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and Recent Mollusca. He prided himself also on being the first to 

 introduce glass-topped boxes for the preservation of delicate speci- 

 mens. He would appear occasionally at a scientific meeting, 

 when there was a discussion on flints, in which he took an 

 especial interest ; and for several years he successively attended the 

 anniversary meetings of the Geological Society, then held at Somerset 

 House, and argued at length, with great fluency, and in loud 

 tones, about the management of the Society's affairs. While his 

 speeches contained, at times, matter well deserving of discussion, his 

 manner too often was aggressive and needlessly offensive ; and this 

 want of tact was displayed in some of the critical remarks he introduced 

 into the journals he edited. From these and other causes Charlesworth 

 came gradually to lose position and friends. Starting, as he did, so 

 full of promise, with ability of a high order and much enthusiasm, it 

 is sad to think how in later years he neglected his talents and misused 

 his opportunities, for the work of his early years, though not great, is 

 sufficiently important to form an enduring contribution to the literature 

 of geology. 



LEONARD BLOMEFIELD (JENYNS). 

 Born 1800. Died September i, 1893. 



THE last of Darwin's associates in the preparation of " The 

 Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle,'" has passed away 

 in the person of the Rev. Leonard Blomefield (formerly Jenyns), who 

 contributed the section on the fishes. He was the youngest son of 

 the late Rev. George Leonard Jenyns, of Bottisham Hall, Cambridge- 

 shire, and for many years had resided at Bath. He graduated at 

 Cambridge, and his first paper on the Ornithology of Cambridgeshire, 

 was read before the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1825. 

 Between that year and 1833 he also contributed to the Transactions 

 of the same Society papers on the reptiles of Cambridgeshire, the 

 habits of the natterjack toad, a mite parasitic on slugs, a swarm of 

 flies, and on the British species of Cyclas and Pisidium. In 1834 he 

 presented a report on " The Recent Progress and Present State of 

 Zoology " to the British Association, and in the following year he 

 published at Cambridge his well-known " Manual of British Vertebrate 

 Animals." Eleven years later he also published another small work, 

 entitled "Observations in Natural History : with an Introduction on 

 habits of observing, as connected with the study of that Science. 

 Also a Calendar of Periodic Phenomena in Natural History." He 

 was especially devoted to field observations, and during the last fifty 

 years made many contributions to scientific literature, his last being 

 a Presidential Address to the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Field Club in 1892. Both in this Club and in the Bath Institution, Mr. 

 Blomefield took the deepest interest, and the Institution is indebted to 



