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The Ptev. Churchill Babixgton, D.D., and John Percy, 

 M.D., F.K.S. By Andrew Taylor. 



(Read lltli July 1889.) 



The late Piev. Churchill Babington, D.D., was induced 

 to join our fellowship through the influence of Professor 

 Cardale Babington, his near relative. He for many years 

 acted with great assiduity as one of our local Secretaries. 



Churchill Babington was descended from a family for a 

 long time well known in the counties of Derby and Leices- 

 ter. His father, the Eev. Matthew Drake Babington, in- 

 cumbent of Thringstone in Leicestershire, was a graduate of 

 Trinity College, and an excellent scholar. He was, therefore, 

 capable of directing the home education of the son, who gave 

 early promise of future success, alike in classical study and 

 in natural history, especially in botany and ornithology. 



From the obituary contributed to the magazine of St 

 John's College, Cambridge, the JEagle, by Professor Babington, 

 and through whose courtesy I am privileged to quote this 

 and most of the following particulars regarding our deceased 

 Fellow, we learn that he joined that institution in 1839, 

 and graduated as a Senior Optime and seventh in the first 

 class of the Classical Tripos in 1843. He was elected a 

 member of our Society in the same year, about the same 

 time presenting to our Herbarium a large collection, prin- 



