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friend who wanted to talk with him or anj- student who sought his 

 advice. Always on the outlook for additions to his knowlcdf2:e and 

 ever ready to impart to others what he had gained liimself, he 

 seldom cared to publish what he knew. Early in life he wrote an 

 account of his wanderings in the East, which appeared in 1854 under 

 the title of " A Year with the Turks." A few memoirs by him, 

 chiefly on mineral veins and mining localities, found a place in the 

 " Memoirs of the Geological Survey " and the " Transactions of the 

 Geological Society of Cornwall." He wrote also occasional articles, 

 such as that on Mining in lire's *' Dictionary," likewise a small but 

 standard Treatise on Coal and Coal-mining, of which the seventh 

 edition appeared last year. 



Up to within the last year or two of his life he showed but little 

 sign of advancing age. His step seemed as light, his eye as keen, 

 his mind as active as in his early days. But a weakness of the heart 

 began to make itself felt and forced him to abridge some of his more 

 fatiguing duties. He came to the evening gathering of the Royal 

 Society last summer, where he looked perhaps better than he had done 

 for some time previously, and talked in his old cheerful way. Xext 

 morning, 19th June, sitting in his library with his students' exami- 

 nation-papers before him, he quietly passed awa}', dying as he had 

 lived, in harness. 



It is not from the bulk, nor even from the intrinsic importance of 

 his published work, that the services of Sir Warington Smyth to the 

 cause of science are to be estimated. More efficient and widespread, 

 perhaps, than the influence of his writings, was that of his personal 

 example and teaching. Every year he sent forth a body of students 

 trained by him in the habits of careful observation, of cautious in- 

 duction, and of manly outspoken honesty which were his own dis- 

 tinguishing characteristics. These men, scattered all over the world, 

 carried with them the impress of his instruction, and no more un- 

 alloyed pleasure ever came to him than the tidings that his pupils 

 had done him credit in the career on which he had started them. 



Among the beneficent influences of his honoured life we Fellows 

 of the Geological Society count those not the least which he exerted 

 for ns during his long and intimate association with us. He 

 joined our body in 1845. For more than thirty years he served 

 on our Council, filling successively the offices of Secretary, Vice- 

 President, and President, and for the last seventeen years sitting at 

 the Council-table as Foreign Secretary. In every capacity in which 

 he could be useful to us he was ever ready to give us the benefit of 



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