WILLIAM .\LLPORT LEIGHTON. Ill 



during Capt. Penny's Arctic voyage, are published in Hooker's 

 Journal for 1852. The Lichens in the ' Flora of New Zealand ' 

 were also elaborated by Mr. Babington, w^ho is referred to later by 

 Dr. Hooker ('Handbook to N. Z. Flora,' p. 552), as ** a learned 

 man and most sagacious Lichenist." He is commemorated by 

 Mr. Berkeley in Strigula Bahiwjtonii, a lichen which he found at 

 Cambridge; and in two fungi, Psilopeziza Bahingtonii Berk., and 

 Agaricus Bahingtonii Blox. 



Although his published work was limited to lichens, Mr. 

 Babington had a good knowledge of flowering plants. With the 

 Eev. A. Bloxam, he prepared a list of the plants of Charnwood 

 Forest, Leicestershire, published in T. E. Potter's ' Charnwood 

 Forest ' (1842) ; and he contributed Leicestershire plants and 

 localities to Mr. Watson, for the ' New Botanists' Guide.' 



From 1848 to 1861 Mr. Babington held the chapelry of 

 Horningsey, near Cambridge. In 1866 he was presented to the 

 living of Cockfield, in Suffolk, where he resided until his death. In 

 1869 he married Matilda Whyte, the third daughter of the late 

 Col. John Alexander Wilson, K.A. In 1879 he took the degree of 

 D.D., and in 1880 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of St. John's 

 College. 



Mr. Babington recently published, through the Suffolk Institute 

 of ArchaBology and Natural History, a valuable book, entitled 

 * The Birds of Suffolk,' and he largely contributed to Dr. Hind's 

 forthcoming ' Flora of Suffolk.' 



A very severe illness nearly four years since greatly hindered 

 his work ; and although he recovered to a great extent, his strength 

 was never as before ; but his mental powers continued as vigorous 

 as ever until very near the end of his life. On January 3 he was 

 attacked by rheumatic fever, and died on Saturday, January 12, of 

 the present year, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. He was 

 buried at Cockfield on January 17. 



For much of the foregoing information we are indebted to the 

 kindness of Dr. Babington's cousin, our valued correspondent 

 Professor Babington. 



WILLIAM ALLPORT LEIGHTON. 



In the Rev. William Allport Leighton, B.A., who died at his 

 residence, Luciefelde, Shrewsbury, on the 25th February last, in 

 his eighty-fourth year, we lose another of the older race of botanists 

 among whom death has recently been so busy, who from time to 

 time have enriched the pages of this Journal with their contributions. 

 Mr. Leighton was descended from an old Shropshire family of that 

 name seated at Wattlesbery Castle, but, being of a younger branch, 

 his immediate ancestors were compelled to resort to agriculture and 

 commerce as a means of support. His father kept the Talbot 

 Hotel, Shrewsbury, a noted house in the old coaching days, and 

 William Allport Leighton was his only son, born May 7th, 1805. 

 He received the elements of his education at Mr. George Case's 



