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From C. C. Babington   30 January 1862

Cambridge

30. Ja⁠⟨⁠n. 186⁠⟩⁠2

Dear Darwin,

I send a few seeds; all that we have.1

I am told that Le Coq⁠⟨⁠,⁠⟩⁠ who has published a voluminous work on the Geograph. Distrib. of Europæan plants mentions not a few instances of apparent dimorphism.2

Yours truly | Charles C. Babington—

Footnotes

Lecoq 1854–8. CD had just finished ‘looking through’ this nine-volume work, and had derived from it a number of cases of apparent dimorphism (see letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862]); he had cited some of them in his letter to Babington of 20 January [1862]. There is an annotated copy of the work in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 488–95).

Bibliography

Lecoq, Henri. 1854–8. Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe et en particulier sur la végétation du plateau central de la France. 9 vols. Paris: J. B. Baillière.

Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.

Summary

Encloses seeds.

Lecoq’s work mentions instances of apparent dimorphism. [H. Lecoq, Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe, 9 vols. (1854–8).]

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3422
From
Charles Cardale Babington
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Cambridge
Source of text
DAR 160.1: 2
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3422,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3422.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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