Biographical Notice of Dean Conybeare. 65 
taining the election of Mr. Conybeare as a corresponding mem- 
ber of the Institute for Geology. Nor must it be supposed that 
this excellent man neglected his sacred duties whilst storing his 
mind with the richest treasures of geological research, as it was 
ing his residence at Sully that he delivered, gratuitously, at 
the request of his friend Dr. Prichard, a course of theological 
lectures at Bristol College, of which institution he had become ~ 
a visitor. ge 
In 1836 he left Sully and went to Devonshire, having present- 
ed himself to his family living of Axminster, and, whilst there, 
preached, at the request of the authorities of the University of 
Oxford, the Bampton Lecture for 1889. The living of Axmins- 
ter he resigned after a few years, on being called by his friend 
Bishop Copleston to the care of the Cathedral of Llandaff. Here 
he continued zealously to carry on the good work of restoration 
which had been commenced by his predecessor Dean Bruce 
ight; and, as at all times in his life, he was ever ready to 
distribute the rich and varied stores of his mind for the benefit 
of his fellow-men in whatsoever station of life they might have 
en. This venerable, much-loved man, and admired philoso- 
pher, left Llandaff to attend the death-bed of his eldest son, and, 
whilst pausing in his return at the house of another son, was 
stricken with pulmonary apoplexy, and died on the morning of 
the 12th of August, after an illness of only three hours, in the 
Ist year of his age. 
uch is the general picture of the life of a truly estimable 
man; and I shall, now add to it a very brief notice of his most. 
characteristic works, premising, however, that, even before the 
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