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men as Davies Gilbert and Dr. Paris, he took an active part in the 

 affairs of the lloyal Geological Society of that county, and of the 

 Museum at Penzance. Notes and specimens he collected largely ; but 

 a natural diffidence appears to have prevented his coming forward 

 prominently as an authority on scientific subjects. He contributed 

 only a few very brief papers to the Transactions of that Society, in 

 1818 : — one on the Coast West of Penzance, and on the Structure of 

 the Scilly Islands ; and another on the Geology of the Lizard dis- 

 trict. 



In 1832 he was appointed one of the Assistant Poor-Law Com- 

 missioners, and, after succeeding to his family property in the year 

 following, devoted himself mainly to the duties of a country gentle- 

 man and magistrate. Mr. Majendie, however, never lost his taste 

 for scientific subjects, and was frequently to be seen at our meet- 

 ings and at those of the Koyal Society, whilst nothing gave him 

 greater pleasure than to come with a few of his old-collected speci- 

 mens in his pocket to visit a friend and discuss with him some of 

 the Cornish minerals. 



Mr. Majendie married, in 1831, the eldest daughter of John Grif- 

 fin, Esq., the sister of Lady Franklin, but left no children. 



Sir George Clerk, Bart., of Penicuick, was born in 1787, was 

 educated at Eton, and became an honorary D.C.L. of Oxford. He 

 was called to the Scottish bar in 1809, and, soon afterwards entering 

 Parliament, occupied himself chiefly with political matters, and held 

 the offices successively of Under Secretary for the Home Depart- 

 ment, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, and Yice-President of 

 the Board of Trade. As early as 1812 he joined the Geological 

 Society ; but although an intelligent amateur of our own science as 

 well as of various branches of natural history, he appears never to 

 have taken an active part in the aff'airs of our Society. He died the 

 23rd of December, 1867. 



Sir Charles Lemo:n-, Bart., of Carclew, in Cornwall, was born 

 in 1784, and throughout his long life, while fulfilhng well the 

 duties of his county position, and for a great many years those of a 

 Member of Parliament, offered an excellent example of the salutary 

 influence which may be exercised by a friend and patron of science 

 and the fine arts. He became a Fellow of the Geological Society 

 in 1813, and afterwards took a prominent part in the installation 

 of local associations intended to promote scientific studies. He 

 became President of the Polytechnic Society, which holds its annual 

 meetings at Falmouth ; and his hospitable mansion at Carclew was 

 ever the rallying-point on those occasions for whatever scientific 

 visitors he could induce to penetrate so far to the west. He was 

 also President for some years of the Eoyal Geological Society of 

 Cornwall ; and when a quarter of a century ago the question of a 

 mining-school for Cornwall was mooted. Sir Charles Lemon was 

 foremost in endeavouring to bring it to a practical issue. But his 

 earnest wishes and his munificent offer of a donation, upon certain 



