4^> I'KOOEEUliNCiS or TIIK 



.lollN OUADIAH AVkSTWOOU, M.A. 



Jiitliogni]))! by J. H. Maguii'c (Tph^wich Series). 

 Klfcttil a Follow, 18l'7. 



LiLi-vWiGO. 17'19-1829. 



AViitcr-colour sketch by Charles John Paget, 1828. 

 Elected an Associate, IJ^O. 



JosKi'ii AVooDs. 177G-18(jl. 



Lithograph : J. S. Colmtui delt. 1822. 



Elected a Fellow in 1801. 



AVii.LiAM TAnuKLL, F.E.S. 1781-1850. 



Lilliograph by J. 11. Maguire (Ipswich (Series). 



Mr. 11. T. Staiiitoii tlien moved the followiug resolution, viz. : 

 "That the thanks of the Society be given to the President for 

 liis excellent address, and that he be requested to allow it to be 

 printed." This having been seconded by Mr. John Hopkinson, 

 was carried unanimously. 



The Senior Secretary read the obituary notices of deceased 

 Fellows, as follows : — 



Obituauy Notices. 



Kev. CiiUKCUiLL Babinoton, was born at Eoeclifte, in Leices- 

 tershire, March 11, 1821, his father being the incumbent of 

 Thringstone in that county. His lather being an excellent 

 scholar, he received his early education chiefly at home, and after- 

 wards he entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, in October 

 1839, graduating as Senior Optime and seventh in the First Class, 

 Classical Tripos, in 1843. On March 30, 184G, he was elected 

 Fellow of his College, and immediately after he started on a tour 

 to the South of Euro])e, visiting his parents at Messina, as the 

 then state of his father's health had compelled them to take up 

 their abode there. He made large collections, both of plants and 

 of lioman antiquities, whilst in Italy, and on his return he settled 

 at Cambridge as resident Fellow and occupied himself with 

 literary and scientific pursuits. He must have already devoted 

 considerable attention to Lichens, for in the next year, 1847, he 

 determined those for the ' Flora Antarctica ' of Sir Josepli Hooker, 

 who therein speaks of Babingtou's profound knowledge of the 



