NOTES ON MEMOIR. xxxi 



' Three papers by Babington on the Ray Club, dated 11 March 1857, 14 Dec. 

 1868, and 29 November 1887, contain earnest addresses to his mates; the first 

 and third give a list of members and associates, with an outline of their lot in life ; 

 the second and third, lamenting the decay of zeal, fan amain the lukewarm embers, 

 if it might be, into a blaze. Sedgwick's Life, ii 447, 19 May 1869: "In the 

 evening the Ray Club will assemble in my rooms. It is a melancholy thought that 

 this will be my last Club meeting, for the infirmities of old age compel me to resign 

 my place." 



Life of J. Clerk Maxwell (1884), p. 155 (1855) : '* Went with Hort and Elphin- 

 stone to the Ray Club, which met in Kingsley of Sidney's rooms. Kingsley is great 

 in photography and microscopes, and shewed photographs of infusoria, very beauti- 

 ful, also live plants and animals, with oxy-hydrogen microscope." 



Ibid. p. 168, 14 February 1856: "Yesterday the Ray Club met at Hort's. I 

 took my great top there, and spun it with coloured discs attached to it." 



Ibid. p. 294: "Bui if there is sufficient liveliness and leisure among persons 

 interested in experiments to maintain a series of stated meetings, to shew experi- 

 ments, and talk about them as some of the Ray Club do here, then I wish them all 



joy-" 



' Dytiscidae Darwinianae, in "Trans. Entom. Soc," iii 1841. His first 

 entomological papers (relating to Cambridgeshire) were published in 1829, before 

 he took his degree, in " Magazine of Natural History," i ii. None occur after 1844. 

 Lists in Hagen, "Bibliotheca Entomologica," i (1862), 22, 23. — (Information from 

 Dr. David Sharp). 



•0 Thomas Arthur P., of Em. B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859. In holy orders. Author 

 of " The flowering plants of Wilts, with sketches of the physical geography and 

 climate of the county. 1888." 8vo. 



^^ Selections from the Correspondence of Dr. George Johnston, Author of "A 



Flora of Berwick-on-Tweed." .... Edited by James Hardy LL.D Edinb. 



1892. 8vo. 



12 Founded by Prof. John Button Balfour, 17 March 1836; he died 11 Febr. 

 1884 (memoir in Hist, of the Berwicksh. Naturalists' Club, xi 218 — 226). 



'■'' In his library is a book now rare : " The Natural History of Dee Side and 



Braemar. By the late William Macgillivray LL.D Edited by Edwin 



Lankester, M.D. F.R.S. London: Printed for private circulation, 1855." The 

 manuscript was bought by the Queen. When Prince Albert was President of the 

 Association, the Presidents of sections (Babington among them) were invited to 

 Balmoral, and received copies : " This work, printed by command of the Queen, is 

 presented to Mr. C. C. Babington by H.R.H. Prince Albert." Editor's Preface, 

 p. v: " The list of plants have . . . been submitted to . . . Mr C. C. Babington, 

 of Cambridge." 



" Richard Owen's Life i 288. 



'* Leslie Stephen, Life of Henry Fawcett, 99: "He had been present at the 

 smart passage of arms (in 1860) between Professor Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce 

 at the British Association meeting in Oxford." Lord Monboddo's ape had startled 

 the Bishop, a beast then strange and skittish, but now, thanks to Huxley and his 

 brother-showman Ernst Hackel, tame (save with the hardened recusant Rudolf 



