CHARLES BARON CLARKE 871 
Cambridge, Clarke was a member of Trinity, afterwards of Queen’s. 
He took the degree of B.A. in 1856, and was bracketed Third 
Wrangler in that year. He ene a Fellow of Queen’s College 
in 1857; was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn and appointed 
Mathematical Lecturer of his College in 1858; in 1859 he took the 
degree of M. 
At Camb ridge Clarke was one of a circle, which peering his 
friends Fawcett, Leslie Stephen, and Rigby, whose members held 
advanced economic views. His interest in political Pain con- 
tinued throughout his life, and found expression in his conversation 
and correspondence, and in occasional essays and pamphlets. His 
sympathies were wide ;. his knowledge was extensive; he stated his 
views fairly, and his conclusions clearly. Treating P paoooa as 
an i h 
lee a ne and a mountaineer, er ig ollege 
tions, paid 
Stephen records that during one of these——Reaster, 1865—he and 
Clarke made the ascent of the Pillar Rock in Wastdale. During 
his residence at Cambridge, Clarke paid at least two visits to Scot- 
land, on one occasion getting as far as Skye; he paid several visits 
to Switzerland, making ascents in the Alps, a ay t of these visits 
being in 1865; he also, in 1862, visited Made Durin ems , 
ire, and b 
Cambridge in 1865, in order to take up educational work in India, 
he had prepared a list of the flowering plants of Andover, his 
native Place. 
beeen. review and an equally interesting age rig in these pages 
at the time that it appeared.* At first attached to the teaching 
staff of ‘the Presidency College, Calcutta, Glarke was soon made an 
Inspector of Schools, and posted to the Eastern Division of Bengal, 
with his headquarters at Dacca. The work of an inspector, in- 
volving as it does continuous touring for a considerable portion of 
each year, provides ideal opportunities for the study of the vege- 
tation of the country traversed. Clarke made the most of these 
opportunities throughout his pair and supplemented them by 
visits to other districts and provinces whenever he could. In 
Kastern Bengal the most sara method of travelling is by 
* See Journ. Bot. 1867, 51; 1868, 215. 
