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from its foundation in 1838, and during the fifty-five years that he 

 had held that office, he had not only maintained the efficiency of the 

 Club, but the harmony which has always been its characteristic. I 

 am also respectfully to offer you the sincere condolence of the Club 

 on the grievous bereavement you have suffered, and to assure you 

 of the sincere sympathy of its members. 



Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 



St. Maey's Passage, Cambridge, 

 Oct 22, 1895, 



Dear Mrs. Babington, 



At the meeting of this Society held yesterday 

 the following Eesolution was proposed by the President and carried, 

 and I was instructed to forward to you a copy. Kesolved : " That 

 the members of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, at this their 

 first meeting held since the death of Professor Babington, desire to 

 express their sympathy with Mrs. Babington, and their sense of the 

 loss which they have sustained in the person of one who was an 

 original member of the Society, and one of its most zealous and 

 most distinguished workers." 



Believe me to be, dear Mrs. Babington, 

 Yours faithfully, 



T. D. ATKINSON, 



Son. Sec, Camb. Antiq. Soe. 



Cambridge Philosophical Society. 



Oct. 27, 1895. 



Dear Mrs. Babington, 



We desire on behalf of the Philosophical Society to forward 

 the following Resolution which was passed at our meeting to-day 

 (the first meeting of the Society since the death of Professor 

 Babington) : " That this meeting desires to place on record its sense 

 of the loss the Society has sustained by the death of Professor 

 Babington, and to convey to Mrs. Babington the expression of 

 their sympathy and condolence in her bereavement." 



The resolution was proposed by Professor Liveing, seconded by 

 Professor Hughes, and carried unanimously. 



We are, with deep sympathy. 



Yours very sincerely, 



J. J. THOMSON, President. 

 H. F. NEWALL, Secretary. 

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