Cardale Babington
Charles Cardale Babington ( born November 23, 1808 in Ludlow, † July 22, 1895 in Cambridge ) was a British botanist and archaeologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bab. " Babington is the author of a long time regarded as the standard work on the British Flora Manual of British Botany, whose first edition was published in 1843. After the death of John Stevens Henslow Babington in 1861, his successor in the chair of botany at the University of Cambridge.
Life and work
Charles Cardale Babington was the son of Joseph Babington (1768-1826) and his wife Catherine, née Whitter. Being trained as a doctor father was ordained after his birth. Due to his work as a clergyman Babington's family moved frequently, initially mainly, which was associated with frequent school changes Babington in the Midlands and later in Wessex. Eventually his father sat in Bath to rest. Babington visited from 1821 to 1823 at Charterhouse School and from 1823 to 1826 as a day boy a school in Bath. Together with his father he made numerous excursions, which aroused his interest in botany at an early stage. On October 11, 1826 Babington began his studies at St John's College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he became acquainted with the Professor of Botany John Stevens Henslow, and was in fact his assistant. 1830 made Babington his degree in Bachelor of Arts. On 1 June 1830 he was a member of the Linnean Society of London. 1833 graduated as a Bachelor of Arts Babington. In the meantime he had developed a strong interest for beetles and was in May 1833 the founding members of the Entomological Society of London.
1834 published Babington with the flora Bathoniensis, a collection of growing in the vicinity of Bath plant, its first botanical work. Together with John Ball, he visited Ireland in 1835 and wrote an article published in the Magazine of Natural History Report. On December 16, 1835, Babington member of the Geological Society of London. Babington was one of the founding members of the called on March 11, 1837 in life and after John Ray named Ray Club, from 1844, the Ray Society emerged. On April 28, 1838, he was elected its secretary, a post he held until 1893.
1839 followed with Primitiae Sarnicae Flora, a flora of the Channel Islands, Babington's second book - the origin of which two extended vacations were - the Babington spent with Reverend William Williamson Newboald. In 1841, he accompanied John Hutton Balfour on the Outer Hebrides. In 1842 he was associate editor of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. After nine years of preparation, in 1843 Babington's Manual of British Botany published. It solved Johann Jacob Dillens 1724 published third edition of John Ray's Synopsis methodica Stirpium Britannicarum from the standard work on the British flora and learned to Babington eight editions during his lifetime. In 1846 he published his Synopsis of the British Rubi, which marked the beginning of his lifelong exploration of the genus Rubus, which culminated in the publication of the book The British Rubi 1869. The proposed illustrations for the book by John William Salter (1820-1869) could not be realized due to its demise. Also in 1846 undertook Babington the only journey in which he left the British Isles and took him to Iceland.
On June 5, 1851 he was admitted as a member of the Royal Society, but never took a very active part in the activities of the company. In the years 1853, 1858 and 1861 was Babington President in charge of Botany and Zoology Section D of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1860, two hundred years after John Ray's Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium, Babington published his Flora of Cambridgeshire, who gave a detailed overview of the spread in Cambridgeshire plant species.
After the death of John Stevens Henslow Babington was appointed in 1861 as the successor to the chair of botany at the University of Cambridge. During this time he had a bigger building for the herbarium building and acquired for this, among others, the collections of John Lindley and Léon Gaston Genevier ( 1830-1880 ). On April 3, 1866 he married Anna Maria, daughter of John Walker from the Madras Civil Service.
Babington was interested in besides the Botany strong for archeology. He was one of the founders in 1840 launched Cambridge Antiquarian Society. In their publications, he has published more than 50 articles. He also became involved in the Cambrian Archaeological Association whose committee he chaired for thirty years, and which he was president in 1881. His most important published in 1851, archaeological font was entitled Ancient Cambridgeshire. She was an attempt to track down Roman roads and other ancient roads in Cambridgeshire. A greatly expanded edition published in 1883.
1891 Babington ill from acute pneumonia, which shortly followed by a rheumatic disease that will subsequently forced him to use a wheelchair. His lectures held representative for him from Francis Darwin. Charles Cardale Babington was buried on July 26, 1895 in the cemetery of Cherry Hinton. Its consists of about 1600 volumes library he bequeathed to the University of Cambridge.
Ehrentaxon
John Lindley named in his honor in 1842, the plant genus Babingtonia from the myrtle family.
Writings (selection )
- Flora Bathoniensis: or, a catalog of the plants indigenous to the vicinity of Bath. Bath / Bristol / London 1834 (online). Supplement to the Flora Bathoniensis. [ E. Collins, Bath 1839 ].
Babington published about 150 articles in various journals, including:
- Observations made falling on a Visit to Connemara and Joyce 's Country, Ireland, in August, 1835 In: . Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology. Volume 9, 1836, pp. 119-130 (online).
- Localities of several species of British Plants, In -observed falling on the Summer of 1835. Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology. Volume 9, 1836, pp. 243-246 (online).
- Descriptions Of Those species of Polygonum and Fagopyrum Which are contained in the Indian Herbarium of J. Forbes Royle, Esq., FLS, & c. , Late Superintendent of the HEI Botanical Garden at Saharunpore, and now Professor of Materia Medica in King's College, London. In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume 18, Number 1, June 1838, pp. 93-119 (online).
- A Synopsis of the British Rubi. In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Volume 17, Number 111, 1846, pp. 165-175 (online).
- A revision of the Flora of Iceland. In: Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany. Volume 11, Number 53 May 1870 pp. 282-348 (online).