Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall. 

 He had an intimate acquaintance with the geology and miner- 

 alogy of the western counties, in which he took much interest, 

 as shown in his papers on Cornish mining. He also rendered 

 valuable services to the mining community in connection with 

 various International Exhibitions, especially those of 1851 and 

 1862 ; but his most important labours extraneous to his ordinary 

 official work, were performed between 1879 and 1886 as Chairman 

 of the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines, and it is 

 generally understood that he was the principal author of the 

 report. By the death of this distinguished mineralogist, the 

 nation has been deprived of one of its most active workers in 

 science, and it will be difficult to replace him in the particular 

 branches which he had made especially his own. 



Local science has sustained a severe loss by the death of 

 Mr. Thomas Cornish, of Penzance, a gentleman of considerable 

 attainments in natural history, and a contributor to our Journq,!. 



