George Simonds Boulger

“ Babington's interest in archæology was second only to his love of botany. The full journals which he kept throughout his life, and which were afterwards published {Memorials, Journal, and Botanical Correspondence, Cambridge, 1897) , are, like those of Ray, half botany, half archæology. To the publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, of which he was in 1840 one of the founders, he contributed more than fifty papers (op. cit. pp. 453-4) ; and having joined the Cambrian Archæological Association in 1850, he acted as chairman of its committee from 1855 to 1885. ”

“ In 1871 Babington practically founded a cottage home for orphan girls at Cambridge. In 1874 he published the ‘History of the Infirmary and Chapel of the Hospital and College of St. John the Evangelist at Cambridge,’ while the successive editions of the ‘Manual,’ numerous papers, and his journal showed that his interest in botany, and especially in brambles, continued unabated until the end. From 1886 to 1891 Babington annually visited Braemar. He died at Cambridge on 22 July 1895, and was buried in Cherry Hinton churchyard. ”

“ He soon after was appointed lecturer on botany at the London Hospital medical school, and then professor of botany at the London Institution and at King's College, and professor of botany and materia medica to the Pharmaceutical Society. ”