Cardale Babington
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Charles Cardale Babington (23 November 1808 - 22 July 1895) was an English botanist and archaeologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851.
He was a nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Babington was the son of Joseph Babington and Cathérine née Whitter. He studied at St John's College,Cambridge obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in 1830 and his Master of Arts in 1833. He obtained the chair of botany at the University of Cambridge in 1861 and wrote several papers on insects. He married Anna Maria Walker on 3 April 1866.
Babington was a member of several scientific societies including the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ,the Linnean Society of London , the Geological Society of London, the Royal Society (1851) and he participated ,in 1833 in the foundation of the Royal Entomological Society.
He wrote Manual of British Botany (1843), Flora of Cambridgeshire (1860), The British Rubi (1869) and edited the publication Annals and Magazine of Natural History from 1842. His herbarium and library are conserved by the University of Cambridge.
[edit] References
- ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
- Allen G. Debus (ed.) (1968). World Who’s Who in Science. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Marquis-Who’s Who (Chicago) : xvi + 1855 p.
- Anthony Musgrave (1932). Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, with biographical notes on authors and collectors, Royal Zoological Society of News South Wales (Sydney) : viii + 380.
[edit] Further reading
- Desmond, R.G.C. (1970). "Babington, Charles Cardale". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 358-358. ISBN 0684101149.
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