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pilgrimage to Archbishop Leighton's library. Nor did man's lower 

 works content him. ' Affection dwells in black and white the same.' 

 Not Cowper only, but Henry Martyn, Selwyn, Patteson, Mackenzie, 

 Mackay of Uganda, William Ellis of Madagascar, Dr. Paton of New 

 Hebrides, drove this quickening truth home. And yet nearer ties 

 drew his thoughts to the mission field. Jani Alii of Corpus, the 

 Moslem missionary to Moslems, lured Henry Parker to India, who 

 thence followed Hannington to Africa and to the tomb. And by 

 Babington's hearthstone they first met. He was spared the tidings 

 of the late martyrdoms in China. His sorrow for the loss would 

 have been tempered with the joy of triumph. But scribblers who 

 backbite the dead, as rash and vain — even as cowards — would 

 have aroused unmixed shame and wrath. To him the martyrs — 

 then in will, now in act — had come, in order to win a God-speed 

 from Cambridge, the teeming mother of missions, from John Eliot 

 to Delhi and East African brothers. 



His first book was a "Flora of Bath (1843)," the place of his 

 education, and afterwards of his marriage. Then followed the 

 "Flora of the Channel Islands and of Cambridge ;" a "Manual of 

 British Botany" (eight editions between 1843 and 1881 ; this still 

 holds the field) ; works on brambles and countless articles on Natural 

 History and Antiquities. Cambridge owes to him an " Index of the 

 Baker MSS." (1848, in conjunction with three friends); "Ancient 

 Cambridgeshire" (2nd ed. 1883); "History of the Infirmary and 

 Chapel of the Hospital and College of St. John the Evangelist, 

 1874." The work freely done for others, will never be known. 



The Kay Club, Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Entomological 

 Society, honour him as a founder. Throughout the United King- 

 dom, whoever laboured to promote Science, Natural or Archaeo- 

 logical, turned to him for help, not in vain. On the 29th of 

 November 1887, he addressed to the Ray Club a pastoral. For 

 many years the Club " included active field Naturalists of various 

 ages, who brought to our meetings the results of their researches, 

 and submitted them to the members and their friends. This was 

 of much use to those students and collectors ; especially to such as 

 were turning their attention to Botany and Zoology, many of whom 

 have since become well known as Naturalists. . . . 



" The Club is not performing its original functions, nor is it even 

 a social meeting of those interested in Natural Science. The present 

 members do not think it worth while to act as the early members 

 did : viz. to look upon the meetings of the Ray Club as engagements, 

 and not accept invitations to parties on those days. If it is likely 

 that this is to continue, and I fear that that is the case, it seems to 

 me that the Club has run its course. The older members can look 

 back upon the time when important discoveries in Science were 

 mentioned at its meetings before they had been known to the 

 scientific public elsewhere, or even here. Now nothing of the kind 

 takes place or is expected. . . . 



