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trustees ; and in 1831 he was interested, with Sir R. Murchison and 

 others, in the establishment of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, and took an active share in all the scientific 

 institutions of the metropolis. In fact he was ever busy, ever occu- 

 pied in promoting, both by his own exertions and by liberal pecuniary 

 assistance, whatever measures were necessary for the advancement of 

 science. Many individuals, as well as our own Society, can bear 

 witness to Mr. Greenough's liberality. From 1833 to 1835 he was 

 again for the third time President of this Society, and, as usual, 

 most active in promoting its prosperity, as well as harmony and good 

 fellowship amongst its members. 



One of his most favourite pursuits, and on which his fame will 

 mainly rest, was his skill in the construction of important physical 

 and geological maps. In consequence of the great progress made 

 in the investigation of English geology during the last twenty 

 years, a second and greatly improved edition of his Geological Map 

 of England and Wales was engraved in 1839, the copyright of 

 which has, with Mr. Greenough's accustomed liberality, been pre- 

 sented to this Society. But Mr. Greenough was not only a man of 

 science, he also possessed a remarkable taste, and a good eye and 

 feeling for colour, and it is generally admitted that the harmony 

 with which he has contrived to blend together the various colours 

 by which the different geological formations are distinguished is 

 not the least of the many merits of this Map. In 1852 he was 

 enabled, from the vast stores of information he had accumulated, to 

 lay before the Asiatic Society, in illustration of a memoir by himself, 

 a series of maps of Hindostan defining all the important elements of 

 the ten water-basins of that peninsula ; and in 1854 he exhibited be- 

 fore the Asiatic Society and at the last meetiog of the British Associa- 

 tion at Liverpool his geological map of India on a large scale, which 

 has since been published under the title of * General Sketch of the 

 Physical Features of British India.' With regard to this last pro- 

 duction, the gigantic effort of his declining years, I cannot better 

 do justice to the subject than by quoting to you a passage from one 

 of the Addresses of our former President, Sir R. I. Murchison, when 

 addressing the Royal Geographical Society as their President in 

 1853*, previously to the publication of this map : — 



" Let me now direct your attention to the last year's labours of 

 the veteran geographer and founder of the Geological Society of 

 London, my valued friend Mr. Greenough. Whenever the day 

 shall come — (and may it be far off!) — when the person occupying 

 this chair shall be called upon to treat of the labours of this distin- 

 guished man, then will there be poured forth an enumeration of his 

 works which will satisfy mankind that in this generation no indi- 

 vidual among us has accumulated greater stores of geographical and 

 geological knowledge ; and that no one has made greater efforts to 

 generalize detached data, and group them together for the benefit of 

 our race. On this occasion it only behoves me to speak of one of 



* Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. xxiii. pp. cvii. and cviii. 



