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Cockfield in Suffolk, where he abode till his death on 

 January 3, 1889. By practising habits of early rising, it is 

 said, Babington carried on his varied studies as enthusiastic- 

 ally as during his Cambridge residence, at the same time 

 gaining a reputation as a model parish priest, and obtaining 

 the warm affection of his scattered flock. He was known as 

 one of the most zealous and tasteful of archffiological church- 

 restorers. His grounds gave many tokens of his botanical 

 studies, whilst the library showed itself as the home of one 

 who was at once a classic, scientist, and archaeologist. He 

 recently published a valuable work entitled, " The Birds of 

 Suffolk," in the Transactions of the Suffolk Institute, and 

 largely contributed to the Eev. Dr Hind's work on The Flora 

 of Suffolk, which is shortly to appear. The Rev. John 

 MacMurtrie informs me that he had correspondence with 

 Babington on conchological matters, which also he studied 

 minutely. 



Churchill Babington took the degree of D.D. in 1879, and 

 was elected an Honorary Fellow of St John's College in 1880. 

 He was a Fellow of the Linn can Society, V.-P.R Society of 

 Literature, Member of the Numismatic Society, Hon. Member 

 of the Historico-Theological Society of Leipzic, &c. 



He died of rheumatic fever in the 68th year of his age, 

 leaving a widow to mourn his loss. 



John Percy, M.D., F.Pt.S., the renowned metallurgist, was 

 a very active member of our Society during his pregraduate 

 student days, from 1836 to 1842, when, along with Edward 

 Forbes, Carpenter, and other eminent scientists, he took a 

 leading part at our monthly meetings. In our First Feport, 

 pp. 43-45, Mr Percy succeeded Mr Edward Forbes in the pro- 

 gramme of a meeting in 1836, w^hen he gave an account of an 

 excursion in the south-east of France, made with the express 

 purpose of examining the vegetation of that part of the Con- 

 tinent. Again, at the meeting of January 1837, Mr Percy 

 minutely described his plant-finds in the Jardin de la Mer de 

 Glace ; and in 1841 he presented a specimen of Phytelephas 

 or Tagna plant of South America, known by the name of 

 Vegetable Ivory. Percy contributed very largely to the 

 University Herbarium fine plant specimens collected by him 

 in Southern Europe. Indeed, the present writer, when arrang- 



