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meetings of Societies, where his original fluency as a speaker never 

 deserted him, and where he would propound geological puzzles, or 

 descant on the origin of flint, as was lately the case at the Yictoria 

 Institute. Quite recently, indeed, he was in the habit of attending 

 the meetings of that Society and participating in their discussions. 

 By this time he had retired to Saffron "Walden, only occasionally 

 coming to London; and when a prisoner through illness, his boxes 

 of fossils and his pamphlets and manuscripts of all descriptions used 

 to be heaped around his bed, almost filling up the room. A friend 

 estimated that there was a ton and a half of flint fossils in that 

 apartment at the time of his death. This event occurred at Saffron 

 Walden on the 28th July, 1893, when Mr. Charlesworth only 

 wanted a few weeks of completing his 80th year. 



The Rev. Leonard Blomefield (originally Jenyns) was born in 

 London on the 25th May, 1800, being the son of the Bev. George 

 Leonard Jenyns, of Bottisham Hall, near Cambridge. He received 

 his education at Putney, at Eton, and at St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, graduating in 1822. Young Jenyns was at all times an 

 ardent naturalist, and used, when a boy, to have rare birds sent to 

 him in London from the family estate at Bottisham. He was Charles 

 Darwin's senior by ten years when they hunted butterflies together 

 in the adjacent fen, and his early collections are in the museum of 

 the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He held the living of 

 Swaffham Bulbeck, in the same county, for at least thirty years. 



Mr. Blomefield was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 

 1822, and for many years distinguished himself in botany and 

 zoology. The ' Pishes of the Voyage of the ' Beagle,' ' written at the 

 express request of his friend Darwin, was one of the works which 

 gave him the most satisfaction. He was also interested in meteoro- 

 logy, and one of the founders of the Entomological Society. There 

 is no record of his having paid any special attention to geology, 

 but he was elected a Pellow of this Society in December 1835, the 

 certificate being signed by A. Sedgwick, J. S. Henslow, B. Mur- 

 chison, and W. Clift. He wrote a memoir of Prof. Henslow some 

 years afterwards. In 1871 the surname and property of Prancis 

 Blomefield, the celebrated historian of Norfolk, devolved upon 

 Mr. Jenyns, who made Bath his residence during the later years of 

 his life. He was the founder and first President of the Bath 

 Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, and the donor of the 

 Jenyns Library, a gift including his Herbarium of British Plants, 



