NOTES ON MEMOIR. xxxiii 



-- Extracted from the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. xviii, and 

 transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, Vol. ii. 



■•** See the Index to Prof. Sedgwick's Life, by J. W. Clark. There is a life of 

 Salter by Huxley {Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc, xxvi, pp. xxxvi — xxxix). Sedgwick 

 also coveted Salter as artist for his British Palaeozoic Rocks and Fossils, but the 

 scheme fell through {Life, ii 304); "his work was irregular and interrupted by 

 long absences " {ibid. 467). 



*^ No. 20, A notice, with the results, of a botanical expedition to Guernsey and 

 Jersey, in July and August 1837. No. 58, List of plants gathered during a short 

 visit to Iceland in 1846. 



2* No. 19, A revision of the Flora of Iceland [1870]. Linn. Soc. Journ. Bat., 

 XI, 1871, pp. 282—348. 



25 See his Life (Cambr. 1892) ch. 8, pp. 117—122. After his death, Babington 

 said (p. 121) : " He had himself personally known the Society from its foundation ; 

 had seen its early prosperity ; then its decline when its founders and early friends 

 left Cambridge ; then the long period of its obscurity when it was difficult to keep 

 it in existence ; and then the happy return of prosperity, resulting in a great degree 

 from Mr. Lewis's acceptance of the office of Secretary." W. M. Fawcett added 

 (p. 122) : "When he began, he (Mr. Fawcett) did not think there were more than 

 thirty members, and, chiefly through Mr. Lewis's exertions, the number was now 

 raised to about 300." The real increase was greater (p. 117), from eighteen members 

 in 1873 to 320 in 1890. 



^^ His father had a nursery garden at Cambridge, near to the present station. 

 His uncle, the late Thomas Ready, was gardener of Christ's. R. C. Ready 

 has been attached to the British Museum since 1860, and still (1895) goes down to 

 it, though he completed his eighty-fourth year in June 1895. In the same season 

 that he worked in my tower in the second court, striking moulds of seals from 

 charters which we carried down, drawer by drawer, from the 'treasury' (the 

 barred room over our entrance gateway), he also knocked at the doors of all college 

 charter rooms. In return for my help, he gave me a card framed and glazed, dis- 

 playing the seals most to my liking, either as works of art, or as bearing on college 

 history. This hangs now in the College Library. " He knew the late Professor 

 C. C. Babington very well indeed, and for a very long time." His son, William 

 Talbot Ready, is now (1895) a dealer in antiquities, ancient coins, English medals, 

 gems, etc., 55, Rathbone Place, W. 



2' In Babington's library hangs a speaking likeness of Mr. Corry, coloured from 

 an enlarged photograph. This, a birthday present, and two volumes of poems, rich 

 in promise, formed highly-prized mementos of his best-loved pupil. See A Flora 

 of the North- East of Ireland, including the Phanerogamia, the Gryptogamia, Vascu- 

 laria, and the Musciniae. By Samuel Alexander Stewart . . . and the late Thomas 

 Hughes Corry, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I.A., F.B.S. Edin., Lecturer on Botany in 

 the University Medical Science Schools, Cambridge; Assistant Curator of the 

 University Herbarium, etc., etc. Published by the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. 

 Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes 1888, cr. 8vo, pp. xxxvi, 331. In the preface is 

 some notice of Corry. P. viii: "Professor Babington, F.R.S., has from time to time 



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