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is preserved in a bust by Westmacott in the Hall of Pembroke Col- 
lege, Oxford. 
Sir Joun Sr. Ausyn, who died during the last year, was one 
of the founders and early Vice-Presidents of the Geological Society, 
and was among its most firm and valuable friends and supporters at 
that perilous moment of its existence when the struggles and op- 
position which attended its first establishment had nearly crushed it 
in the bud; he was also a liberal contributor to the supplies at 
that time requisite for its advancement. 
He subscribed largely also to the funds then raised for the publi- 
cation of Count Bournon’s crystallographic work on Carbonate of 
Lime, and for enabling Dr. Berger to undertake his tours in Corn- 
wall, preparatory to his geological description of that county. 
The meetings held for the purpose of forwarding Count Bour- 
non’s work by some of the most distinguished mineralogists of that 
day, when collections in geology were rare, was one of the steps that 
brought together our first founders: many of them were till then 
strangers to each other, and being thus accidentally introduced, they 
resolved from thenceforth to cooperate for the furtherance of objects 
in which they felt a common interest, and became the germ of the 
Geological Society. 
Sir John St. Aubyn was at this time occupied, like his friends 
Sir Abraham Hume and Mr. Greville, in making large and costly 
additions to his cabinet of simple minerals, the nucleus of which 
consisted of the specimens he had purchased of Dr. Babington in 
the year 1799, and which are described by Babington in his cata- 
logue (one vol. 4t0) published in the same year. These specimens 
had previously been the property of Lord Bute. 
The position of his seat at Clowance, in the centre of the greatest 
mining district of Cornwall, afforded facilities for acquiring the most 
choice productions of that great repository of mineralogical trea- 
sures, and of these facilities he assiduously availed himself during 
many years. His other seat on the picturesque granitic pinnacle 
of St. Michael’s Mount in the bay of Penzance (the Ictis of Dio- 
dorus, from whence the Romans exported tin to Gaul), placed him in 
another position of high geological and mineralogical advantages ; 
the granite veins that intersect the killas at the base of this classic 
mountain being among the first described and most instructive in- 
