XX PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



After his election to the Woodwardian Professorship he went to 

 Freiberg, and studied under Werner for about a year. Upon his re- 

 turn to Cambridge he pubhshed a syllabus of a course of lectures on 

 Geology and Mineralogy ; but it would appear that he never obtained 

 a class. It has been supposed that he was discouraged by those then 

 in power, and who entertained no favourable opinion of such studies. 

 However this may have been, Mr. Hailstone never lectured as AVood- 

 wardian Professor ; and this from no want of zeal on his part, for he 

 was much attached to geology, as his many additions to the Wood- 

 wardian Collection at Cambridge, and his various journeys in this, 

 and other countries, sufficiently testify. 



Mr. Hailstone was well-versed in general science, and esteemed as 

 a mathematician. Even in his declining years he studied works of 

 high modern analysis. He was the earnest and untiring promoter of 

 the progress of knowledge, as well among the poor as among those 

 placed in more fortunate circumstances. During the long period of 

 his residence at Trinity, his exertions were unwearied in sustaining 

 the high repute and usefulness of that distinguished College, and 

 upon his retirement to Trumpington the education of the poor of his 

 parish was his constant care. He was the chief contributor to the 

 funds of his parochial schools, and at his death they were liberally 

 endowed by him. 



Mr. Hailstone contributed to our Society a paper on the Geology 

 of Cambridgeshire, inserted in vol. iii. 1st series of our Transactions ; 

 and he left behind him many journals of travels and correspondence, 

 now in the possession of his nephew, the Rev. John Hailstone, of 

 Bottisham, near Newmarket, understood to be interesting, as show- 

 ing the state of Geology thirty and forty years since. He died at 

 Trumpington, on the 9th of June, 1847, in the 88th year of his age, 

 his mind clear until within a few hours of his decease. 



In Mr. George Cumberland we have to lament the loss of one 

 of our Honorary Members, of whom we have now only nineteen re- 

 maining. He was born in London on the 9th of December, 1752, 

 and was the grandson of Mr. John Cumberland, the inventor of the 

 process of bending ship-timbers by steam, in the experiments con- 

 nected with which this gentleman expended his whole fortune, about 

 5616,000. The patent for the invention is still in the Cumberland 

 family. In early life JNIr. George Cumberland attended as an hono- 

 rary student at the Royal Academy, and there became intimate with 

 Banks, Barry, Flaxman, Fuseli, and other distinguished painters and 

 sculptors of the time. He spent many years in Italy, and returned 

 to this country about 1792. 



Mr. Cumberland early turned his attention to the study of Geo- 

 logy, and was elected one of our Honorary Members in 1810. He 

 gradually formed an extensive collection, finally purchased and pre- 

 sented to the Museum at Manchester by Mr. James Heywood, M.P. 

 This collection is rich in crinoidal remains, fossils which had much 

 engaged the attention of Mr. Cumberland. He communicated two 

 papers to our Society, one on a Pentacrinus from Lyme Regis, a new 



