XXXVl PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



tem23eratiire and other atmospheric conditions of that salubrious 

 resort, and by experiments on ozone and the usual meteorological 

 elements in comparison with another series in Oxford. By this 

 connexion with Devonshire he was induced to join the Association 

 in that county for the advancement of Science, Literature, and Art; 

 and one of his latest public addresses was delivered to that body, as 

 President, in 1865. In his whole career Dr. Daubeny was full of 

 that practical public spirit which delights in cooperation, and feeds 

 upon the hope of benefiting humanity by association of men. When 

 the British Association came into being at York in 1831, Daubeny 

 alone stood for the Universities of England, and, so standing, boldly 

 invited that body to visit Oxford in 1832. Quce nisi fecisset, it is 

 not at all clear that the then growing nestling would ever have 

 reached maturity. In 1856 he became President of the Association, 

 at Cheltenham, in the country of his birth, amidst numerous friends, 

 who caused a medal to be struck in his honour — the only occurrence 

 of this kind in the annals of the Association. The same earnest 

 spirit was manifested in all his academic life. Ko project of change, 

 no scheme of improvement in University examinations, no modi- 

 fication in the system of his own college ever found him indifferent, 

 prejudiced, or unprepared. On almost every such question his 

 opinion was formed with rare impartiality, and expressed with as 

 rare intrepidity. Firm and gentle, prudent and generous, cheerful 

 and sympathetic, calm amid jarring creeds of contending parties — 

 the influence of such a man on his contemporaries for half a century 

 of active and thoughtful life fully matched the effect of his published 

 works. His latest labour was to gather his ' Miscellaneous Essays' 

 into two very interesting volumes ; and then 



" multis iUe bonis flebilis occidit," 



at midnight of Thursday, December 12, 1867. 



His remains are to be laid in a vault adjoining the walls of Mag- 

 dalen College Chapel, in accordance with his own expressed wish, 

 " that he might not be separated in death from a society with 

 which he had been connected for the greater part of his life, and 

 to which he was so deeply indebted, not only for the kind coun- 

 tenance and support ever afforded him, but also for supplying him 

 with the means of indulging in a career of life at once so con- 

 genial to his taste and the best calculated to render him a useful 

 member of the community." 



Among our losses of the past year are some of the very oldest 

 Eellows of the Society, men who, although they appeared but httle 

 among us, had played a most useful part in the formation of the 

 first nucleus of friends of geological science. 



Among those, Mr. Ashtjest Majendie, of Hedingham Castle, in 

 Essex, who died on the 7th October last, at the ripe age of 83, had 

 interested himself up to the last in our pui^suits. Somewhat deli- 

 cate of constitution in early life, he passed some years in the south 

 of Cornwall, and, having the good fortune to be associated with such 



