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opinions which were drawn from an extensive view of his science 

 and of other sciences, than those which are now drawn from the 

 knowledge which, however acute, is after all only specialistic. Such 

 may be far more narrow, cramped, and even shallow than the older 

 science, which surveyed an ampler field. On higher points you have 

 left no doubt, — his breadth of sympathy with good men and good 

 works and, as might be added, his charitable estimate of all men 

 — I never heard a bitter or bigoted word from his lips — his joyous 

 religion, and his life and death in Christ. Every friend of his will 

 thank you that he passes from our sight yet not from our recollec- 

 tions, with such a record as yours. . . . 



From the Eight Rev. Bishop Selwyn, Master of Selwyn College. 



.... How sorry I am that I cannot attend the funeral of your 

 dear husband, as I am so far away from Cambridge. I should like 

 to have done so, both for my own sake, and because I think you 

 would have liked to have had one of my name doing honour to your 

 husband's memory. I shall be holding a Confirmation about the 

 time the service begins, and hope to remember you in my prayers 

 then. . . . 



From the Eev. A. M. W. Christopher. 



St. Aldate's Rectory, Oxford, 



Juli/ SOth, 1896. 



.... 1 Peter i 3 — 9 will cheer you in your mourning. How 

 near the Lord's coming and the resurrection may be ! Your beloved 

 one was spared long to you, but is now present with the Lord. The 

 tenderest cord which has tied you to this earth has been snapped, 

 but it is still round your heart, and the broken end is in your 

 Father's hand, drawing your heart towards Heaven. Very many 

 friends have been, and are still praying for you. May the love of 

 God be shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost with very 

 special power at this time. . . . May you know more and more by 

 experience of the " unsearchable riches " in Christ. Be sure of the 

 deep sympathy of my dear wife and myself. . . . 



From Herr Baron Sir Ferdinand v. Muller, F.R.S.* 



Melbourne, 



August nth, 1895. 



(To R. Irwin Lynch, Esq.) It is with deep sadness that I learn 

 of the venerable Professor Charles C. Babington passing away from 

 us, the Nestor of the Linnean Society for many years, the true and 

 acute investigator of the British Flora, from whose work I have also 



* Died 9 October 1896 {Times, 10 Oct. p. 9 col. 5). 



