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Evidence of the Affinity between the Dinosaurian Reptiles and Birds (Q. J. G. S. 

 1870). On the Classification of the Dinosauria, with Observations on the Dinosauria 

 of the Trias (Q. J. G. S. 1870). Triassic Dinosauria (' Nature,' 1870, p. 23). On the 

 Maxillae of Megalosaurus (Phil. Mag. 1870). (With Dr. E. P. Wright) On the 

 Fossil Vertebrata from the Jarrow Colliery, Kilkenny, Ireland (Roy. Irish Acad. 

 Trans. 1871). On Stagonolepis Robertsoni, etc. (Q. J. G. S. 1875). On the Evidence 

 as to the Origin of existing Vertebrate Animals (lectures, ' Nature,' 1876). The Rise 

 and Progress of Palaeontology ('Nature,' no. 24, 1881). The Coming-of-age of 

 the 'Origin of Species' (1880, Roy. Inst. Proc. 9, 1882). 



It may be truly said of Huxley that, although an antagonist to be 

 feared, and a vigorous hater of all shams, he was also a warm- 

 hearted and staunch friend, and one who never forgot a service 

 rendered to him. The influence of his writings and his scientific 

 labours will long outlive the memory of those who now mourn 

 his loss. 



Charles Card ale Babington, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, was born on November 23rd, 1808, at Ludlow. 

 He was a student at St. John's College, Cambridge, and graduated 

 in 1832. In 1861 he succeeded Prof. Henslow in the Chair of 

 Botany at the University. He retained his professorship until 

 his death, on July 22nd, 1895, but for the later years of his life 

 ceased to take an active part in the work of the Botanical School. 

 Prof. Babington attained to the highest position as a critical 

 British botanist, having an intimate and accurate acquaintance 

 with the flora of our islands, and was the first to carefully correlate 

 it with that of Europe. 1 



The best testimony of the value of his work is the fact that his 

 * Flora ' has passed through eight editions in his lifetime, and still 

 remains a standard work. In fossil botany his only contributions 

 are the determination of some plants from the peat of Cambridge- 

 shire. 



He 1 published ' A History of the Chapel of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge,' and contributed many papers to the publications of 

 the Cambridge Antiquarian and other Societies. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1835, but 

 never contributed any paper to its Quarterly Journal. 



Thomas James Slatter, whose decease we have now to record, 

 died at his house, ' The Drift,' Evesham, on August 1st, 1895, in 

 his 61st year. He was a geologist whose knowledge of the locality 



1 See Babington's ' Manual of British Botany ' ; the first edition appeared 

 in 1843, and the eighth in 1881. 



