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After completing his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 Mr. Banbury visited Brazil and the River Plate, whither he was 

 attracted by the fact of his uncle, Mr. Fox, himself an ardent collector 

 of plauts, being Minister at Monte Video. This was followed by a 

 voyage to South Africa, where another uncle, General Sir George 

 Napier, was Governor of the Cape Colony ; and in 1853 he accompanied 

 Sir Charles Lyell to Madeira and Teneriffe. In all these countries 

 Sir Charles Bunbury made extended excursions, observing diligently 

 and collecting assiduously, though travelling as an amateur rather 

 than a scientific naturalist. The results of these journeys are full of 

 interest to the botanist, zoologist, and geologist ; they are published 

 in various scientific periodicals, and in a ' Visit to the Cape,' which 

 appeared in 1847. Especially valuable are the botanical observations 

 made in South Africa and South America, which deal with the broad 

 features of a vegetation known previously only in detail. They are 

 brought together in a volume published shortly before his death, 

 entitled ' Botanical Fragments.' 



It is, however, by his researches in vegetable paleontology that 

 Sir Charles Bunbury is best known as a scientific man. To this 

 subject his attention was more immediately drawn through his con- 

 nexion by marriage with Sir Charles Lyell, and his most valuable 

 contributions to it may be said to be ancillary to Sir Charles's inves- 

 tigations into the coal-measures of British North America and the 

 United States ; they appeared in the form of a succession of commu- 

 nications to the Geological Society of London between 1846 and 1861, 

 and are printed in that Society's Journal. He also wrote on the 

 Carboniferous flora of the Tarentaise, on the Anthracites of Savoy, 

 on the Jurassic flora of Yorkshire, on the Fossil plants of Nagpur 

 in the Deccan Peninsula, and of the Island of Madeira. Under this 

 head, too, should be recorded the great services he rendered to palaeon- 

 tology, by classifying and naming the Carboniferous fossils in the 

 Museum of the Geological Society (of which Society he was Foreign 

 Secretary from 1847 to 1853). This collection was for many years the 

 only one of its kind in England available to geologists or botanists. 



In 1844 Mr. Bunbury married Frances Joanna, daughter of Leonard 

 Horner, Esq., F.R.S., and sister to Lady Lyell, who survived him. 

 In 1860 he succeeded, through the death of his father, to the 

 baronetage, and removed from the Manor House of Mildenhall, to 

 the family seat, Barton Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, where he died 

 June 18th, 1886, leaving no descendants. He was a Fellow of the 

 Linnean and Geological Societies, as well as of the Royal Society, 

 into which he was elected in 1851. 



J. D. H. 



