Ix CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. 



1861, we find him presiding over the same section. For the 1862 

 meeting at Cambridge he was one of the local secretaries. For 

 many years he was the active secretary of the Cambridge Philo- 

 sophical Society ; and he was one of the founders of the Ray Club 

 for weekly meetings of field Naturalists in Cambridge, and was 

 always the most regular and active of its members. Besides, he 

 took part in, or corresponded with, a number of other societies with 

 kindred aims in various parts of the kingdom, and published more 

 than one local flora, and many articles on Natural History, as well 

 his "Manual of British Botany." As he was essentially a field 

 Naturalist, he was led to pay particular attention to systematic 

 Botany and Entomology, and his published work on Natural History 

 relates very much to the same, and he has left his mark in the 

 University by the care and labour he bestowed on the Herbarium. 

 Such a collection, from the perishable nature of its material, cannot 

 last for ever, but Babington did all that labour of love could do to 

 render it perennial and hand it down in the best condition for the 

 use of future generations. Perhaps some day Systematic and Field 

 Botany, of which Henslow made such an admirable educational 

 instrument, will be revived amongst us. 



Babington was, however, no one-sided man ; he had other 

 pursuits besides those which I have mentioned, and the same 

 method and discrimination which he shewed in one pursuit were 

 conspicuous in the others. It is only with that one side of his life 

 and character which bore most distinctly on his official position 

 that I have proposed to deal, because I feel that his influence in the 

 promotion of Natural Science here had been very real and effective 

 at a time when there was no outward encouragement given to such 

 pursuits, and because that influence was so modestly exercised that 

 it escaped general observation, and runs the risk of being entirely 

 forgotten, as soon as the generation which knew pre-scientific Cam- 

 bridge shall have passed away. G. D. L. 



By the Rev. H. C. G. Moule, D.D. 

 {Reprinted from the ^^ Recoi'd" August 9th 1895.) 



The Record of last week contained a brief notice of Professor 

 C. C. Babington's life, and an account of the funeral service. It 

 will not be thought superfluous, however, in the case of a man so 

 eminent for ability and knowledge, and so decided as a Christian 

 believer, to offer a few additional notices. For many years, up to 

 the last of the Professor's honoured life, it was my happiness to 

 know him, and to enjoy the great privilege from time to time of his 

 conversation. Hours which cannot be forgotten are lived again as 

 these words are written. "Their very memory is fair and 

 bright." 



It must be left to others to speak of Professor Babington's. 



