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at Birmingham, was interred in the church-yard near the west end 
of the beautiful Norman church of St. Peter, in Northampton, which 
stands on the Oolite formation. He had often expressed a wish to 
be buried in this formation, on which he was born and educated, 
and the history of which he had so much elucidated. A monument 
will be erected to his memory in St. Peter’s Church by subscription 
of members of the Geological Society of London. 
It was not the least of the services which have been rendered to 
our science by Mr. Smith, that he was during many years the 
geological preceptor of his accomplished nephew Mr. John Phillips, 
in whom he has bequeathed to us a pupil, who has shown, by pub- 
lications of the highest order in various departments of Geology, 
the soundness of the instructions received from his affectionate 
uncle. 
Mr. Davies GILBERT was one of the earliest members elected 
into this Society, at its formation in 1808. During two years he 
served as a Vice-President, and for six years was a member of our 
Council; and though he communicated no papers, he took a lively 
interest in all our proceedings, and was ever prompt on all public 
occasions to promote the welfare and forward the great objects of 
our institution. 
His paternal name was Giddy: he was descended in the line of 
both his parents from very respectable families in Cornwall, and 
on the maternal side of Davies, allied to the noble family of Sandys; 
in 1817 he assumed the name of Gilbert, on succeeding to the pro- 
perty of his wife’s uncle, Mr. Charles Gilbert, of East Bourn, in 
Sussex. 
Having been privately educated in Cornwall, he became, in 
1785, at the age of eighteen, a gentleman-commoner of Pembroke 
College, Oxford, where, being of more studious habits and more ma- 
ture attainments than is usual with students of his age, he associated 
chiefly with the senior members of his College. Dr. Parr, writing at 
this time to the late master of Pembroke, speaks of Mr. Giddy, then 
twenty-three years old, as “the Cornish philosopher,” and adds, that 
“‘ he deserves that name.” 
To this College, as well as to the University, his affectionate 
and devoted attachment endured to his latest hour, and he became 
on several occasions a liberal benefactor towards improvements in 
