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The Eev. Leonard Blomefield (originally Jenyns) was the 

 son of the Rev. George Leonard Jenyns, of Bottisham House, 

 Cambridgeshire. He was born in London on the 25th May, 

 1800, and was sent to school at Putoey preparatory to going to 

 Eton in 1813. He graduated at St. Joha's College, Cambridge, 

 in 1822, and was ordained in the following year to the curacy of 

 SwafFham Bulbeck, in Cambridgeshire, to which living he was 

 presented five years later. Here he resided for 30 years, until 

 obliged to resign in consequence of his wife's health. 



Even as a schoolboy young Jenyns was a devoted lover of 

 Nature, collecting insects and studying birds and their habits in 

 his leisure, and devouring all the books on travel and natural 

 history he could meet with — a taste which he attributed in a 

 large measure to the influence of his uncle, Mr. Chappelow. 



In the midst of his parish work in Cambridgeshire, Mr. Jenyns 

 found opportunities of making collections of Insects, British 

 birds' eggs, crania of the smaller Mammalia, Land and Fresh- 

 water Shells, and Plants. 



He was the author of an excellent monograph on Cyclas and 

 Pisidium ; ' A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals,' which is 

 still considered at the present day a useful text-book; 'An 

 Account of the Eisbes collected during the voyage of the 

 Beagle,' a work undertaken on the special invitation of his 

 friend Mr. Darwin ; in 1816 appeared his ' Observations in 

 Natural History, with an Introduction on Habits of Observing, 

 and a Calendar of Periodic Phenomena in Natural History,' 

 and in 1858 his ' Observations in Meteorology.' In addition 

 to these works he contributed a number of papers to various 

 scientific societies, and maintained an active interest in all that 

 pertained to the study of Nature to the end of his life. 



Mr. Jenyns assumed the name of Blomefield in 1871, on suc- 

 ceeding to the property of Francis Blomefield, the historian of 

 Norfolk, with whom he was distantly connected. 



At the date of his death he was the oldest Fellow of this 

 Society, having been elected in 1822. He was an original 

 member of the Zoological Society (1826), of the Entomological 

 Society (1831), and of the Eay Society (1844), was elected 

 Fellow of the Greological Society in 1835, and joined the British 

 Association in the second year of its existence (1832). He was 

 the founder of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field 

 Club in 1855, of which he continued to be an active supporter 

 until quite recently. He had resided in Bath for nearly 40 years, 

 and died there on Sept. 1st, 1893, in his 93rd year. 



John Charles Boweing was the eldest son of the late Sir John 

 BowrLng, the eminent philologist and diplomatist, whose asso- 

 ciations with China and Siam are a part of our political history. 

 Mr. Bowring was for some time connected with the China trade 

 being a partner in the well-known firm of Jardine, Matheson 



