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From C. C. Babington   16 October 1862

Cambridge

16 Oct. 1862

Dear Darwin

I am sorry that the very full occupation of the late meeting totally prevented me from attending to your wishes at the proper time.1

I believe however that now our Curator, Stratton, has sent you some of the seeds that you want and I hope that you will succeed in raising plants from them.2

We have none of the others that you want.

Yours very truly | Charles C. Babington—

Footnotes

See letter to C. C. Babington, 2 September [1862]. Babington was one of the three local secretaries for the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Cambridge from 1 to 8 October 1862 (Report of the 32d meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Cambridge, p. xxiii).

Bibliography

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

Believes the [Lythrum] seeds have been sent to CD by Stratton [Curator, Cambridge Botanic Garden]. They have none of the others requested.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3767
From
Charles Cardale Babington
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Cambridge
Source of text
DAR 160.1: 5
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3767,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3767.xml

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

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