xc CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. 



succession he was re-elected to the position. To mark still further 

 their appreciation of his services the Association chose him to be 

 their President for the year 1881, when it met at Church Stretton, 

 a compliment which he acknowledged in his address to be peculiarly 

 gratifying, not only because of the special interest he felt in the 

 botany and archaeology of the district, but also because it was in 

 his native county of Salop.* Under the pressure, however, of 

 failing health, he was reluctantly compelled in 1885 to resign the 

 chairmanship which he had filled so long and well, and the Annual 

 Report of that year bore testimony to the onerous duties which 

 he had discharged with unfailing courtesy and with a breadth of 

 knowledge in archaeological subjects which had been of great 

 service to the Association ; and when finally he passed to his rest 

 in July, 1895, a resolution was carried in the following month, at 

 the Annual Meeting held at Launceston, expressive of the loss the 

 Association had felt in the death of one of its most learned members, 

 and of its sympathy with Mrs. Babington in her affliction. 



On looking back over the records of the discussions at the Annual 

 Meetings, and the witness they bear to his knowledge of general 

 archaeology, we find that the phase which appeared to have most 

 attraction for him was that of the ancient defences and fortifications 

 of the country, and it was on these that almost all his articles in the 

 Journal turned. Indeed, this line was foreshadowed in his article 

 on "Ancient Cambridgeshire," in the publications of the Cambridge 

 Antiquarian Society, reviewed in the Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1856, 

 and it was wound up in his presidential address at Church Stretton 

 on " The Classification of the Camps and Primeval Fortifications of 

 Wales." 



The list of his contributions to the Journal comprise : — in 



1857. "Gaervawr, and a supposed Roman Road near Welsh- 



pool." 



1858. "The Firbolgic Forts in the South Isles of Arran, Ireland." 



1861. "Ancient Fortifications near the Mouth of the Valley of 



Llanberis, Carnarvonshire." 



1862. " The Kjokkenmoddings of Denmark." 



1863. "The Hospital of St. Lawrence de Ponteboy, Bodmin." 

 1865. "Cyclopean Walls near Llanberis." 



1876. "An Ancient Fort near St. Davids." 



1879. "On the supposed Birth of Edward II. in the Eagle 



Tower of Carnarvon Castle." 



1880. "On several Antiquities in North Wales." 

 1882. " On the Circular Chapel in Ludlow Castle." 



* He was born at Ludlow, and his last contribution to the journal was on 

 " The Circular Chapel in Ludlow Castle." 



