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blane he went on pilgrimage to Archbishop Leighton's library. 

 Nor did man's lower works content him. "Affection dwells 

 in black and white the same."' Not Cowper only, but Henry 

 Martyn, Selwyn, Patteson, Mackenzie, Mackay of Uganda, 

 William Ellis of Madagascar, Dr Paton of New Hebrides, 

 drove this quickening truth home. And yet nearer ties drew 

 his thoughts to the mission field. Jani AUi of Corpus, the 

 Moslem missionary to Moslems, lured Henry Parker to India, 

 who thence followed Hannington to Africa and to the tomb. 

 And by Babington's hearthstone they first met. He was 

 spared the tidings of the late martyrdoms in China. His 

 sorrow for the loss would have been tempered with the joy 

 of triumph. But scribblers who backbite the dead, as rash 

 and vain — even as cowards — would have aroused unmixed 

 shame and wrath. To him the martyrs — then in will, now in 

 act — had come, in order to win a God-speed from Cambridge, 

 the teeming mother of missions, from John Eliot to Delhi 

 and East African brothers. 



His first book was a Flora of Bath (1834) the place of 

 his education, and afterwards of his marriage. Then followed 

 the Flora of the Channel Islands and of Cambridge ; a 

 Manual of British Botany (eight editions between 1843 and 

 1881 — this still holds the field); works on brambles and 

 countless articles on natural history and antiquities. Cam- 

 bridge owes to him an "Index of the Baker MSS." (1848, 

 in conjunction with three friends) ; "Ancient Cambridgeshire" 

 (2nd ed., 1883); "History of the Infirmary and Chapel of 

 the Hospital and College of St. John the Evangelist, 1874." 

 The work freely done for others will never be known. 



The Ray Club, Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Entomo- 

 logical Society, honour him as a founder. Throughout the 

 United Kingdom, whoever laboured to promote science, natural 

 or arehseological, turned to him for help — nut in vain. On 

 the 29th of November 1887 he addressed to the Ray Club 

 a pastoral. For many years the Club "included active field 

 Naturalists of various ages, who brought to our meetings the 

 results of their researches, and submitted them to the members 

 and their friends. This was of much use to those students 

 and collectors ; especially to such as were turning their 

 attention to Botany and Zoology, many of whom have since 

 become well known as Naturalists." .... 



