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MULLINS, who only joined the Society in 1886. I have been 

 unable to learn the cause of his death, or his speciality in the 

 study of Natural History. 



Mr. Henry Lee, F.L.S. The Naturalist to the Brighton 

 Aquarium, died at the comparatively early age of sixty years. 

 He was more particularly known to scientific literati for his 

 entertaining work, entitled " The Octopus ; or the Devil- 

 Fish of Fiction and Fact." 



Rev. Churchill Babington, D.D., F.L.S. , passed away 

 on the 13th of January last, at the age of 6^. He was a very 

 eminent botanical scholar, as well as an excellent naturalist ; 

 and although he will probably be better remembered for his 

 classical and archaeological accomplishments and his skill as a 

 palaeographer, his researches in the fields of Zoology and 

 Botany were of no mean order. So long since as 1842 he 

 contributed to Potter's History of Charnwood Forest, an 

 Appendix on the Botany and Ornithology of that district, 

 following later on with a volume on the Birds of Suffolk, 

 which was published in 1886. To botanical students he was 

 known as an authority on Lichens, being a contributor on 

 that subject to Hooker's Flora of New Zealand. He will be 

 especially missed by those who had the pleasure of calling at 

 his charming rectory, and revelling amongst the treasures of 

 nature, which he in his kindly hospitality delighted to exhibit 

 to his guests. 



The Rev. John George Wood, MA., died on the 3rd of 

 March, at Coventry, after a brief illness, while on a lecturing 

 tour. He was born in London in 1827, and graduated at 

 Merton College, Oxford, being ordained in 1852. He was 

 for a time attached to the Seamen's Floating Chapel, and 

 was also Chaplain to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He, how- 

 ever, did not continue long in active clerical duties, abandoning 

 them for the, to him, more congenial sphere of writing and 

 lecturing upon Natural History subjects In this work he 

 was highly successful, and has probably done more to 

 popularize the study of Natural History among the masses 

 than any other writer of modern times. His " Homes without 

 Hands," being a description of the Habitations of Animals 

 classed according to their Principle of Construction ; his 

 " Insects at Home ; " his " Common British Insects : " 



