xlviii CHARLES CAEDALE BABINGTON. 



Frrnn Prof. G. D. Liveing, F.R.S. 



Pension de Bel Oiseatt, 



FiNSHAUTS, Switzerland, 



July 25, 1895. 



.... I cannot let the sad announcement which I have seen 

 to-day in Tuesday's Times pass without writing a line to assure you 

 of my sympathy. Professor Babington had well passed the usual term 

 of human life, but however well we mayh ave been prepared for the 

 event, the separation after all comes as a shock, and to you on whom 

 he has been for some time so much dependent, his departure will 

 leave a great gap. I cannot help looking back to the time, more than 

 forty years ago, when I first made his acquaintance. He was then 

 the central figure amongst those in Cambridge who took delight in 

 Natural History, and his simple character and keen interest in Nature 

 were very attractive to younger men who had similar likings. He 

 certainly did more in my time than anyone else to promote the 

 study of Natural Science in the University, and I, who have lived 

 through many changes, can perhaps appreciate better than most 

 how much the cause of Natural Science owes to him. Such a one 

 cannot pass away without our recalling how much he has done in 

 his time. . . . 



Frrnn Alfred Fryer, Esq. 



Chatteeis, June 3, 1895. 



.... I did not like to trouble the noble Professor with my 

 small botanical affairs more than was absolutely necessary. . . . 

 The greater part of the valuable instruction he so kindly gave me, 

 was on the rare occasions when I visited the Herbarium. Then I 

 learned to love and esteem the goodness and greatness of the man, 

 even more than I valued the teaching of the greatest living authority 

 on British Botany. This feeling of personal regard was common to 

 many of the botanists who consulted the Professor in their difficulties. 

 I find traces of it constantly shewing in letters from several corres- 

 pondents. A photograph of the Professor has been over my mantel- 

 piece for some twenty years. 



From Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S. 



Magdalene College, Cambridge, 

 Oct. 30, 1895. 



.... At the desire of the members of the Ray Club, meeting 

 to-night for the first time this term, I write to express their very 

 deep sense of the loss which the Club has sustained by the death of 

 its oldest and last surviving original member. They feel very 

 strongly the indebtedness of the Club to the late Professor Babing- 

 ton, who, until incapacitated by ill-health, had been its Secretary 



