GODWIN-AUSTEN, ROBERT ALFRED CLOYNE (1808-1884), English geologist, the eldest son of Sir Henry E. Austen, was born on March 17, 1808. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 183o. He after wards entered Lincoln's Inn. In 1855 he brought before the Geological Society of London his paper "On the possible Exten sion of the Coal-Measures beneath the South-Eastern part of England." In this paper he supported the theory of the fresh water origin of the Old Red Sandstone, and discussed the rela tions of that formation, and of the Devonian, 'to the Silurian and Carboniferous. He was elected F.R.S. in 1849. He died at Shal ford House near Guildford on Nov. 25, 1884. Mt. Godwin Austen (K2 or Dapsang) 28,25o ft., in the Himalayas, is named in honour of his eldest son.