From C. C. Babington 16 September 1862
Cambridge
16 Sept. 1862
Dear Darwin,
I hope to be able to get seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium from our Botan. Garden in a few days.1 The Curator2 has undertaken to look for them and I will send them when received.
You know that the British Association is to meet here on Oct 1. next and it would give great pleasure to many of us to see you here at that time.3 Could we have calculated upon your convenience and health allowing you to take the office we should have advised your being placed in the chair of the Sec. of Zool. & Botany.4 But, altho not in the position in which we would have placed you, nevertheless you might perhaps come for a few days as a private member of the Association. We want all eminent Cambridge-men to attend, and amongst these we place C. Darwin in the first class.5
Yours very truly | Charles C. Babington—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
Walters, Stuart Max. 1981. The shaping of Cambridge botany. A short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Summary
Hopes to have Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds to send soon.
BAAS is meeting in Cambridge and all eminent Cambridge men are wanted present. If his health were reliable, CD would be in chair of Botany and Zoology Section.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3726
- From
- Charles Cardale Babington
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 4
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3726,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3726.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10