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born at Ludlow in 1808, and died at Cambridge, July 22nd, 
1895. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 
took his B.A. degree in 1830, and proceeded to M.A. in 1833. 
In 1861, he was appointed Professor of Botany in the 
University of Cambridge ; he was elected a Fellow of his 
College in 1882. By the death of Prof. Babington, the 
Entomological Society of London has lost the last but one 
of its original members. Prof. Babington was best known 
as a botanist, and as the author of the " Manual of British 
Botany," which has passed through eight editions. He 
also wrote numerous other works on botanical subjects,; but 
at one time he was an active entomologist. Between 1829 
and 1844 sixteen entomological papers of more or less 
importance are attributed to him, but since that time he does 
not appear to have worked at the subject. 
Emile Louis Ragonot died in Paris on the 13th October 
last, aged fifty-two. He came to England in early life, and 
when first known as an entomologist was in a monetary 
exchange office in Liverpool. A few years later he returned to 
Paris and entered a bank, in which he subsequently became a 
partner. He devoted his attention chiefly to the Micro- 
Lepidoptera, especially the Phycitidce, of which he published 
a revision of the British species in 1885. His principal work 
was a monograph of the known species of the family, the 
first half of which formed Vol. VII. of the Romanoff Memoires, 
St. Petersburg, 1893. He also wrote numerous papers on 
Pyralida, Tortrices and Tineina. His amiable personal qualities, 
and his readiness to impart information, have already been 
referred to by Lord Walsingham at the November meeting 
of this Society. He took an active part in the affairs of the 
Societe Entomologique de France, of which he was President 
in 1885, and again in 1895. M. Ragonot was elected a 
Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1887. 
James Moktimek Adye died at Bournemouth on March 
30th last, at the early age of thirty-five. He was a son of 
the late W. L. Adye, Esq., J.P., D.L., of Merly, Wimborne, 
and was an active collector of British Lepidoptera. In the 
autumn of 1894, when collecting in the New Forest, he 
caught a cold, and neglected it ; this was followed by pneu- 
