436 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Geological Societies. The list of his publications is long; they 
amounted to nearly sixty, and many of them have been translated 
into foreign languages. 
‘Mr. Fox was particularly notable as a mineralogist ; not one 
who contemplated a mineral as a dry and dead subject of chemical 
or geometrical disquisition, but who took it as a centre of various | 
interests, coupled with questions of physics, of statistics, of geo- 
graphy, and even of personal character. Nowhere do I recollect to 
have passed more charming hours than in hearing his elucidations 
of a drawer or two of mineral specimens from his choice little 
cabinet at Penjerrick.” * 
Mr. Fox was the last survivor of the original founders, in 1814, 
of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, the first provincial 
association devoted to the advancement of geological knowledge. 
He was also one of the founders of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic 
Society; and at the time of his death was one of the oldest fellows 
of the Royal Society. He was one of the local secretaries of the 
British Association when that learned body paid its first visit to 
Plymouth, in 1841. 
In 1814 Mr. Fox married Maria, fourth daughter of Robert 
Barclay, of Bury Hill, and with her visited France, then just 
opened after the long war to English visitors, and made acquaint- 
ance with some of its most distinguished men. An economist of 
time, his scientific pursuits were not allowed to interfere with his 
duties towards his family and his fellows. A British School had 
his constant support and frequent personal attention for nearly 
seventy years; and he was an office-bearer of the British and 
Foreign Bible Society for more than sixty years. The consulship 
for the United States, to which post General Washington had 
appointed his father for the West of England, his mercantile 
concerns, and the fatherly care of the poor, for whom he acted as 
guardian for a long period, also claimed his attention. 
When a boy he wrote an essay on Liberty, a theme given to him 
by his mother. The lad’s early opinions became the matured con- 
victions of the man. In 1825 he wrote in the “Times” in favour 
of relieving Roman Catholics from the legal disabilities imposed on 
them. In 1852 he went to Lisbon to present to the Queen of 
Portugal an address from the Society on the subject of slavery. 
He was accompanied by the late John Candler, who visited Brazil, 
* Professor Warington Smyth, F.R.s. 
