XXX CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. 



ProfcBSor of Botany, 12th June 1861; married at Bath, 3rd April 1866; Fellow 

 of St. John's, Ist November 1882; died at 5, Brookside, 22nd July 1896; funeral 

 service in the College Chapel and at Cherry Hinton, 26th July. Cherry Hinton, 

 which he often searched with foreign botanists, is a fit resting-place for his remains. 

 The grave, to the north east of the Church, lies under the shade of three noble elms. 

 As he loved the ancient crosses of Ireland, relics of a day when her Church was 

 still free and a far-seen beacon of the Faith, a stately Irish cross, of grey Kemnay 

 (Aberdeen) granite, arrests the visitor's eye. The inscription is 



SACRED 



TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF 



CHARLES CARDALE BABINOTON, M.A. 



FELLOW OF ST. JOHN's COLLEGE 



AND PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. 



BORN NOVEMBER 23 1808; FELL ASLEEP JULY 22 1895. 



"Thou hast made him most blessed for ever." — Ps. xxi 6. 



In the College Chapel, on the right side of the screen as you enter, is a brass bear- 

 ing the inscription 



IN LOVING MEMORY OF 



CHARLES CARDALB BABINGTON 



B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833. 



PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, 12 JUNE 1861. 



FELLOW OF ST. JOHN's COLLEGE, 1 NOV. 1882. 



BORN AT LUDLOW, 23 NOV. 1808. 



DIED AT CAMBRIDGE, 22 JULY 1895. 



" Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : for the end of that man is peace." 



Ps. xxxvii 37. 

 The brass to his cousin Churchill is on the left side, just opposite. In the College 

 Hall hangs a portrait, an excellent likeness, by Mr. William Vizard of Brighton, 

 the gift of Mrs. Babington. 



2 This Mentor, handsomely bound in calf and religiously guarded, is of the 16th 

 ed., Lond. 1824. See Journal p. 3, 27 May 1826. Harford, Reminiscences of 

 Wilberforce, 47, 103 — 110 (long in vogue, in several versions. Madame de Stael, 

 after drawing a copy from the author by a broad hint, dubbed it Vaurore de 

 I'immortalite). 



^ The subscription list is given in the Cambr. Calendar for 1836 ; see also 

 Sedgwick's Life i 440, 1. 



* Cardale communicated to the Eagle memoirs of H. Cory Cory {prius H. C. 

 Eadie, d. 9 Jan. 1887) and of his cousin Churchill. 



5 Leonard Blomefield (formerly Jenyns) Chapters in my Life (Bath, 1889) 31, 



32 : "I have never been abroad, many of those who are in the habit of 



going abroad simply following the fashion, and remaining through life more or less 

 ignorant of their own country." 



^ In his first visit to Ireland in 1835 [Mag. Nat. Hist, ix 119 — 130) he was 

 accompanied by Robert Maulkin Lingwood (B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840) and John Ball, 

 both of Christ's (Mr. Britten). 



■^ See preface to Manual, first edition. 



