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Christ Church. Amongst those present were the Rev. G. 

 Philipps, the Eev. E. T. Stubbs, Col. Chandler (late treasurer of 

 the Field Club), the Rev. W. W. Martin (secretary of the 

 Field Club), the Rev. J. T. Medlycott Ramsey, Mr W. 

 Daubeny, Mr H. Mitchell (librarian at the Royal Literary and 

 Scientific Institution), Mrs Bosiey, Miss A. Cooper, and Miss 

 Cecil M. Riches. Wreaths were sent by Mrs Blomefield, "in 

 loving memory" ; the Rev. H. H. and Mrs Winwood and the 

 Misses Winwood, Lady Mary Hobart, Annie Cooper, and Cecil 

 M. Riches, "in loving and respectful memory" the Rev. E. T. 

 Stubbs, "in affectionate memory "from Gladys Philipps, Mrs 

 Boycott, Miss Boycott, Miss Margaretta C. Norman, and Miss 

 Jeffes. Mr Roger Jenyns, Miss Collins, and "in affectionate 

 memory of their Founder and President of the Bath Natural 

 History and Antiquarian Field Club " Messrs Ealand were 

 the undertakers. 



The death, in his ninety-fourth year, of the Rev. Leonard 

 Blomefield is an event of more than local interest, since it is 

 the loss to the scientific world of the oldest naturalist in 

 England, if not in Europe. Though, as he himself has told us, 

 in the Chapters of his Life, he had never travelled beyond his 

 native land, his name and reputation had obtained European, 

 if not world-wide fame, through his scientific attainments and 

 painstaking and accurate researches, no less than by his 

 literary works, which are veritable storehouses of information 

 on the subjects of which they treat. For thirty years of his 

 life he discharged, with singular zeal and fidelity, the duties of 

 a parish priest in Cambridgeshire, only resigning the living 

 when compelled to do so by the health of his wife. After a 

 brief sojourn in the Isle of Wight for the same reason, he 

 came to Bath in the autumn of 1850; and, if we except light 

 pastoral work and occasional clerical duty for friends, the 

 whole of his later life has been mainly devoted to his favourite 

 pursuit — the study of natural history in its various branches. 

 He was, if we may use the expression, a born student ; he had 

 an innate love of nature ; and as he was born so he died, still a 

 student, ever anxious to increase his knowledge and to impart 

 to others that which he had himself gained by years of diligent 



