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year in which Huxley, Sir James Paget, and Lord Kelvin were also 

 elected, but he never took any active part in the affairs of the 

 Society. 



In 1860 he published his Flora of Cambridgeshire, in which the 

 distribution of the species through the different districts of the 

 county is traced out very carefully, and the changes in the vegetation 

 caused by the drainage of the fens are dwelt on. 



On the death of Professor Henslow in 1861, Babington succeeded 

 him as Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and held the chair up 

 to the time of his death, on the 22nd of July, 1895. His lectures 

 dealt mainly with organography and systematic botany, and were 

 not accompanied by laboratory work. They were discontinued for 

 several years before his death, and as years went on, the teaching 

 of botany in the University passed into the hands of the men of a 

 younger generation, with different ideals and different plans of work. 



J. G. BAKER. 



By the Ven. Archdeacon D. R. Thomas, F.S.A., Canon 

 of St. Asaph, Chairman of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. 



Of Professor Babington's eminence in other fields of science and 

 of literature, or of his high personal character, it is not my purpose 

 to write ; but only of his distinction as an archaeologist, and of his 

 long and valued services in connexion with our Cambrian Association- 

 It was in the year 1850 that Mr. Babington joined the Association, 

 when it was just emerging from its tentative stage of infancy and 

 beginning to launch out on its own responsibility. The journal, 

 the Archaeologia Cambrensis, which down to that year had been the 

 private venture of the editors, now became the property and the 

 acknowledged organ of the Association. The first Annual Meeting 

 he attended was the one held at Tenby in 1851, when he took part 

 in the discussions. In 1853, at Brecon, he was elected a member of 

 the General Committee, and in 1855, at Llandilo, he was chosen to 

 be its Chairman, and at the same time was placed on the small 

 Publication Committee of three. As Chairman of the Committee 

 it was one of his duties to give at the evening meetings a resumS of 

 the day's excursion, and to point out the chief objects of interest 

 visited, with their bearing on general, as well as local, archaeology. 

 The purpose of the resumS was twofold ; to enable those who had 

 been unable to accompany the excursions to follow their proceedings, 

 and to elicit a fuller discussion of the more important points than 

 was possible in the limited time available on the spot. Such a duty 

 required not only a wide and accurate knowledge of archaeology, 

 but also a thoughtful arrangement and a clear and ready expression ; 

 and so efficiently did he discharge this duty that for thirty years in 



