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cipally of lichens and mosses. In 1846 he published his 

 successful Hulsean Prize Essay entitled, The Infiuence of 

 Christianity in Promoting the Abolition of Slavery in Europe. 

 In the same year he was elected a Fellow of St John's 

 College. Immediately after this he started on a south of 

 Europe tour of several months, for the purpose of visiting 

 his parents at Messina, whither ill health had driven his 

 father. He also visited his uncle, Dr Strange, at Naples. 

 During these journeyings he made large botanical collections, 

 and spent much study on the Eoman antiquities of Italy. 

 On his return to Cambridge as a resident Fellow of St John's, 

 he simultaneously prosecuted literary and scientific investi- 

 gations. In 1849 he published Macaulays Character of the 

 Clergy Considered, in which he demonstrated the unfairness 

 of the picture of them drawn by the eminent English his- 

 torian. He also published a careful facsimile of the original 

 edition of Trattato utilissimo del henefcio di Giesu Christo 

 crucifsso verso i Christiani, attributed to Paleario, and pub- 

 lished at Venice in 1543, but the edition of whicli was nearly 

 destroyed by the Inquisition. Again, some fragments on 

 papyrus of the Orations of Hyperides were carefully edited ; 

 and as a resvdt of this labour, he issued three books on the 

 subject, much esteemed by classical scholars, namely, The 

 Oration of Hyperides against Demosthenes (1851), and For 

 Lyco'phron and Uuxenippvs (1853), and The Funeral Oration 

 of Hyperides over LeosfJtcnes (1858). By ap]»ointmcnt of the 

 jMaster of the Polls, he edited Peginald l'e(;ock's Jiejnxssor 

 of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergii, and two volumes of 

 Higdeii's Polychronicon. He held i\w. ollice of Disney Pro- 

 fessor of Archa'ology from 1865 for fifteen years, demon- 

 strating the valu(! of tlie study of Greek and Poman coinage 

 and fictile art f(u- the elucidation of history. During this 

 ])(;riod of his life he catalogued the Greek and English coins 

 of tbe Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as the classical manu- 

 scripts in tlie University IJljrary. He was also a frequent 

 contributor to Hooker's Journal of Botany, the Numismatic 

 Cli/ronicle, the Camhridge Jourual of Classical and Sacred 

 Philology, -.nuX tlie I'rocecdings <f fJic Svjfolh Institute. He 

 also d(;scri]jed tlie lic.lions for Se(;man's Botany of the Herald, 

 and Hfjoker's Flora of Nr/w Zealavd. 



In 18GG he removed his residence to the Pectory of 



